Re: [PATCH v2 2/9] mm: move __phys_to_pfn and __pfn_to_phys to asm/generic/memory_model.h

From: Tyler Baker
Date: Tue Sep 29 2015 - 15:36:59 EST


On 29 September 2015 at 12:21, Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Aug 2015, Dan Williams wrote:
>
>> From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
>>
>> Three architectures already define these, and we'll need them genericly
>> soon.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
>> Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> arch/arm/include/asm/memory.h | 6 ------
>> arch/arm64/include/asm/memory.h | 6 ------
>> arch/unicore32/include/asm/memory.h | 6 ------
>> include/asm-generic/memory_model.h | 6 ++++++
>> 4 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/memory.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/memory.h
>> index b7f6fb462ea0..98d58bb04ac5 100644
>> --- a/arch/arm/include/asm/memory.h
>> +++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/memory.h
>> @@ -119,12 +119,6 @@
>> #endif
>>
>> /*
>> - * Convert a physical address to a Page Frame Number and back
>> - */
>> -#define __phys_to_pfn(paddr) ((unsigned long)((paddr) >> PAGE_SHIFT))
>> -#define __pfn_to_phys(pfn) ((phys_addr_t)(pfn) << PAGE_SHIFT)
>> -
>> -/*
>> * Convert a page to/from a physical address
>> */
>> #define page_to_phys(page) (__pfn_to_phys(page_to_pfn(page)))
>
> [...]
>
>> diff --git a/include/asm-generic/memory_model.h b/include/asm-generic/memory_model.h
>> index 14909b0b9cae..f20f407ce45d 100644
>> --- a/include/asm-generic/memory_model.h
>> +++ b/include/asm-generic/memory_model.h
>> @@ -69,6 +69,12 @@
>> })
>> #endif /* CONFIG_FLATMEM/DISCONTIGMEM/SPARSEMEM */
>>
>> +/*
>> + * Convert a physical address to a Page Frame Number and back
>> + */
>> +#define __phys_to_pfn(paddr) ((unsigned long)((paddr) >> PAGE_SHIFT))
>> +#define __pfn_to_phys(pfn) ((pfn) << PAGE_SHIFT)
>> +
>
> This patch, currently in mainline as commit 012dcef3f0, breaks LPAE on
> ARM32 with more than 4GB of RAM. The phys_addr_t cast in the original
> ARM definition is important when LPAE is enabled as phys_addr_t is 64
> bits while longs are 32 bits.

Dan sent my fix above to Linus already, which is in mainline as commit
ae4f97696889.

Cheers,

Tyler
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