[PATCH 0/3] Globally defining phys_addr_t
From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge
Date: Thu Sep 11 2008 - 04:31:50 EST
Hi Ingo,
This is a repost of a little 3-patch series which Andrew has been
carrying in -mm. It cleans up the definition of phys_addr_t to make it
kernel-wide rather than x86-specific, and fixes up PFN_PHYS() to use it
to avoid address truncation.
We currently have a few workarounds for this problem in the tree, but
Alex found another bug caused by PFN_PHYS(), so it's probably better if
you bring these patches into tip.git for now.
PowerPC also defines a phys_addr_t with the same meaning as x86; the
powerpc arch maintainers are happy with these patches.
The third patch in the series is not necessary to fix any bug, but it
removes the separate definition of resource_size_t to define it in terms
of phys_addr_t. I include it for competeness.
Thanks,
J
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