linux-kernel - Fix stupid bug in subpge protection handling

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Message-ID: <20091217002956.GQ9463@yookeroo>
Date:	Thu, 17 Dec 2009 11:29:56 +1100
From:	David Gibson <dwg@....ibm.com>
To:	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@....ibm.com>,
	linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Sachin Sant <sachinp@...ibm.com>,
	". Jan-Bernd Themann" <THEMANN@...ibm.com>,
	Thomas Q Klein <TKLEIN@...ibm.com>
Subject: Fix stupid bug in subpge protection handling

Commit d28513bc7f675d28b479db666d572e078ecf182d ("Fix bug in pagetable
cache cleanup with CONFIG_PPC_SUBPAGE_PROT"), itself a fix for
breakage caused by an earlier clean up patch of mine, contains a
stupid bug.  I changed the parameters of the subpage_protection()
function, but failed to update one of the callers.

This patch fixes it, and replaces a void * with a typed pointer so
that the compiler will warn on such an error in future.

Signed-off-by: David Gibson <dwg@....ibm.com>

Index: working-2.6/arch/powerpc/mm/hash_utils_64.c
===================================================================
--- working-2.6.orig/arch/powerpc/mm/hash_utils_64.c	2009-12-16 11:43:51.357324268 +1100
+++ working-2.6/arch/powerpc/mm/hash_utils_64.c	2009-12-16 11:44:35.473351990 +1100
@@ -879,7 +879,7 @@ static inline int subpage_protection(str
  */
 int hash_page(unsigned long ea, unsigned long access, unsigned long trap)
 {
-	void *pgdir;
+	pgd_t *pgdir;
 	unsigned long vsid;
 	struct mm_struct *mm;
 	pte_t *ptep;
@@ -1025,7 +1025,7 @@ int hash_page(unsigned long ea, unsigned
 	else
 #endif /* CONFIG_PPC_HAS_HASH_64K */
 	{
-		int spp = subpage_protection(pgdir, ea);
+		int spp = subpage_protection(mm, ea);
 		if (access & spp)
 			rc = -2;
 		else


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