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Message-ID: <20140508110527.GE17344@arm.com>
Date:	Thu, 8 May 2014 12:05:27 +0100
From:	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
To:	Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@...citrix.com>
Cc:	David Vrabel <david.vrabel@...rix.com>,
	Julien Grall <julien.grall@...aro.org>,
	"linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org" 
	<linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"xen-devel@...ts.xenproject.org" <xen-devel@...ts.xenproject.org>,
	Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@...rix.com>,
	"konrad.wilk@...cle.com" <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] arm/xen: Remove definiition of virt_to_pfn in
 asm/xen/page.h

On Wed, May 07, 2014 at 05:58:21PM +0100, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
> On Wed, 7 May 2014, David Vrabel wrote:
> > On 07/05/14 12:41, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
> > > On Fri, 25 Apr 2014, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
> > >> On Thu, 24 Apr 2014, David Vrabel wrote:
> > >>> On 24/04/14 13:49, Julien Grall wrote:
> > >>>> Hi David,
> > >>>>
> > >>>> On 04/24/2014 01:22 PM, David Vrabel wrote:
> > >>>>> On 18/04/14 16:54, Julien Grall wrote:
> > >>>>>> virt_to_pfn has been defined in asm/memory.h by the commit e26a9e0 "ARM: Better
> > >>>>>> virt_to_page() handling"
> > >>>>>>
> > >>>>>> This will result of a compilation warning when CONFIG_XEN is enabled.
> > >>>>>>
> > >>>>>> arch/arm/include/asm/xen/page.h:80:0: warning: "virt_to_pfn" redefined [enabled by default]
> > >>>>>>  #define virt_to_pfn(v)          (PFN_DOWN(__pa(v)))
> > >>>>>>  ^
> > >>>>>> In file included from arch/arm/include/asm/page.h:163:0,
> > >>>>>>                  from arch/arm/include/asm/xen/page.h:4,
> > >>>>>>                  from include/xen/page.h:4,
> > >>>>>>                  from arch/arm/xen/grant-table.c:33:
> > >>>>>>
> > >>>>>> The definition in memory.h is nearly the same (it directly expand PFN_DOWN),
> > >>>>>> so we can safely drop virt_to_pfn in xen include.
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>> This breaks the arm build for me.
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>> /local/davidvr/work/k.org/tip/drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c: In function
> > >>>>> ‘setup_blkring’:
> > >>>>> /local/davidvr/work/k.org/tip/drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c:1236:2:
> > >>>>> error: implicit declaration of function ‘virt_to_pfn’
> > >>>>> [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
> > >>>>>   err = xenbus_grant_ring(dev, virt_to_mfn(info->ring.sring));
> > >>>>>   ^
> > >>>>
> > >>>> I don't have any issue to build the following branch with this patch on:
> > >>>> 	- v3.15-rc2
> > >>>> 	- xentip master
> > >>>> 	- xentip for-linus-3.16
> > >>>
> > >>> Applied to devel/for-linus-3.16.
> > >>>
> > >>> If something else turns up for 3.15 (and I remember) I'll take it for
> > >>> 3.15 instead.
> > >>
> > >> David,
> > >> thank you very much for taking the patch in my absence.
> > >>
> > >> Considering that the problem is affecting everybody enabling CONFIG_XEN
> > >> on ARM on v3.15, I don't think we can wait for the next merge window to
> > >> send this fix upstream.
> > >> Too many warnings for too many people.
> > > 
> > > Unfortunately this commit breaks arm64 compilation, as virt_to_pfn has
> > > not been introduced to arm64/include/asm/memory.h.
> > > Has the patch been sent upstream yet?
> > 
> > No.
> > 
> > > We need this additional change for arm64:
> > > 
> > > diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/memory.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/memory.h
> > > index e94f945..993bce5 100644
> > > --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/memory.h
> > > +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/memory.h
> > > @@ -138,6 +138,7 @@ static inline void *phys_to_virt(phys_addr_t x)
> > >  #define __pa(x)			__virt_to_phys((unsigned long)(x))
> > >  #define __va(x)			((void *)__phys_to_virt((phys_addr_t)(x)))
> > >  #define pfn_to_kaddr(pfn)	__va((pfn) << PAGE_SHIFT)
> > > +#define virt_to_pfn(x)      __phys_to_pfn(__virt_to_phys(x))
> > 
> > This would need an ack from an arm64 maintainer.
> 
> Certainly. Catalin is in CC.

Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
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