netdev - Re: [PATCH] xen/netback: Pass (void *) to virt_to

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Message-ID: <20230524221147.5791ba3a@kernel.org>
Date: Wed, 24 May 2023 22:11:47 -0700
From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>
Cc: Wei Liu <wei.liu@...nel.org>, Paul Durrant <paul@....org>,
 xen-devel@...ts.xenproject.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] xen/netback: Pass (void *) to virt_to_page()

On Tue, 23 May 2023 16:03:42 +0200 Linus Walleij wrote:
> virt_to_page() takes a virtual address as argument but
> the driver passes an unsigned long, which works because
> the target platform(s) uses polymorphic macros to calculate
> the page.
> 
> Since many architectures implement virt_to_pfn() as
> a macro, this function becomes polymorphic and accepts both a
> (unsigned long) and a (void *).
> 
> Fix this up by an explicit (void *) cast.

Paul, Wei, looks like netdev may be the usual path for this patch 
to flow thru, although I'm never 100% sure with Xen.
Please ack or LUK if you prefer to direct the patch elsewhere?