[3.11.y.z extended stable] Patch "mm: Make {, set}page_address() static inline if WANT_PAGE_VIRTUAL" has been added to staging queue

Luis Henriques luis.henriques at canonical.com
Wed Feb 5 13:11:24 UTC 2014


This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    mm: Make {,set}page_address() static inline if WANT_PAGE_VIRTUAL

to the linux-3.11.y-queue branch of the 3.11.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.11.y-queue

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.11.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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>From ab8f060b5805429969bcd8cccc47c056b65148a3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert at linux-m68k.org>
Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2014 15:48:47 -0800
Subject: mm: Make {,set}page_address() static inline if WANT_PAGE_VIRTUAL

commit f92f455f67fef27929e6043499414605b0c94872 upstream.

{,set}page_address() are macros if WANT_PAGE_VIRTUAL.  If
!WANT_PAGE_VIRTUAL, they're plain C functions.

If someone calls them with a void *, this pointer is auto-converted to
struct page * if !WANT_PAGE_VIRTUAL, but causes a build failure on
architectures using WANT_PAGE_VIRTUAL (arc, m68k and sparc64):

  drivers/md/bcache/bset.c: In function `__btree_sort':
  drivers/md/bcache/bset.c:1190: warning: dereferencing `void *' pointer
  drivers/md/bcache/bset.c:1190: error: request for member `virtual' in something not a structure or union

Convert them to static inline functions to fix this.  There are already
plenty of users of struct page members inside <linux/mm.h>, so there's
no reason to keep them as macros.

Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert at linux-m68k.org>
Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst at redhat.com>
Tested-by: Guenter Roeck <linux at roeck-us.net>
Tested-by: David Rientjes <rientjes at google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm at linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds at linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 include/linux/mm.h | 13 ++++++++-----
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h
index f022460..a6154b1 100644
--- a/include/linux/mm.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm.h
@@ -769,11 +769,14 @@ static __always_inline void *lowmem_page_address(const struct page *page)
 #endif

 #if defined(WANT_PAGE_VIRTUAL)
-#define page_address(page) ((page)->virtual)
-#define set_page_address(page, address)			\
-	do {						\
-		(page)->virtual = (address);		\
-	} while(0)
+static inline void *page_address(const struct page *page)
+{
+	return page->virtual;
+}
+static inline void set_page_address(struct page *page, void *address)
+{
+	page->virtual = address;
+}
 #define page_address_init()  do { } while(0)
 #endif

--
1.8.3.2





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