linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 5/7] powerpc: Stop calling page_address() in free

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Message-ID: <87plcakf4v.fsf@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 01 Sep 2025 09:17:44 +0530
From: Ritesh Harjani (IBM) <ritesh.list@...il.com>
To: "Vishal Moola (Oracle)" <vishal.moola@...il.com>, linux-mm@...ck.org
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, "Vishal Moola (Oracle)" <vishal.moola@...il.com>, Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@...ux.ibm.com>, Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>, linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 5/7] powerpc: Stop calling page_address() in free_pages()


Hi Vishal,

"Vishal Moola (Oracle)" <vishal.moola@...il.com> writes:

> 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(-)

Please also cc the respective subsystem mailing list if the changes span
in their area. In this case that would be linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org
( I did it this time )


Thanks for doing the cleanup. Yes, it makes no sense to do page_address()
here and then free_pages() doing virt_to_page() internally.. 

The change looks good to me. Please feel free to add:

Reviewed-by: Ritesh Harjani (IBM) <ritesh.list@...il.com>

>
> 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,
> -- 
> 2.51.0