Re: [PATCH 08/22] ARM: LPAE: use phys_addr_t for initrd locationand size

From: Cyril Chemparathy
Date: Sun Aug 05 2012 - 10:23:25 EST


On 8/4/2012 2:57 AM, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
On Tue, 31 Jul 2012, Cyril Chemparathy wrote:

From: Vitaly Andrianov <vitalya@xxxxxx>

This patch fixes the initrd setup code to use phys_addr_t instead of assuming
32-bit addressing. Without this we cannot boot on systems where initrd is
located above the 4G physical address limit.

Signed-off-by: Vitaly Andrianov <vitalya@xxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Cyril Chemparathy <cyril@xxxxxx>
---
arch/arm/mm/init.c | 14 +++++++-------
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm/mm/init.c b/arch/arm/mm/init.c
index 8252c31..51f3e92 100644
--- a/arch/arm/mm/init.c
+++ b/arch/arm/mm/init.c
@@ -36,12 +36,12 @@

#include "mm.h"

-static unsigned long phys_initrd_start __initdata = 0;
-static unsigned long phys_initrd_size __initdata = 0;
+static phys_addr_t phys_initrd_start __initdata = 0;
+static phys_addr_t phys_initrd_size __initdata = 0;

phys_addr_t for the initrd size is rather overkill, isn't it?


Fair enough. :-)


Nicolas


--
Thanks
- Cyril
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