No.
But the one using logical operations is safer in the presense of old
drivers that don't do the right thing. There are some historical
drivers that may mix physical and virtual addresses, and just masking
off (or turning on) the high bits makes them work even though they
shouldn't.
For 2.3.x we definitely want to use the +-PAGE_OFFSET version.
Linus
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