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author | Cesar Eduardo Barros | 2010-08-10 02:18:32 +0200 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds | 2010-08-10 05:44:54 +0200 |
commit | 597781f3e51f48ef8e67be772196d9e9673752c4 (patch) | |
tree | 6e1974bc899889da40f2fde47b04a5ece0bd3399 /arch/powerpc | |
parent | hugetlb: call mmu notifiers on hugepage cow (diff) | |
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kmap_atomic: make kunmap_atomic() harder to misuse
kunmap_atomic() is currently at level -4 on Rusty's "Hard To Misuse"
list[1] ("Follow common convention and you'll get it wrong"), except in
some architectures when CONFIG_DEBUG_HIGHMEM is set[2][3].
kunmap() takes a pointer to a struct page; kunmap_atomic(), however, takes
takes a pointer to within the page itself. This seems to once in a while
trip people up (the convention they are following is the one from
kunmap()).
Make it much harder to misuse, by moving it to level 9 on Rusty's list[4]
("The compiler/linker won't let you get it wrong"). This is done by
refusing to build if the type of its first argument is a pointer to a
struct page.
The real kunmap_atomic() is renamed to kunmap_atomic_notypecheck()
(which is what you would call in case for some strange reason calling it
with a pointer to a struct page is not incorrect in your code).
The previous version of this patch was compile tested on x86-64.
[1] http://ozlabs.org/~rusty/index.cgi/tech/2008-04-01.html
[2] In these cases, it is at level 5, "Do it right or it will always
break at runtime."
[3] At least mips and powerpc look very similar, and sparc also seems to
share a common ancestor with both; there seems to be quite some
degree of copy-and-paste coding here. The include/asm/highmem.h file
for these three archs mention x86 CPUs at its top.
[4] http://ozlabs.org/~rusty/index.cgi/tech/2008-03-30.html
[5] As an aside, could someone tell me why mn10300 uses unsigned long as
the first parameter of kunmap_atomic() instead of void *?
Signed-off-by: Cesar Eduardo Barros <cesarb@cesarb.net>
Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk> (arch/arm)
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> (arch/mips)
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> (arch/frv, arch/mn10300)
Cc: Koichi Yasutake <yasutake.koichi@jp.panasonic.com> (arch/mn10300)
Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca> (arch/parisc)
Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de> (arch/parisc)
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <jejb@parisc-linux.org> (arch/parisc)
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> (arch/powerpc)
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> (arch/powerpc)
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> (arch/sparc)
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> (arch/x86)
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> (arch/x86)
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> (arch/x86)
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> (include/asm-generic)
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> ("Hard To Misuse" list)
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/powerpc')
-rw-r--r-- | arch/powerpc/include/asm/highmem.h | 2 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | arch/powerpc/mm/highmem.c | 4 |
2 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/highmem.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/highmem.h index a74c4ee6c020..d10d64a4be38 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/highmem.h +++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/highmem.h @@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ extern void *kmap_high(struct page *page); extern void kunmap_high(struct page *page); extern void *kmap_atomic_prot(struct page *page, enum km_type type, pgprot_t prot); -extern void kunmap_atomic(void *kvaddr, enum km_type type); +extern void kunmap_atomic_notypecheck(void *kvaddr, enum km_type type); static inline void *kmap(struct page *page) { diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/highmem.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/highmem.c index c2186c74c85a..857d4173f9c6 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/mm/highmem.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/highmem.c @@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ void *kmap_atomic_prot(struct page *page, enum km_type type, pgprot_t prot) } EXPORT_SYMBOL(kmap_atomic_prot); -void kunmap_atomic(void *kvaddr, enum km_type type) +void kunmap_atomic_notypecheck(void *kvaddr, enum km_type type) { #ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_HIGHMEM unsigned long vaddr = (unsigned long) kvaddr & PAGE_MASK; @@ -74,4 +74,4 @@ void kunmap_atomic(void *kvaddr, enum km_type type) #endif pagefault_enable(); } -EXPORT_SYMBOL(kunmap_atomic); +EXPORT_SYMBOL(kunmap_atomic_notypecheck); |