[RFC V2 4/6] sh/mm: Stop using [p4d|pud|pmd]_ERROR()

David Hildenbrand (Arm) david at kernel.org
Wed Aug 12 04:21:28 PDT 2026


On 8/11/26 06:21, Anshuman Khandual wrote:
> Stop using [p4d|pud|pmd]_ERROR() in __get_pte_phys() as the pgtable entries
> are known to be NULL and hence could not really be accessed.
> 
> Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato at users.sourceforge.jp>
> Cc: Rich Felker <dalias at libc.org>
> Cc: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz at physik.fu-berlin.de>
> Cc: linux-sh at vger.kernel.org
> Cc: linux-kernel at vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual at arm.com>
> ---
>  arch/sh/mm/init.c | 12 +++---------
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/sh/mm/init.c b/arch/sh/mm/init.c
> index b3c7fd84ceb4..0bb8555568a4 100644
> --- a/arch/sh/mm/init.c
> +++ b/arch/sh/mm/init.c
> @@ -58,22 +58,16 @@ static pte_t *__get_pte_phys(unsigned long addr)
>  	}
>  
>  	p4d = p4d_alloc(NULL, pgd, addr);
> -	if (unlikely(!p4d)) {
> -		p4d_ERROR(*p4d);
> +	if (unlikely(!p4d))
>  		return NULL;
> -	}
>  
>  	pud = pud_alloc(NULL, p4d, addr);
> -	if (unlikely(!pud)) {
> -		pud_ERROR(*pud);
> +	if (unlikely(!pud))
>  		return NULL;
> -	}
>  
>  	pmd = pmd_alloc(NULL, pud, addr);
> -	if (unlikely(!pmd)) {
> -		pmd_ERROR(*pmd);
> +	if (unlikely(!pmd))
>  		return NULL;
> -	}
>  
>  	return pte_offset_kernel(pmd, addr);
>  }

Do we want to print an error like "allocating p4d table failed"?

Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david at kernel.org>

-- 
Cheers,

David



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