Commit 67589c71 authored by Dave Young's avatar Dave Young Committed by Tejun Heo

percpu: explain why per_cpu_ptr_to_phys() is more complicated than necessary

Add comments about current per_cpu_ptr_to_phys implementation to
explain why the logic is more complicated than necessary.

-tj: relocated comment into kerneldoc comment
Signed-off-by: default avatarDave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
parent a855b84c
......@@ -978,6 +978,17 @@ bool is_kernel_percpu_address(unsigned long addr)
* address. The caller is responsible for ensuring @addr stays valid
* until this function finishes.
*
* percpu allocator has special setup for the first chunk, which currently
* supports either embedding in linear address space or vmalloc mapping,
* and, from the second one, the backing allocator (currently either vm or
* km) provides translation.
*
* The addr can be tranlated simply without checking if it falls into the
* first chunk. But the current code reflects better how percpu allocator
* actually works, and the verification can discover both bugs in percpu
* allocator itself and per_cpu_ptr_to_phys() callers. So we keep current
* code.
*
* RETURNS:
* The physical address for @addr.
*/
......
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