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Date:   Sat, 17 Apr 2021 21:22:40 +0100
From:   Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
To:     Ilias Apalodimas <ilias.apalodimas@linaro.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] mm: Fix struct page layout on 32-bit systems
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On Sat, Apr 17, 2021 at 09:32:06PM +0300, Ilias Apalodimas wrote:
> > +static inline void page_pool_set_dma_addr(struct page *page, dma_addr_t addr)
> > +{
> > +	page->dma_addr[0] = addr;
> > +	if (sizeof(dma_addr_t) > sizeof(unsigned long))
> > +		page->dma_addr[1] = addr >> 16 >> 16;
> 
> The 'error' that was reported will never trigger right?
> I assume this was compiled with dma_addr_t as 32bits (so it triggered the
> compilation error), but the if check will never allow this codepath to run.
> If so can we add a comment explaining this, since none of us will remember why
> in 6 months from now?

That's right.  I compiled it all three ways -- 32-bit, 64-bit dma, 32-bit long
and 64-bit.  The 32/64 bit case turn into:

	if (0)
		page->dma_addr[1] = addr >> 16 >> 16;

which gets elided.  So the only case that has to work is 64-bit dma and
32-bit long.

I can replace this with upper_32_bits().