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ARC: mm: fix build breakage with STRICT_MM_TYPECHECKS

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|  CC      mm/memory.o
| In file included from ../mm/memory.c:53:0:
| ../include/linux/pfn_t.h: In function ‘pfn_t_pte’:
| ../include/linux/pfn_t.h:78:2: error: conversion to non-scalar type requested
|  return pfn_pte(pfn_t_to_pfn(pfn), pgprot);

With STRICT_MM_TYPECHECKS pte_t is a struct and the offending code
forces a cast which ends up shifting a struct and hence the gcc warning.

Note that in recent past some of the arches (aarch64, s390) made
STRICT_MM_TYPECHECKS default, but we don't for ARC as this leads to slightly
worse generated code, given ARC ABI definition of returning structs
(which pte_t would become)

Quoting from ARC ABI...

  "Results of type struct are returned in a caller-supplied temporary
  variable whose address is passed in r0.
  For such functions, the arguments are shifted so that they are
  passed in r1 and up."

So
 - struct to be returned would be allocated on stack requiring extra
   code at call sites
 - callee updates stack memory to facilitate the return (vs. simple
   MOV into return reg r0)

Hence STRICT_MM_TYPECHECKS is not enabled by default for ARC

Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>   #4.4+
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
This commit is contained in:
Vineet Gupta 2016-08-16 18:27:07 -07:00
parent d77976c414
commit 1c3c909303
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arch/arc/include/asm/pgtable.h
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@ -280,7 +280,7 @@ static inline void pmd_set(pmd_t *pmdp, pte_t *ptep)
#define pte_page(pte) pfn_to_page(pte_pfn(pte))
#define mk_pte(page, prot) pfn_pte(page_to_pfn(page), prot)
#define pfn_pte(pfn, prot) (__pte(((pte_t)(pfn) << PAGE_SHIFT) | pgprot_val(prot)))
#define pfn_pte(pfn, prot) __pte(((pfn) << PAGE_SHIFT) | pgprot_val(prot))
/* Don't use virt_to_pfn for macros below: could cause truncations for PAE40*/
#define pte_pfn(pte) (pte_val(pte) >> PAGE_SHIFT)