linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mm/memblock: replace u64 with phys_addr

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Date:   Tue, 3 Jul 2018 12:57:22 -0700
From:   Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:     Mike Rapoport <rppt@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:     linux-mm <linux-mm@...ck.org>, lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>,
        Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm/memblock: replace u64 with phys_addr_t where
 appropriate

On Tue,  3 Jul 2018 20:05:06 +0300 Mike Rapoport <rppt@...ux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:

> Most functions in memblock already use phys_addr_t to represent a physical
> address with __memblock_free_late() being an exception.
> 
> This patch replaces u64 with phys_addr_t in __memblock_free_late() and
> switches several format strings from %llx to %pa to avoid casting from
> phys_addr_t to u64.
>
> ...
> 
> @@ -1343,9 +1343,9 @@ void * __init memblock_virt_alloc_try_nid_raw(
>  {
>  	void *ptr;
>  
> -	memblock_dbg("%s: %llu bytes align=0x%llx nid=%d from=0x%llx max_addr=0x%llx %pF\n",
> -		     __func__, (u64)size, (u64)align, nid, (u64)min_addr,
> -		     (u64)max_addr, (void *)_RET_IP_);
> +	memblock_dbg("%s: %llu bytes align=0x%llx nid=%d from=%pa max_addr=%pa %pF\n",
> +		     __func__, (u64)size, (u64)align, nid, &min_addr,
> +		     &max_addr, (void *)_RET_IP_);
>  

Did you see all this checkpatch noise?

: WARNING: Deprecated vsprintf pointer extension '%pF' - use %pS instead
: #54: FILE: mm/memblock.c:1348:
: +	memblock_dbg("%s: %llu bytes align=0x%llx nid=%d from=%pa max_addr=%pa %pF\n",
: +		     __func__, (u64)size, (u64)align, nid, &min_addr,
: +		     &max_addr, (void *)_RET_IP_);
: ...
: 

 * - 'S' For symbolic direct pointers (or function descriptors) with offset
 * - 's' For symbolic direct pointers (or function descriptors) without offset
 * - 'F' Same as 'S'
 * - 'f' Same as 's'

I'm not sure why or when all that happened.

I suppose we should do that as a separate patch sometime.