On Tue, 31 Jul 2012, Cyril Chemparathy wrote:
> From: Vitaly Andrianov <[email protected]>
>
> 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 <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Cyril Chemparathy <[email protected]>
> ---
> 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?
Nicolas
On 8/4/2012 2:57 AM, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> On Tue, 31 Jul 2012, Cyril Chemparathy wrote:
>
>> From: Vitaly Andrianov <[email protected]>
>>
>> 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 <[email protected]>
>> Signed-off-by: Cyril Chemparathy <[email protected]>
>> ---
>> 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