Re: [PATCH] mm: Make {,set}page_address() static inline if WANT_PAGE_VIRTUAL

[Guenter Roeck]

On 01/15/2014 01:33 AM, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> {,set}page_address() are macros if WANT_PAGE_VIRTUAL.
> If !WANT_PAGE_VIRTUAL, they're plain C functions.
>
> If someone calls them with a void *, this pointer is auto-converted to
> struct page * if !WANT_PAGE_VIRTUAL, but causes a build failure on
> architectures using WANT_PAGE_VIRTUAL (arc, m68k and sparc):
>
> drivers/md/bcache/bset.c: In function â__btree_sortâ:
> drivers/md/bcache/bset.c:1190: warning: dereferencing âvoid *â pointer
> drivers/md/bcache/bset.c:1190: error: request for member âvirtualâ in something not a structure or union
>
> Convert them to static inline functions to fix this. There are already
> plenty of  users of struct page members inside <linux/mm.h>, so there's no
> reason to keep them as macros.
>
> Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Tested-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

That also fixes the problem seen in stable-queue for 3.10 and 3.12,
so it may be a better fix for the problem seen there than the patch
provided by Michael.

Guenter

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