Re: [PATCH v2 15/15] x86: convert to setup_initial_init_mm()

[Andrew Morton]

On Fri, 4 Jun 2021 15:06:33 +0800 Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Use setup_initial_init_mm() helper to simplify code.
> 
> ...
>
> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c
> @@ -868,10 +868,7 @@ void __init setup_arch(char **cmdline_p)
>  
>  	if (!boot_params.hdr.root_flags)
>  		root_mountflags &= ~MS_RDONLY;
> -	init_mm.start_code = (unsigned long) _text;
> -	init_mm.end_code = (unsigned long) _etext;
> -	init_mm.end_data = (unsigned long) _edata;
> -	init_mm.brk = _brk_end;
> +	setup_initial_init_mm(_text, _etext, _edata, _brk_end);
>  
>  	code_resource.start = __pa_symbol(_text);
>  	code_resource.end = __pa_symbol(_etext)-1;

arch/x86/kernel/setup.c:873:47: warning: passing argument 4 of 'setup_initial_init_mm' makes pointer from integer without a cast [-Wint-conversion]
  873 |  setup_initial_init_mm(_text, _etext, _edata, _brk_end);
      |                                               ^~~~~~~~
      |                                               |
      |                                               long unsigned int
In file included from ./include/linux/pid_namespace.h:7,
                 from ./include/linux/ptrace.h:10,
                 from ./include/linux/elfcore.h:11,
                 from ./include/linux/crash_core.h:6,
                 from ./include/linux/kexec.h:18,
                 from ./include/linux/crash_dump.h:5,
                 from arch/x86/kernel/setup.c:9:
./include/linux/mm.h:248:29: note: expected 'void *' but argument is of type 'long unsigned int'
  248 |       void *end_data, void *brk);
      |                       ~~~~~~^~~


afaict the other architectures will warn this way, not sure.

Please check all that, refresh ,retest and resend?