Re: [PATCH] arm/xen: Remove definiition of virt_to_pfn in asm/xen/page.h

From: Stefano Stabellini
Date: Wed May 07 2014 - 07:42:25 EST


On Fri, 25 Apr 2014, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
> On Thu, 24 Apr 2014, David Vrabel wrote:
> > On 24/04/14 13:49, Julien Grall wrote:
> > > Hi David,
> > >
> > > On 04/24/2014 01:22 PM, David Vrabel wrote:
> > >> On 18/04/14 16:54, Julien Grall wrote:
> > >>> virt_to_pfn has been defined in asm/memory.h by the commit e26a9e0 "ARM: Better
> > >>> virt_to_page() handling"
> > >>>
> > >>> This will result of a compilation warning when CONFIG_XEN is enabled.
> > >>>
> > >>> arch/arm/include/asm/xen/page.h:80:0: warning: "virt_to_pfn" redefined [enabled by default]
> > >>> #define virt_to_pfn(v) (PFN_DOWN(__pa(v)))
> > >>> ^
> > >>> In file included from arch/arm/include/asm/page.h:163:0,
> > >>> from arch/arm/include/asm/xen/page.h:4,
> > >>> from include/xen/page.h:4,
> > >>> from arch/arm/xen/grant-table.c:33:
> > >>>
> > >>> The definition in memory.h is nearly the same (it directly expand PFN_DOWN),
> > >>> so we can safely drop virt_to_pfn in xen include.
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> This breaks the arm build for me.
> > >>
> > >> /local/davidvr/work/k.org/tip/drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c: In function
> > >> âsetup_blkringâ:
> > >> /local/davidvr/work/k.org/tip/drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c:1236:2:
> > >> error: implicit declaration of function âvirt_to_pfnâ
> > >> [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
> > >> err = xenbus_grant_ring(dev, virt_to_mfn(info->ring.sring));
> > >> ^
> > >
> > > I don't have any issue to build the following branch with this patch on:
> > > - v3.15-rc2
> > > - xentip master
> > > - xentip for-linus-3.16
> >
> > Applied to devel/for-linus-3.16.
> >
> > If something else turns up for 3.15 (and I remember) I'll take it for
> > 3.15 instead.
>
> David,
> thank you very much for taking the patch in my absence.
>
> Considering that the problem is affecting everybody enabling CONFIG_XEN
> on ARM on v3.15, I don't think we can wait for the next merge window to
> send this fix upstream.
> Too many warnings for too many people.

Unfortunately this commit breaks arm64 compilation, as virt_to_pfn has
not been introduced to arm64/include/asm/memory.h.
Has the patch been sent upstream yet?

We need this additional change for arm64:


diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/memory.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/memory.h
index e94f945..993bce5 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/memory.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/memory.h
@@ -138,6 +138,7 @@ static inline void *phys_to_virt(phys_addr_t x)
#define __pa(x) __virt_to_phys((unsigned long)(x))
#define __va(x) ((void *)__phys_to_virt((phys_addr_t)(x)))
#define pfn_to_kaddr(pfn) __va((pfn) << PAGE_SHIFT)
+#define virt_to_pfn(x) __phys_to_pfn(__virt_to_phys(x))

/*
* virt_to_page(k) convert a _valid_ virtual address to struct page *