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Message-ID: <ZF4YfJ8322Oi5rmT@arm.com>
Date:   Fri, 12 May 2023 11:44:12 +0100
From:   Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
To:     Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>
Cc:     Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>,
        Vineet Gupta <vgupta@...nel.org>,
        Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        Russell King <linux@...linux.org.uk>,
        Greg Ungerer <gerg@...ux-m68k.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-m68k@...ts.linux-m68k.org,
        linux-snps-arc@...ts.infradead.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-cifs@...r.kernel.org, samba-technical@...ts.samba.org,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-arch@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 11/12] arm64: memory: Make virt_to_pfn() a static inline

On Thu, May 11, 2023 at 01:59:28PM +0200, Linus Walleij wrote:
> Making virt_to_pfn() a static inline taking a strongly typed
> (const void *) makes the contract of a passing a pointer of that
> type to the function explicit and exposes any misuse of the
> macro virt_to_pfn() acting polymorphic and accepting many types
> such as (void *), (unitptr_t) or (unsigned long) as arguments
> without warnings.
> 
> Since arm64 is using <asm-generic/memory_model.h> to provide
> __phys_to_pfn() we need to move the inclusion of that header
> up, so we can resolve the static inline at compile time.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>

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