Re: Parenthize nth_page() macro arg, in linux/mm.h.

From: Al Viro
Date: Sun Nov 14 2004 - 01:20:15 EST


On Sat, Nov 13, 2004 at 10:10:16PM -0800, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 13, 2004 at 07:43:08PM +0000, Linux Kernel Mailing List wrote:
> > ChangeSet 1.2092.7.2, 2004/11/13 14:43:08-05:00, jgarzik@xxxxxxxxx
> > Parenthize nth_page() macro arg, in linux/mm.h.
> > mm.h | 2 +-
> > 1 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > diff -Nru a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h
> > --- a/include/linux/mm.h 2004-11-13 21:17:35 -08:00
> > +++ b/include/linux/mm.h 2004-11-13 21:17:35 -08:00
> > @@ -41,7 +41,7 @@
> > #define MM_VM_SIZE(mm) TASK_SIZE
> > #endif
> > -#define nth_page(page,n) pfn_to_page(page_to_pfn((page)) + n)
> > +#define nth_page(page,n) pfn_to_page(page_to_pfn((page)) + (n))
>
> Okay, #1 the ((page)) thing should be unnecessary. If it is necessary,
> arch code is broken, which leads to #2: this came about because alpha
> wasn't parenthesizing its args in pfn_to_page(); where did the fix for
> that go?

In my tree; I'm preparing -bk23-bird1 right now, will post in an hour or so.
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