linux-kernel - [PATCH v2 6/7] arm64: Stop calling page_address() in free

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Message-ID: <20250826205617.1032945-7-vishal.moola@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2025 13:56:16 -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>,
	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
	Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>
Subject: [PATCH v2 6/7] arm64: 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/arm64/mm/mmu.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c b/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c
index 34e5d78af076..e14a75d0dbd3 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c
@@ -843,7 +843,7 @@ static void free_hotplug_page_range(struct page *page, size_t size,
 		vmem_altmap_free(altmap, size >> PAGE_SHIFT);
 	} else {
 		WARN_ON(PageReserved(page));
-		free_pages((unsigned long)page_address(page), get_order(size));
+		__free_pages(page, get_order(size));
 	}
 }
 
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