linux-kernel - [PATCH] [28/36] CPA: Remove unnecessary masking of address

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Message-Id: <20080116221528.288CB150C8@wotan.suse.de>
Date:	Wed, 16 Jan 2008 23:15:28 +0100 (CET)
From:	Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, mingo@...e.hu, tglx@...utronix.de,
	jbeulich@...ell.com, venkatesh.pallipadi@...el.com
Subject: [PATCH] [28/36] CPA: Remove unnecessary masking of address


virt_to_page does not care about the bits below the page granuality.
So don't mask them.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>
Acked-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@...ell.com>

---
 arch/x86/mm/pageattr_64.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Index: linux/arch/x86/mm/pageattr_64.c
===================================================================
--- linux.orig/arch/x86/mm/pageattr_64.c
+++ linux/arch/x86/mm/pageattr_64.c
@@ -204,7 +204,7 @@ __change_page_attr(unsigned long address
 
 	kpte = lookup_address(address, &level);
 	if (!kpte) return 0;
-	kpte_page = virt_to_page(((unsigned long)kpte) & PAGE_MASK);
+	kpte_page = virt_to_page(kpte);
 	BUG_ON(PageCompound(kpte_page));
 	BUG_ON(PageLRU(kpte_page));
 
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