On Thu, Sep 04, 2025 at 02:54:24PM +0300, Mike Rapoport wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 04, 2025 at 02:51:14PM +0300, Mike Rapoport wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 03, 2025 at 11:59:17AM -0700, Vishal Moola (Oracle) wrote:
> > > free_pages() should be used when we only have a virtual address. We
> > > should call __free_pages() directly on our page instead.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Vishal Moola (Oracle) <vishal.mo...@gmail.com>
> > > Acked-by: Dave Hansen <dave.han...@linux.intel.com>
> > > ---
> > > arch/x86/mm/init_64.c | 2 +-
> > > arch/x86/platform/efi/memmap.c | 2 +-
> > > 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c b/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c
> > > index b9426fce5f3e..0e4270e20fad 100644
> > > --- a/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c
> > > +++ b/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c
> > > @@ -1031,7 +1031,7 @@ static void __meminit free_pagetable(struct page
> > > *page, int order)
> > > free_reserved_pages(page, nr_pages);
> > > #endif
> > > } else {
> > > - free_pages((unsigned long)page_address(page), order);
> > > + __free_pages(page, order);
> > > }
> > > }
> > >
> > > diff --git a/arch/x86/platform/efi/memmap.c
> > > b/arch/x86/platform/efi/memmap.c
> > > index 061b8ecc71a1..023697c88910 100644
> > > --- a/arch/x86/platform/efi/memmap.c
> > > +++ b/arch/x86/platform/efi/memmap.c
> > > @@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ void __init __efi_memmap_free(u64 phys, unsigned long
> > > size, unsigned long flags)
> > > struct page *p = pfn_to_page(PHYS_PFN(phys));
> > > unsigned int order = get_order(size);
> > >
> > > - free_pages((unsigned long) page_address(p), order);
> >
> > Could be just free_pages((unsigned long)phys_to_virt(phys), order), then
> > the page is not needed at all.
>
> Or even __free_pages(phys_to_page(phys), order);
Right. It actually looks like we could inline this whole block if we
really wanted to...
__free_pages(phys_to_page(phys), get_order(size));
Should I send a fixup (or v4) with this change?
