On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 02:42:08PM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 2:40 PM, Chris Mason <chris.ma...@fusionio.com> wrote:
> > Quoting Chris Mason (2013-11-15 07:21:31)
> >> Quoting Heiko Carstens (2013-11-15 06:32:16)
> >> > On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 12:19:52PM -0500, Chris Mason wrote:
> >> > > Hi Linus,
> >> > >
> >> > > Please pull my for-linus branch:
> >> > >
> >> > > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mason/linux-btrfs.git 
> >> > > for-linus
> >> > >
> >> > > This is our usual merge window set of bug fixes, performance
> >> > > improvements and cleanups.  Miao Xie has some really nice optimizations
> >> > > for writeback.
> >> > >
> >> > > Josef also expanded our sanity checks quite a bit; these make up a big
> >> > > chunk of the new lines.
> >> >
> >> > Hmm..  b19e68439375  "btrfs: Remove redundant local zero structure" 
> >> > seems to
> >> > use the empty_zero_page incorrectly and causes this compile warning on 
> >> > s390:
> >> >
> >> >   CC      fs/btrfs/ioctl.o
> >> > fs/btrfs/ioctl.c: In function 'btrfs_is_empty_uuid':
> >> > fs/btrfs/ioctl.c:372:2: warning: passing argument 2 of 'memcmp' makes 
> >> > pointer from
> >> >                         integer without a cast [enabled by default]
> >> >   return !memcmp(uuid, empty_zero_page, BTRFS_UUID_SIZE);
> >> >   ^
> >> >
> >> > In fact there seem to be two more incorrect usages in the kernel. The 
> >> > patch
> >> > below is not really tested.
> >>
> >> Thanks Heiko,
> >>
> >> I'll make a new pull with the btrfs part of this.
> >
> > Or something slightly different ;)
> >
> > BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at 0000000001ba6000
> > IP: [<ffffffff812b3656>] memcmp+0xf/0x22
> 
> I was just going to comment that
> 
> +       const void *zero_page = (const void *) page_to_phys(ZERO_PAGE(0));
> 
> won't fly. You can't just cast a physical address to "void *".

Ouch.. I think that only works on s390 because we have a 1:1 mapping for
physical to virtual addresses in kernel space due to our split address spaces.

So for btrfs and kvm it should be page_to_virt(), and for the dma_map_single()
case I have no idea. :)

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