Re: [PATCH -mm] PAGE_ALIGN(): correctly handle 64-bit values on 32-bit architectures (v2)

[Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>]

Andrea Righi writes:

> Also move the PAGE_ALIGN() definitions out of include/asm-*/page.h in
> include/linux/mm.h.

I'd rather see it in some other place than this, because
include/linux/mm.h is a large header that includes quite a lot of
other stuff.  What's wrong with leaving it in each arch's page.h and
only changing it on those archs that have both 32-bit and 64-bit
variants?  Or perhaps there is some other, lower-level header in
include/linux where it could go?

> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/boot/of.c b/arch/powerpc/boot/of.c
> index 61d9899..6bc72b1 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/boot/of.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/boot/of.c
> @@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
>   */
>  #include <stdarg.h>
>  #include <stddef.h>
> +#include <linux/mm.h>
>  #include "types.h"
>  #include "elf.h"
>  #include "string.h"
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/boot/page.h b/arch/powerpc/boot/page.h
> index 14eca30..aa42298 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/boot/page.h
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/boot/page.h
> @@ -28,7 +28,4 @@
>  /* align addr on a size boundary - adjust address up if needed */
>  #define _ALIGN(addr,size)     _ALIGN_UP(addr,size)
>  
> -/* to align the pointer to the (next) page boundary */
> -#define PAGE_ALIGN(addr)	_ALIGN(addr, PAGE_SIZE)
> -
>  #endif				/* _PPC_BOOT_PAGE_H */

These parts are NAKed, because arch/powerpc/boot is a separate program
that doesn't use the kernel include files.

> diff --git a/include/asm-powerpc/page.h b/include/asm-powerpc/page.h
> index cffdf0e..e088545 100644
> --- a/include/asm-powerpc/page.h
> +++ b/include/asm-powerpc/page.h
> @@ -119,9 +119,6 @@ extern phys_addr_t kernstart_addr;
>  /* align addr on a size boundary - adjust address up if needed */
>  #define _ALIGN(addr,size)     _ALIGN_UP(addr,size)
>  
> -/* to align the pointer to the (next) page boundary */
> -#define PAGE_ALIGN(addr)	_ALIGN(addr, PAGE_SIZE)
> -
>  /*
>   * Don't compare things with KERNELBASE or PAGE_OFFSET to test for
>   * "kernelness", use is_kernel_addr() - it should do what you want.

We had already come across this issue on powerpc, and we fixed it by
making sure that the type of PAGE_MASK was int, not unsigned int.
However, I have no objection to using the ALIGN() macro from
include/linux/kernel.h instead.

Paul.

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