linux-kernel - Re: [RFC] arm64:use set_fixmap

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Date:	Thu, 23 Jul 2015 14:03:44 +0100
From:	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
To:	yalin wang <yalin.wang2010@...il.com>
Cc:	will.deacon@....com, zlim.lnx@...il.com, punit.agrawal@....com,
	marc.zyngier@....com, lauraa@...eaurora.org, wcohen@...hat.com,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] arm64:use set_fixmap_offset to make it more clear

On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 07:45:53PM +0800, yalin wang wrote:
> A little change to patch_map() function,
> use set_fixmap_offset() to make code more clear.
> 
> Signed-off-by: yalin wang <yalin.wang2010@...il.com>
> ---
>  arch/arm64/kernel/insn.c | 5 ++---
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/insn.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/insn.c
> index dd9671c..7dafd5a 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/insn.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/insn.c
> @@ -101,9 +101,8 @@ static void __kprobes *patch_map(void *addr, int fixmap)
>  		return addr;
>  
>  	BUG_ON(!page);
> -	set_fixmap(fixmap, page_to_phys(page));
> -
> -	return (void *) (__fix_to_virt(fixmap) + (uintaddr & ~PAGE_MASK));
> +	return (void *)set_fixmap_offset(fixmap, page_to_phys(page) +
> +			(addr & ~PAGE_MASK));

It looks fine. Do you get any compiler warning for the automatic pointer
to long conversion? You may want to add some explicit casts, otherwise:

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