Re: irq-disabled vs vmap vs text_poke

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Tue, 2009-02-17 at 04:03 +0100, Nick Piggin wrote:

> It is not a bad idea, but I don't think it quite goes far enough.
> IMO we should reserve 2 pages of virtual memory for each CPU, and
> then do the mapping/unmapping without locking, and with another
> variant of unmap_kernel_range that does not do the global TLB
> flush.

A bit like kmap_atomic() except for 2 pages and !highmem. Should work.

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