Re: [PATCH] [v2] drm/pagemap: pass pagemap_addr by reference

From: Thomas Hellström

Date: Tue Feb 17 2026 - 07:21:35 EST


On Mon, 2026-02-16 at 14:59 +0100, Thomas Hellström wrote:
> On Mon, 2026-02-16 at 14:46 +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Passing a structure by value into a function is sometimes
> > problematic,
> > for a number of reasons. Of of these is a warning from the 32-bit
> > arm
> > compiler:
> >
> > drivers/gpu/drm/drm_gpusvm.c: In function
> > '__drm_gpusvm_unmap_pages':
> > drivers/gpu/drm/drm_gpusvm.c:1152:33: note: parameter passing for
> > argument of type 'struct drm_pagemap_addr' changed in GCC 9.1
> >  1152 |                                 dpagemap->ops-
> > > device_unmap(dpagemap,
> >       |                                
> > ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> >  1153 |                                                            
> > dev, *addr);
> >       |                                                            
> > ~~~~~~~~~~~
> >
> > This particular problem is harmless since we are not mixing
> > compiler
> > versions
> > inside of the compiler. However, passing this by reference avoids
> > the
> > warning
> > along with providing slightly better calling conventions as it
> > avoids
> > an
> > extra copy on the stack.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
>
> Thanks.
>
> Reviewed-by: Thomas Hellström <thomas.hellstrom@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Will push to drm-misc-fixes once CI is complete.

Merged to drm-xe-next. Will likely appear after the next drm-xe-fixes
PR in 7.0-rc2.

Thanks,
Thomas



>
> /Thomas
>
>
> > ---
> >  drivers/gpu/drm/drm_gpusvm.c  | 2 +-
> >  drivers/gpu/drm/drm_pagemap.c | 2 +-
> >  drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_svm.c   | 8 ++++----
> >  include/drm/drm_pagemap.h     | 2 +-
> >  4 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_gpusvm.c
> > b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_gpusvm.c
> > index c25f50cad6fe..81626b00b755 100644
> > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_gpusvm.c
> > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_gpusvm.c
> > @@ -1150,7 +1150,7 @@ static void __drm_gpusvm_unmap_pages(struct
> > drm_gpusvm *gpusvm,
> >          addr->dir);
> >   else if (dpagemap && dpagemap->ops-
> > > device_unmap)
> >   dpagemap->ops-
> > > device_unmap(dpagemap,
> > -     dev,
> > *addr);
> > +     dev,
> > addr);
> >   i += 1 << addr->order;
> >   }
> >  
> > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_pagemap.c
> > b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_pagemap.c
> > index d0041c947a28..22579806c055 100644
> > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_pagemap.c
> > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_pagemap.c
> > @@ -318,7 +318,7 @@ static void
> > drm_pagemap_migrate_unmap_pages(struct device *dev,
> >   struct drm_pagemap_zdd *zdd = page-
> > > zone_device_data;
> >   struct drm_pagemap *dpagemap = zdd-
> > > dpagemap;
> >  
> > - dpagemap->ops->device_unmap(dpagemap, dev,
> > pagemap_addr[i]);
> > + dpagemap->ops->device_unmap(dpagemap, dev,
> > &pagemap_addr[i]);
> >   } else {
> >   dma_unmap_page(dev, pagemap_addr[i].addr,
> >          PAGE_SIZE <<
> > pagemap_addr[i].order, dir);
> > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_svm.c
> > b/drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_svm.c
> > index 213f0334518a..78f4b2c60670 100644
> > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_svm.c
> > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_svm.c
> > @@ -1676,13 +1676,13 @@ xe_drm_pagemap_device_map(struct
> > drm_pagemap
> > *dpagemap,
> >  
> >  static void xe_drm_pagemap_device_unmap(struct drm_pagemap
> > *dpagemap,
> >   struct device *dev,
> > - struct drm_pagemap_addr
> > addr)
> > + const struct
> > drm_pagemap_addr *addr)
> >  {
> > - if (addr.proto != XE_INTERCONNECT_P2P)
> > + if (addr->proto != XE_INTERCONNECT_P2P)
> >   return;
> >  
> > - dma_unmap_resource(dev, addr.addr, PAGE_SIZE <<
> > addr.order,
> > -    addr.dir, DMA_ATTR_SKIP_CPU_SYNC);
> > + dma_unmap_resource(dev, addr->addr, PAGE_SIZE << addr-
> > > order,
> > +    addr->dir, DMA_ATTR_SKIP_CPU_SYNC);
> >  }
> >  
> >  static void xe_pagemap_destroy_work(struct work_struct *work)
> > diff --git a/include/drm/drm_pagemap.h b/include/drm/drm_pagemap.h
> > index 2baf0861f78f..c848f578e3da 100644
> > --- a/include/drm/drm_pagemap.h
> > +++ b/include/drm/drm_pagemap.h
> > @@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ struct drm_pagemap_ops {
> >   */
> >   void (*device_unmap)(struct drm_pagemap *dpagemap,
> >        struct device *dev,
> > -      struct drm_pagemap_addr addr);
> > +      const struct drm_pagemap_addr *addr);
> >  
> >   /**
> >   * @populate_mm: Populate part of the mm with @dpagemap
> > memory,