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Re: [PATCH 1/1] mm: Fix struct page layout on 32-bit systems

From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Date: 2021-04-15 18:22:44
Also in: linux-arm-kernel, linux-mips, linux-mm, linuxppc-dev, lkml

On Thu, Apr 15, 2021 at 08:08:32PM +0200, Jesper Dangaard Brouer wrote:
+static inline
+dma_addr_t page_pool_dma_addr_read(dma_addr_t dma_addr)
+{
+	/* Workaround for storing 64-bit DMA-addr on 32-bit machines in struct
+	 * page.  The page->dma_addr share area with page->compound_head which
+	 * use bit zero to mark compound pages. This is okay, as DMA-addr are
+	 * aligned pointers which have bit zero cleared.
+	 *
+	 * In the 32-bit case, page->compound_head is 32-bit.  Thus, when
+	 * dma_addr_t is 64-bit it will be located in top 32-bit.  Solve by
+	 * swapping dma_addr 32-bit segments.
+	 */
+#ifdef CONFIG_ARCH_DMA_ADDR_T_64BIT
#if defined(CONFIG_ARCH_DMA_ADDR_T_64BIT) && defined(__BIG_ENDIAN)
otherwise you'll create the problem on ARM that you're avoiding on PPC ...

I think you want to delete the word '_read' from this function name because
you're using it for both read and write.
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