Re: [PATCH v3 12/12] m68k/mm: Make pfn accessors static inlines

From: Geert Uytterhoeven
Date: Wed May 24 2023 - 06:15:10 EST


On Tue, May 23, 2023 at 4:05 PM Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Making virt_to_pfn() a static inline taking a strongly typed
> (const void *) makes the contract of a passing a pointer of that
> type to the function explicit and exposes any misuse of the
> macro virt_to_pfn() acting polymorphic and accepting many types
> such as (void *), (unitptr_t) or (unsigned long) as arguments
> without warnings.
>
> For symmetry, do the same with pfn_to_virt().
>
> Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

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