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Date:	Wed, 17 Apr 2013 00:01:18 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
To:	Libin <huawei.libin@...wei.com>
cc:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	David Airlie <airlied@...ux.ie>,
	Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>,
	"Hans J. Koch" <hjk@...sjkoch.de>,
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	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/6] char: use vma_pages() to replace (vm_end - vm_start)
 >> PAGE_SHIFT

On Mon, 15 Apr 2013, Libin wrote:

> diff --git a/drivers/char/mspec.c b/drivers/char/mspec.c
> index e1f60f9..ed0703f 100644
> --- a/drivers/char/mspec.c
> +++ b/drivers/char/mspec.c
> @@ -168,7 +168,7 @@ mspec_close(struct vm_area_struct *vma)
>  	if (!atomic_dec_and_test(&vdata->refcnt))
>  		return;
>  
> -	last_index = (vdata->vm_end - vdata->vm_start) >> PAGE_SHIFT;
> +	last_index = vma_pages(vdata);
>  	for (index = 0; index < last_index; index++) {
>  		if (vdata->maddr[index] == 0)
>  			continue;

vdata is of type struct vma_data * and vma_pages() takes a formal of type 
struct vm_area_struct *, so these are incompatible.  Hopefully you tested 
the other changes and simply lack an ia64 cross compiler for this one, 
because it will emit a warning.
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