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From: Harshvardhan Jha <harshvardhan.j.jha@oracle.com>
To: akpm@linux-foundation.org
Cc: harshvardhan.j.jha@oracle.com, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 5.4.y 1/4] mm: clarify a confusing comment for remap_pfn_range()
Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2024 07:34:40 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20241114153443.505015-2-harshvardhan.j.jha@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20241114153443.505015-1-harshvardhan.j.jha@oracle.com>

From: WANG Wenhu <wenhu.wang@vivo.com>

commit 86a76331d94c4cfa72fe1831dbe4b492f66fdb81 upstream

It really made me scratch my head.  Replace the comment with an accurate
and consistent description.

The parameter pfn actually refers to the page frame number which is
right-shifted by PAGE_SHIFT from the physical address.

Signed-off-by: WANG Wenhu <wenhu.wang@vivo.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200310073955.43415-1-wenhu.wang@vivo.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
(cherry picked from commit 86a76331d94c4cfa72fe1831dbe4b492f66fdb81)
Signed-off-by: Harshvardhan Jha <harshvardhan.j.jha@oracle.com>
---
 mm/memory.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
index f8d76c66311df..238064ef73ae8 100644
--- a/mm/memory.c
+++ b/mm/memory.c
@@ -1921,7 +1921,7 @@ static inline int remap_p4d_range(struct mm_struct *mm, pgd_t *pgd,
  * remap_pfn_range - remap kernel memory to userspace
  * @vma: user vma to map to
  * @addr: target user address to start at
- * @pfn: physical address of kernel memory
+ * @pfn: page frame number of kernel physical memory address
  * @size: size of map area
  * @prot: page protection flags for this mapping
  *
-- 
2.46.0



  reply	other threads:[~2024-11-14 15:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-11-14 15:34 [PATCH 5.4.y 0/4] Backport fix of CVE-2024-47674 to 5.10 Harshvardhan Jha
2024-11-14 15:34 ` Harshvardhan Jha [this message]
2024-11-14 15:34 ` [PATCH 5.4.y 2/4] mm: fix ambiguous comments for better code readability Harshvardhan Jha
2024-11-14 15:34 ` [PATCH 5.4.y 3/4] mm/memory.c: make remap_pfn_range() reject unaligned addr Harshvardhan Jha
2024-11-14 15:34 ` [PATCH 5.4.y 4/4] mm: add remap_pfn_range_notrack Harshvardhan Jha
2024-11-14 15:51 ` [PATCH 5.4.y 0/4] Backport fix of CVE-2024-47674 to 5.10 Harshvardhan Jha
2024-11-15  5:27   ` Greg KH

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