[PATCH v2 4/5] powerpc/mm: Drop the unnecessary region check

Aneesh Kumar K.V aneesh.kumar at linux.ibm.com
Mon Mar 18 02:48:26 AEDT 2019


All the regions are now mapped with top nibble 0xc. Hence the region id
check is not needed for virt_addr_valid()

Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar at linux.ibm.com>
---
 arch/powerpc/include/asm/page.h | 12 ------------
 1 file changed, 12 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/page.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/page.h
index 918228f2205b..748f5db2e2b7 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/page.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/page.h
@@ -132,19 +132,7 @@ static inline bool pfn_valid(unsigned long pfn)
 #define virt_to_page(kaddr)	pfn_to_page(virt_to_pfn(kaddr))
 #define pfn_to_kaddr(pfn)	__va((pfn) << PAGE_SHIFT)
 
-#ifdef CONFIG_PPC_BOOK3S_64
-/*
- * On hash the vmalloc and other regions alias to the kernel region when passed
- * through __pa(), which virt_to_pfn() uses. That means virt_addr_valid() can
- * return true for some vmalloc addresses, which is incorrect. So explicitly
- * check that the address is in the kernel region.
- */
-/* may be can drop get_region_id */
-#define virt_addr_valid(kaddr) (get_region_id((unsigned long)kaddr) == KERNEL_REGION_ID && \
-				pfn_valid(virt_to_pfn(kaddr)))
-#else
 #define virt_addr_valid(kaddr)	pfn_valid(virt_to_pfn(kaddr))
-#endif
 
 /*
  * On Book-E parts we need __va to parse the device tree and we can't
-- 
2.20.1



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