On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 09:36:13AM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 9:26 AM, Michael S. Tsirkin <[email protected]> wrote: > > As a result of backporting a bugfix, virtio_net started passing void * > > to page_address, assuming that it will get silently converted to struct > > page *. But this does not happen on architectures where page_address is > > a macro, the result is build failure as the macro tries to dereference > > void*. > > > > Fix by reordering code slightly, so we always pass > > struct page * to page_address. > > Thanks for the clue! I was just investigating a similar failure in -next. > > Gr{oetje,eeting}s, > > Geert
You don't mean linux-next? And not in virtio-net? I don't see page_address being used on void * anywhere there. > -- > Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- > [email protected] > > In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But > when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like > that. > -- Linus Torvalds -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
