Thread (9 messages) flat view 9 messages, 4 authors, 2023-08-23

Re: [PATCH] powerpc: Make virt_to_pfn() a static inline

From: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Date: 2023-08-15 07:32:07
Also in: kvm, lkml

Linus Walleij [off-list ref] writes:
Making virt_to_pfn() a static inline taking a strongly typed
(const void *) makes the contract of a passing a pointer of that
type to the function explicit and exposes any misuse of the
macro virt_to_pfn() acting polymorphic and accepting many types
such as (void *), (unitptr_t) or (unsigned long) as arguments
without warnings.

Move the virt_to_pfn() and related functions below the
declaration of __pa() so it compiles.

For symmetry do the same with pfn_to_kaddr().

As the file is included right into the linker file, we need
to surround the functions with ifndef __ASSEMBLY__ so we
don't cause compilation errors.

The conversion moreover exposes the fact that pmd_page_vaddr()
was returning an unsigned long rather than a const void * as
could be expected, so all the sites defining pmd_page_vaddr()
had to be augmented as well.
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quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/pgtable.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/pgtable.h
index 6a88bfdaa69b..a9515d3d7831 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/pgtable.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/pgtable.h
@@ -60,9 +60,9 @@ static inline pgprot_t pte_pgprot(pte_t pte)
 }
 
 #ifndef pmd_page_vaddr
-static inline unsigned long pmd_page_vaddr(pmd_t pmd)
+static inline const void *pmd_page_vaddr(pmd_t pmd)
 {
-	return ((unsigned long)__va(pmd_val(pmd) & ~PMD_MASKED_BITS));
+	return (const void *)((unsigned long)__va(pmd_val(pmd) & ~PMD_MASKED_BITS));
This can also just be:

	return __va(pmd_val(pmd) & ~PMD_MASKED_BITS);

I've squashed that in.

cheers
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