Re: [PATCH 0/2] sparc32: srmmu: improve type safety of __nocache_fix()

From: Mike Rapoport
Date: Fri Jun 26 2020 - 14:17:21 EST


Any comments on this?

On Sun, May 24, 2020 at 07:21:49PM +0300, Mike Rapoport wrote:
> From: Mike Rapoport <rppt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Hi,
>
> As discussed at [1] the __nocache_fix() macro in sparc's SRMMU can be made
> type safe and so the compiler will yell anout misuse of pXd pointers for
> which the __nocache_fix() is primarily used.
>
> The first patch is an fix of such misuse that I've discovered after adding
> type cast to __nocache_fix(), but to avoid breaking bisection I've made it
> the first commit.
>
> --
> Sincerely yours,
> Mike.
>
> [1] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/CAHk-=wisORTa7QVPnFqNw9pFs62UiwgsD4C4d=MtYy1o4JPyGQ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> Mike Rapoport (2):
> sparc32: use PUD rather than PGD to get PMD in srmmu_inherit_prom_mappings()
> sparc32: srmmu: improve type safety of __nocache_fix()
>
> arch/sparc/include/asm/pgtsrmmu.h | 2 +-
> arch/sparc/mm/srmmu.c | 18 +++++++++---------
> 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
>
> --
> 2.26.2
>

--
Sincerely yours,
Mike.