Thread (16 messages) 16 messages, 6 authors, 2025-09-05

Re: [PATCH v3 3/7] x86: Stop calling page_address() in free_pages()

From: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Date: 2025-09-04 11:51:14
Also in: linux-arm-kernel, linux-block, linux-efi, linux-mm, linux-riscv, lkml, virtualization

On Wed, Sep 03, 2025 at 11:59:17AM -0700, Vishal Moola (Oracle) wrote:
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
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>
Acked-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
---
 arch/x86/mm/init_64.c          | 2 +-
 arch/x86/platform/efi/memmap.c | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c b/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c
index b9426fce5f3e..0e4270e20fad 100644
--- a/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c
@@ -1031,7 +1031,7 @@ static void __meminit free_pagetable(struct page *page, int order)
 		free_reserved_pages(page, nr_pages);
 #endif
 	} else {
-		free_pages((unsigned long)page_address(page), order);
+		__free_pages(page, order);
 	}
 }
 
diff --git a/arch/x86/platform/efi/memmap.c b/arch/x86/platform/efi/memmap.c
index 061b8ecc71a1..023697c88910 100644
--- a/arch/x86/platform/efi/memmap.c
+++ b/arch/x86/platform/efi/memmap.c
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ void __init __efi_memmap_free(u64 phys, unsigned long size, unsigned long flags)
 		struct page *p = pfn_to_page(PHYS_PFN(phys));
 		unsigned int order = get_order(size);
 
-		free_pages((unsigned long) page_address(p), order);
Could be just free_pages((unsigned long)phys_to_virt(phys), order), then
the page is not needed at all.
+		__free_pages(p, order);
 	}
 }
 
-- 
2.51.0
-- 
Sincerely yours,
Mike.
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