Re: FAILED: patch "[PATCH] ARC: mm: fix build breakage with STRICT_MM_TYPECHECKS" failed to apply to 4.4-stable tree

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On 09/05/2016 06:05 AM, gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> The patch below does not apply to the 4.4-stable tree.
> If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm
> tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit
> id to <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>.
>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h

There were 2 commits after 4.4 which prevent a clean backport.
Reworked patch below. Please apply.

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rom 54607da05b9c3d4c5ee23ce0f21d7f91b83b6c34 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2016 18:27:07 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] 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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>   #4.4+
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 arch/arc/include/asm/pgtable.h | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arc/include/asm/pgtable.h b/arch/arc/include/asm/pgtable.h
index 3cab04255ae0..e5fec320f158 100644
--- a/arch/arc/include/asm/pgtable.h
+++ b/arch/arc/include/asm/pgtable.h
@@ -277,8 +277,7 @@ static inline void pmd_set(pmd_t *pmdp, pte_t *ptep)
 
 #define mk_pte(page, prot)    pfn_pte(page_to_pfn(page), prot)
 #define pte_pfn(pte)        (pte_val(pte) >> PAGE_SHIFT)
-#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)))
 #define __pte_index(addr)    (((addr) >> PAGE_SHIFT) & (PTRS_PER_PTE - 1))
 
 /*
-- 
2.7.4

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