Re: [PATCH 06/28] nios2: Memory management

From: Chung-Lin Tang
Date: Tue Apr 22 2014 - 12:36:26 EST


On 2014/4/23 äå 12:27, Ezequiel Garcia wrote:
> On Apr 23, Chung-Lin Tang wrote:
>> On 2014/4/22 äå 11:35, Ezequiel Garcia wrote:
>>> On Apr 22, Tobias Klauser wrote:
>>>> On 2014-04-22 at 16:24:43 +0200, Ezequiel Garcia <ezequiel.garcia@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>> Hi Ley Foon,
>>>>>
>>>>> On Apr 18, Ley Foon Tan wrote:
>>>>>> +/*
>>>>>> + * PAGE_SHIFT determines the page size
>>>>>> + */
>>>>>> +#define PAGE_SHIFT 12
>>>>>> +#define PAGE_SIZE 4096
>>>>>> +#define PAGE_MASK (~(PAGE_SIZE - 1))
>>>>>> +
>>>>>
>>>>> How about something like this:
>>>>>
>>>>> /* PAGE_SHIFT determines the page size */
>>>>> #define PAGE_SHIFT 12
>>>>> #define PAGE_SIZE (_AC(1,UL) << PAGE_SHIFT)
>>>>> #define PAGE_MASK (~((1 << PAGE_SHIFT) - 1))
>>>>>
>>>>> Otherwise, the PAGE_SIZE macro above produces some warnings, IIRC.
>>>>
>>>> AFAIR old nios2 GCC versions (the 4.1 version from Windriver, IIRC)
>>>> would complain about something like the above, that's the reason I added
>>>> an explicit value for PAGE_SIZE back then.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Other than being "pretty" the above fix is to remove a mismatch type
>>> warning. You can get rid of the warning in different ways:
>>>
>>> ifdef __ASSEMBLY__
>>> define PAGE_SIZE 4096
>>> else
>>> define PAGE_SIZE 4096UL
>>> endif
>>>
>>>> I assume with the new nios2 GCC this should no longer be necessary and
>>>> Ezequiel's fix should be fine.
>>>
>>> Speaking of GCC... is there a libc available to test this kernel port?
>>> (which I assume uses the generic syscall ABI)
>>
>> It's submitted to libc-alpha, also still review in progress.
>>
>
> Do you plan to support uclibc?

No, we (Mentor Graphics) are only doing glibc work at this point.

Chung-Lin

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