linux-kernel - [PATCH 5/7] powerpc: Stop calling page_address() in free

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Message-ID: <20250826193258.902608-6-vishal.moola@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2025 12:32:56 -0700
From: "Vishal Moola (Oracle)" <vishal.moola@...il.com>
To: linux-mm@...ck.org
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"Vishal Moola (Oracle)" <vishal.moola@...il.com>
Subject: [PATCH 5/7] powerpc: Stop calling page_address() in free_pages()

free_pages() should be used when we only have a virtual address. We
should call __free_pages() directly on our page instead.

Signed-off-by: Vishal Moola (Oracle) <vishal.moola@...il.com>
---
 arch/powerpc/mm/book3s64/radix_pgtable.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/book3s64/radix_pgtable.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/book3s64/radix_pgtable.c
index be523e5fe9c5..73977dbabcf2 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/mm/book3s64/radix_pgtable.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/book3s64/radix_pgtable.c
@@ -780,7 +780,7 @@ static void __meminit free_vmemmap_pages(struct page *page,
 		while (nr_pages--)
 			free_reserved_page(page++);
 	} else
-		free_pages((unsigned long)page_address(page), order);
+		__free_pages(page, order);
 }
 
 static void __meminit remove_pte_table(pte_t *pte_start, unsigned long addr,
-- 
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