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Message-Id: <20071119130801.bd7b7021.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 13:08:01 -0800
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...ymtl.ca>
Cc: haveblue@...ibm.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
linux-mm@...ck.org, mbligh@...gle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Cast page_to_pfn to unsigned long in CONFIG_SPARSEMEM
On Mon, 19 Nov 2007 15:20:23 -0500
Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...ymtl.ca> wrote:
> * Dave Hansen (haveblue@...ibm.com) wrote:
> > The only thing I might suggest doing differently is actually using the
> > page_to_pfn() definition itself:
> >
> > memory_model.h:#define page_to_pfn __page_to_pfn
> >
> > The full inline function version should do this already, and we
> > shouldn't have any real direct __page_to_pfn() users anyway.
> >
>
> Like this then..
>
> Cast page_to_pfn to unsigned long in CONFIG_SPARSEMEM
>
> Make sure the type returned by page_to_pfn is always unsigned long. If we
> don't cast it explicitly, it can be int on i386, but long on x86_64.
formally ptrdiff_t, I believe.
> This is
> especially inelegant for printks.
>
> Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...ymtl.ca>
> CC: Dave Hansen <haveblue@...ibm.com>
> CC: linux-mm@...ck.org
> CC: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
> ---
> include/asm-generic/memory_model.h | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> Index: linux-2.6-lttng/include/asm-generic/memory_model.h
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6-lttng.orig/include/asm-generic/memory_model.h 2007-11-19 15:06:40.000000000 -0500
> +++ linux-2.6-lttng/include/asm-generic/memory_model.h 2007-11-19 15:18:57.000000000 -0500
> @@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ struct page;
> extern struct page *pfn_to_page(unsigned long pfn);
> extern unsigned long page_to_pfn(struct page *page);
> #else
> -#define page_to_pfn __page_to_pfn
> +#define page_to_pfn ((unsigned long)__page_to_pfn)
> #define pfn_to_page __pfn_to_page
> #endif /* CONFIG_OUT_OF_LINE_PFN_TO_PAGE */
I'd have thought that __pfn_to_page() was the place to fix this: the
lower-level point. Because someone might later start using __pfn_to_page()
for something.
Heaven knows why though - why does __pfn_to_page() even exist?
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