linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Fix virt_to

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Message-ID: <87bpo3bm0t.fsf@basil.nowhere.org>
Date:	Thu, 02 Jul 2009 09:07:46 +0200
From:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Kevin Cernekee <cernekee@...il.com>,
	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Ralf Baechle <ralf@...ux-mips.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix virt_to_phys() warnings

Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> writes:
>
> #define virt_to_page(kaddr)        pfn_to_page(PFN_DOWN(virt_to_phys(kaddr)))
>
> thereby passing an `unsigned long' where a void* was expected.
>
>
> So perhaps something along these lines:

I'm not quite sure it's the case on MIPS, but I remember on x86 one of
the reasons this was done as a macro was to avoid a include dependency
loop with struct page.

-Andi

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