[PATCH v13 04/11] mm/page_table_check: Reinstate address parameter in [__]page_table_check_pud_clear()

Andrew Donnellan ajd at linux.ibm.com
Fri Apr 11 15:52:37 AEST 2025


On Thu, 2025-03-13 at 16:10 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Feb 2025 03:13:57 +1100 Andrew Donnellan
> <ajd at linux.ibm.com> wrote:
> 
> > This reverts commit 931c38e16499 ("mm/page_table_check: remove
> > unused
> > parameter in [__]page_table_check_pud_clear").
> > 
> > Reinstate previously unused parameters for the purpose of
> > supporting
> > powerpc platforms, as many do not encode user/kernel ownership of
> > the
> > page in the pte, but instead in the address of the access.
> 
> My x86-64 allmodconfig exploded.
> 
> ./arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h: In function 'pudp_establish':
> ./arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h:1443:46: error: passing argument 2
> of 'page_table_check_pud_set' makes integer from pointer without a
> cast [-Werror=int-conversion]
>  1443 |         page_table_check_pud_set(vma->vm_mm, pudp, pud);
>       |                                              ^~~~
>       |                                              |
>       |                                              pud_t *
> 
> 
> 
> #ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_PUD
> static inline pud_t pudp_establish(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
>                 unsigned long address, pud_t *pudp, pud_t pud)
> {
> 	page_table_check_pud_set(vma->vm_mm, pudp, pud);
> 	...
> 

Sorry, my email filters sent this to the wrong folder for some reason
and I didn't see this. I've sent v14:

https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/linuxppc-dev/list/?series=452247

Thanks,
-- 
Andrew Donnellan    OzLabs, ADL Canberra
ajd at linux.ibm.com   IBM Australia Limited


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