linux-kernel - RE: [PATCH] um: Replace to_phys() and to_virt() with less generic function names

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Date:   Thu, 14 Jul 2022 13:23:45 -0700
From:   Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>
To:     Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>,
        Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>
CC:     Anton Ivanov <anton.ivanov@...bridgegreys.com>,
        Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        <linux-um@...ts.infradead.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>,
        Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>,
        "Christoph Hellwig" <hch@....de>, <jane.chu@...cle.com>
Subject: RE: [PATCH] um: Replace to_phys() and to_virt() with less generic
 function names

[ add Jane ]

Guenter Roeck wrote:
> to_virt() and to_phys() are very generic and may be defined by drivers.
> As it turns out, commit 9409c9b6709e ("pmem: refactor pmem_clear_poison()")
> did exactly that. This results in build errors such as the following
> when trying to build um:allmodconfig.
> 
> drivers/nvdimm/pmem.c: In function ‘pmem_dax_zero_page_range’:
> ./arch/um/include/asm/page.h:105:20: error:
> 			too few arguments to function ‘to_phys’
>   105 | #define __pa(virt) to_phys((void *) (unsigned long) (virt))
>       |                    ^~~~~~~
> 
> Use less generic function names for the um specific to_phys() and to_virt()
> functions to fix the problem and to avoid similar problems in the future.
> 
> Fixes: 9409c9b6709e ("pmem: refactor pmem_clear_poison()")
> Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>
> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>

Acked-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>

Jane had sent a pmem local fixup, that I was about to push to linux-next:

https://lore.kernel.org/nvdimm/20220630182802.3250449-1-jane.chu@oracle.com/

...but I like this one too, lets do both.

> Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>
> ---
>  arch/um/include/asm/page.h      | 4 ++--
>  arch/um/include/shared/mem.h    | 4 ++--
>  arch/um/os-Linux/skas/process.c | 6 +++---
>  3 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)