On Wed, Sep 03, 2025 at 11:59:14AM -0700, Vishal Moola (Oracle) wrote: > free_pages() is supposed to be called when we only have a virtual address. > __free_pages() is supposed to be called when we have a page. > > There are a number of callers that use page_address() to get a page's > virtual address then call free_pages() on it when they should just call > __free_pages() directly. > > Add kernel-docs for free_pages() to help callers better understand which > function they should be calling, and replace the obvious cases of > misuse. > > Vishal Moola (Oracle) (7): > mm/page_alloc: Add kernel-docs for free_pages() > aoe: Stop calling page_address() in free_page() > x86: Stop calling page_address() in free_pages() > riscv: Stop calling page_address() in free_pages() > powerpc: Stop calling page_address() in free_pages() > arm64: Stop calling page_address() in free_pages() > virtio_balloon: Stop calling page_address() in free_pages() Acked-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@xxxxxxxxxx> > arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c | 2 +- > arch/powerpc/mm/book3s64/radix_pgtable.c | 2 +- > arch/riscv/mm/init.c | 4 ++-- > arch/x86/mm/init_64.c | 2 +- > arch/x86/platform/efi/memmap.c | 2 +- > drivers/block/aoe/aoecmd.c | 2 +- > drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c | 8 +++----- > mm/page_alloc.c | 9 +++++++++ > 8 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-) > > -- > 2.51.0 > > -- Sincerely yours, Mike.
