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SubjectRe: [PATCH] mm: Remove broken pfn_to_virt() on arch csky/hexagon/openrisc
On Fri, Feb 2, 2024, at 15:05, Yan Zhao wrote:
> Remove the broken pfn_to_virt() on architectures csky/hexagon/openrisc.
>
> The pfn_to_virt() on those architectures takes PFN instead of PA as the
> input to macro __va(), with PAGE_SHIFT applying to the converted VA, which
> is not right, especially when there's a non-zero offset in __va(). [1]
>
> The broken pfn_to_virt() was noticed when checking how page_to_virt() is
> unfolded on x86. It turns out that the one in linux/mm.h instead of in
> asm-generic/page.h is compiled for x86. However, page_to_virt() in
> asm-generic/page.h is found out expanding to pfn_to_virt() with a bug
> described above. The pfn_to_virt() is found out not right as well on
> architectures csky/hexagon/openrisc.
>
> Since there's no single caller on csky/hexagon/openrisc to pfn_to_virt()
> and there are functions doing similar things as pfn_to_virt() --
> - pfn_to_kaddr() in asm/page.h for csky,
> - page_to_virt() in asm/page.h for hexagon, and
> - page_to_virt() in linux/mm.h for openrisc,
> just delete the pfn_to_virt() on those architectures.
>
> The pfn_to_virt() in asm-generic/page.h is not touched in this patch as
> it's referenced by page_to_virt() in that header while the whole header is
> going to be removed as a whole due to no one including it.
>
> Link:https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240131055159.2506-1-yan.y.zhao@intel.com [1]
> Cc: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
> Suggested-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
> Signed-off-by: Yan Zhao <yan.y.zhao@intel.com>

Nice changelog text!

Applied it to the asm-generic tree now, thanks,

Arnd

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