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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: ira.weiny@intel.com
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] highmem: Document kunmap_local()
Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2022 04:28:53 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Ye6bhQG6b6caYurD@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220124013045.806718-1-ira.weiny@intel.com>

On Sun, Jan 23, 2022 at 05:30:44PM -0800, ira.weiny@intel.com wrote:
> + * __addr is often an address returned from kmap_local_page().  However,
> + * this address can be any address within the mapped page.  It does not need to
> + * be the exact address returned from kmap_local_page()
> + */

I'd word this a little different:

> + * __addr is often an address returned from kmap_local_page().  However,
> + * this address can be any address within the mapped page.  It does not need to
> + * be the exact address returned from kmap_local_page()
> + */

 * @__addr can be any address within the mapped page.  Commonly it is the
 * address return from kmap_local_page(), but it can also include offsets.

But documenting this definitively is a good idea!


  reply	other threads:[~2022-01-24 12:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-01-24  1:30 ira.weiny
2022-01-24 12:28 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2022-01-24 18:21   ` [PATCH V2] " ira.weiny

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