I am doing a page table walk. When I am getting ready to update the kernel I get an error:
./arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h:988:40: warning: right shift count >= width of type [-Wshift-count-overflow]
#define pgd_index(address) (((address) >> PGDIR_SHIFT) & (PTRS_PER_PGD - 1))
^
./arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h:994:45: note: in expansion of macro ‘pgd_index’
#define pgd_offset_pgd(pgd, address) (pgd + pgd_index((address)))
^
./arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h:998:33: note: in expansion of macro ‘pgd_offset_pgd’
#define pgd_offset(mm, address) pgd_offset_pgd((mm)->pgd, (address))
^
kernel/sys.c:2733:19: note: in expansion of macro ‘pgd_offset’
pgd_t *pgd = pgd_offset(task_mm, vmpage);
^
kernel/sys.c:2734:30: error: passing argument 1 of ‘pud_offset’ from incompatible pointer type [-Werror=incompatible-pointer-types]
pud_t *pud = pud_offset(pgd, vmpage);
^
In file included from ./include/linux/mm.h:99:0,
from kernel/sys.c:19:
./arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h:905:22: note: expected ‘p4d_t * {aka struct <anonymous> *}’ but argument is of type ‘pgd_t * {aka struct <anonymous> *}’
static inline pud_t *pud_offset(p4d_t *p4d, unsigned long address)
^
This is where the code is being used:
....
struct mm_struct *task_mm;
if ((task_mm = task->mm))
{
vma = task_mm->mmap;
while (vma)
{
for (int i = 1, vmpage = vma->vm_start; vmpage < vma->vm_end; vmpage += PAGE_SIZE, i++)
{
pgd_t *pgd = pgd_offset(task_mm, vmpage);
pud_t *pud = pud_offset(pgd, vmpage);
pmd_t *pmd = pmd_offset(pud, vmpage);
pte_t *ptep = pte_offset_kernel(pmd, vmpage);
pte_t pte = *ptep;
...
I looked up the errors and notes but didn't find anything about resolving this problem. Is this a well known problem or am I doing something wrong?