Re: [PATCH] Fix virt_to_phys() warnings

[Andi Kleen]

Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> #define virt_to_page(kaddr)        pfn_to_page(PFN_DOWN(virt_to_phys(kaddr)))
>
> thereby passing an `unsigned long' where a void* was expected.
>
>
> So perhaps something along these lines:

I'm not quite sure it's the case on MIPS, but I remember on x86 one of
the reasons this was done as a macro was to avoid a include dependency
loop with struct page.

-Andi

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