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On Mon, 2 Dec 2019, Dennis Zhou wrote:

> I think typeof_cast_kernel() or typeof_force_kernel() are reasonable
> names. I kind of like the idea of cast/force over strip because we're
> really still moving address spaces even if it is moving it back.

I vote for typeof_cast_kernel()...

percpu addresses are more like an alias.... or more precisely an offset to
a base pointer (that already belongs to a certain "address space") and we
use the notion of a distinctly different "address space" in the linker to
categorize these references.