From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
To: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Cc: Wei Liu <wei.liu@kernel.org>, Paul Durrant <paul@xen.org>,
xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] xen/netback: Pass (void *) to virt_to_page()
Date: Wed, 24 May 2023 22:11:47 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230524221147.5791ba3a@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230523140342.2672713-1-linus.walleij@linaro.org>
On Tue, 23 May 2023 16:03:42 +0200 Linus Walleij wrote:
> virt_to_page() takes a virtual address as argument but
> the driver passes an unsigned long, which works because
> the target platform(s) uses polymorphic macros to calculate
> the page.
>
> Since many architectures implement virt_to_pfn() as
> a macro, this function becomes polymorphic and accepts both a
> (unsigned long) and a (void *).
>
> Fix this up by an explicit (void *) cast.
Paul, Wei, looks like netdev may be the usual path for this patch
to flow thru, although I'm never 100% sure with Xen.
Please ack or LUK if you prefer to direct the patch elsewhere?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-05-25 5:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-05-23 14:03 [PATCH] xen/netback: Pass (void *) to virt_to_page() Linus Walleij
2023-05-23 15:15 ` Wei Liu
2023-05-25 5:11 ` Jakub Kicinski [this message]
2023-05-25 5:12 ` Jakub Kicinski
2023-05-25 13:47 ` Linus Walleij
2023-05-26 2:49 ` Wei Liu
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