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[PATCH v3 5/7] powerpc: Stop calling page_address() in free_pages()

From: Vishal Moola (Oracle) <hidden>
Date: 2025-09-03 18:59:43
Also in: linux-arm-kernel, linux-block, linux-efi, linux-mm, linux-riscv, lkml, virtualization
Subsystem: linux for powerpc (32-bit and 64-bit), the rest · Maintainers: Madhavan Srinivasan, Michael Ellerman, Linus Torvalds

free_pages() should be used when we only have a virtual address. We
should call __free_pages() directly on our page instead.

Signed-off-by: Vishal Moola (Oracle) <redacted>
Reviewed-by: Ritesh Harjani (IBM) <ritesh.list@gmail.com>
---
 arch/powerpc/mm/book3s64/radix_pgtable.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/book3s64/radix_pgtable.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/book3s64/radix_pgtable.c
index be523e5fe9c5..73977dbabcf2 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/mm/book3s64/radix_pgtable.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/book3s64/radix_pgtable.c
@@ -780,7 +780,7 @@ static void __meminit free_vmemmap_pages(struct page *page,
 		while (nr_pages--)
 			free_reserved_page(page++);
 	} else
-		free_pages((unsigned long)page_address(page), order);
+		__free_pages(page, order);
 }
 
 static void __meminit remove_pte_table(pte_t *pte_start, unsigned long addr,
-- 
2.51.0

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