[RFC V2 3/6] sh/mm: Stop using pte_ERROR()

David Hildenbrand (Arm) david at kernel.org
Wed Aug 12 04:28:23 PDT 2026


On 8/11/26 06:21, Anshuman Khandual wrote:
> Directly use pr_err() in set_pte_phys() and drop pte_ERROR() which helps in
> eventually dropping pte_ERROR() macro across the tree. In this new printing
> __FILE__ and __LINE__ has been dropped because they are always the same and
> don't really add any value.
> 
> 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/include/asm/pgtable_32.h |  5 -----
>  arch/sh/mm/init.c                | 11 ++++++++++-
>  2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/sh/include/asm/pgtable_32.h b/arch/sh/include/asm/pgtable_32.h
> index 5f51af18997b..c8eb9a7a4c4c 100644
> --- a/arch/sh/include/asm/pgtable_32.h
> +++ b/arch/sh/include/asm/pgtable_32.h
> @@ -401,14 +401,9 @@ static inline unsigned long pmd_page_vaddr(pmd_t pmd)
>  #define pmd_page(pmd)		(virt_to_page(pmd_val(pmd)))
>  
>  #ifdef CONFIG_X2TLB
> -#define pte_ERROR(e) \
> -	printk("%s:%d: bad pte %p(%08lx%08lx).\n", __FILE__, __LINE__, \
> -	       &(e), (e).pte_high, (e).pte_low)
>  #define pgd_ERROR(e) \
>  	printk("%s:%d: bad pgd %016llx.\n", __FILE__, __LINE__, pgd_val(e))
>  #else
> -#define pte_ERROR(e) \
> -	printk("%s:%d: bad pte %08lx.\n", __FILE__, __LINE__, pte_val(e))
>  #define pgd_ERROR(e) \
>  	printk("%s:%d: bad pgd %08lx.\n", __FILE__, __LINE__, pgd_val(e))
>  #endif
> diff --git a/arch/sh/mm/init.c b/arch/sh/mm/init.c
> index 110308bdef01..b3c7fd84ceb4 100644
> --- a/arch/sh/mm/init.c
> +++ b/arch/sh/mm/init.c
> @@ -78,13 +78,22 @@ static pte_t *__get_pte_phys(unsigned long addr)
>  	return pte_offset_kernel(pmd, addr);
>  }
>  
> +static void print_bad_pte(pte_t pte)
> +{
> +#ifdef CONFIG_X2TLB
> +	printk("bad pte %p(%08lx%08lx).\n", &pte, pte.pte_high, pte.pte_low);
> +#else
> +	printk("bad pte %08lx.\n", pte_val(pte));
> +#endif

I'd avoid that helper if possible, so we don't encourage new users.

Shouldn't we just switch to pr_err() right away?

> +}
> +
>  static void set_pte_phys(unsigned long addr, unsigned long phys, pgprot_t prot)
>  {
>  	pte_t *pte;
>  
>  	pte = __get_pte_phys(addr);
>  	if (!pte_none(*pte)) {
> -		pte_ERROR(*pte);
> +		print_bad_pte(*pte);

Maybe similar to my reply to patch #1, actually print something more useful than
just "bad pte" ? And possibly also just use ptval_to_str().

-- 
Cheers,

David



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