Re: [PATCH v2] x86: Ensure input to pfn_to_kaddr() is treated as a 64-bit type

[Dave Hansen]

On 11/15/23 12:14, Michael Roth wrote:
> While it might be argued that the issue is on the caller side, other
> archs/macros have taken similar approaches to deal with instances like
> this, such as commit e48866647b48 ("ARM: 8396/1: use phys_addr_t in
> pfn_to_kaddr()").

Gah, I really hope nobody is arguing that for real, or is even thinking
about this as a valid argument.

The helper should, well, help the caller.  It makes zero sense to me
that every single call site would need to know if the argument's type
was big enough to hold the _return_ value.  This nonsense can only even
happen with macros.  Type promotion would just do the right thing for
any sanely declared actual helper function.