[merged mm-stable] x86-stop-calling-page_address-in-free_pages.patch removed from -mm tree

[merged mm-stable] x86-stop-calling-page_address-in-free_pages.patch removed from -mm tree

[Andrew Morton]

The quilt patch titled
     Subject: x86: stop calling page_address() in free_pages()
has been removed from the -mm tree.  Its filename was
     x86-stop-calling-page_address-in-free_pages.patch

This patch was dropped because it was merged into the mm-stable branch
of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

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From: "Vishal Moola (Oracle)" <vishal.moola@gmail.com>
Subject: x86: stop calling page_address() in free_pages()
Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2025 11:59:17 -0700

free_pages() should be used when we only have a virtual address.  We
should call __free_pages() directly on our page instead.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250903185921.1785167-4-vishal.moola@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Vishal Moola (Oracle) <vishal.moola@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Albert Ou <aou@eecs.berkeley.edu>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Justin Sanders <justin@coraid.com>
Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com>
Cc: Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@sifive.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Ritesh Harjani (IBM) <ritesh.list@gmail.com>
Cc: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---

 arch/x86/mm/init_64.c          |    2 +-
 arch/x86/platform/efi/memmap.c |    2 +-
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c~x86-stop-calling-page_address-in-free_pages
+++ a/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c
@@ -1031,7 +1031,7 @@ static void __meminit free_pagetable(str
 		free_reserved_pages(page, nr_pages);
 #endif
 	} else {
-		free_pages((unsigned long)page_address(page), order);
+		__free_pages(page, order);
 	}
 }
 
--- a/arch/x86/platform/efi/memmap.c~x86-stop-calling-page_address-in-free_pages
+++ a/arch/x86/platform/efi/memmap.c
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ void __init __efi_memmap_free(u64 phys,
 		struct page *p = pfn_to_page(PHYS_PFN(phys));
 		unsigned int order = get_order(size);
 
-		free_pages((unsigned long) page_address(p), order);
+		__free_pages(p, order);
 	}
 }
 
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from vishal.moola@gmail.com are