linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mm: huge_pte_offset() returns pte

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Date:   Tue, 29 Oct 2019 09:35:57 -0300
From:   Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...pe.ca>
To:     Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@...cle.com>
Cc:     "Ben Dooks (Codethink)" <ben.dooks@...ethink.co.uk>,
        linux-kernel@...ts.codethink.co.uk, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: huge_pte_offset() returns pte_t *, not integer

On Mon, Oct 28, 2019 at 02:55:13PM -0700, Mike Kravetz wrote:

> > diff --git a/include/linux/hugetlb.h b/include/linux/hugetlb.h
> > index 53fc34f930d0..e42c76aa1577 100644
> > --- a/include/linux/hugetlb.h
> > +++ b/include/linux/hugetlb.h
> > @@ -185,7 +185,7 @@ static inline void hugetlb_show_meminfo(void)
> >  #define hugetlb_free_pgd_range(tlb, addr, end, floor, ceiling) ({BUG(); 0; })
> >  #define hugetlb_mcopy_atomic_pte(dst_mm, dst_pte, dst_vma, dst_addr, \
> >  				src_addr, pagep)	({ BUG(); 0; })
> > -#define huge_pte_offset(mm, address, sz)	0
> > +#define huge_pte_offset(mm, address, sz)	(pte_t *)NULL

We have recently been converting functions like this to static
inlines, maybe that is more appropriate for this block of 'functions'
as well?

Jason