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From: Wei Liu <wei.liu@kernel.org>
To: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Cc: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>,
	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: Fri, 26 May 2023 02:49:51 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZHAeT2m7297SOKfS@liuwe-devbox-debian-v2> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230524221147.5791ba3a@kernel.org>

On Wed, May 24, 2023 at 10:11:47PM -0700, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> 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.

Yes. Netdev is the right path.

Thanks,
Wei.

      parent reply	other threads:[~2023-05-26  2:49 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
2023-05-25  5:12   ` Jakub Kicinski
2023-05-25 13:47     ` Linus Walleij
2023-05-26  2:49   ` Wei Liu [this message]

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