Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754018Ab3F0Uy0 (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Jun 2013 16:54:26 -0400 Received: from mail-yh0-f43.google.com ([209.85.213.43]:63804 "EHLO mail-yh0-f43.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753249Ab3F0UyZ (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Jun 2013 16:54:25 -0400 Message-ID: <51CCA67C.2010803@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2013 15:54:20 -0500 From: Rob Herring User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130510 Thunderbird/17.0.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Santosh Shilimkar CC: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Vineet Gupta , Russell King , Catalin Marinas , Will Deacon , Mark Salter , Aurelien Jacquiot , James Hogan , Michal Simek , Ralf Baechle , Jonas Bonn , Benjamin Herrenschmidt , Paul Mackerras , x86@kernel.org, arm@kernel.org, Chris Zankel , Max Filippov , Grant Likely , Rob Herring , Nicolas Pitre , linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-c6x-dev@linux-c6x.org, linux-mips@linux-mips.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-xtensa@linux-xtensa.org, devicetree-discuss@lists.ozlabs.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] of: Specify initrd location using 64-bit References: <1371775956-16453-1-git-send-email-santosh.shilimkar@ti.com> <51C4171C.9050908@linutronix.de> <51C48B5A.2040404@ti.com> In-Reply-To: <51C48B5A.2040404@ti.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2017 Lines: 46 On 06/21/2013 12:20 PM, Santosh Shilimkar wrote: > On Friday 21 June 2013 05:04 AM, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote: >> On 06/21/2013 02:52 AM, Santosh Shilimkar wrote: >>> diff --git a/arch/microblaze/kernel/prom.c b/arch/microblaze/kernel/prom.c >>> index 0a2c68f..62e2e8f 100644 >>> --- a/arch/microblaze/kernel/prom.c >>> +++ b/arch/microblaze/kernel/prom.c >>> @@ -136,8 +136,7 @@ void __init early_init_devtree(void *params) >>> } >>> >>> #ifdef CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD >>> -void __init early_init_dt_setup_initrd_arch(unsigned long start, >>> - unsigned long end) >>> +void __init early_init_dt_setup_initrd_arch(u64 start, u64 end) >>> { >>> initrd_start = (unsigned long)__va(start); >>> initrd_end = (unsigned long)__va(end); >> >> I think it would better to go here for phys_addr_t instead of u64. This >> would force you in of_flat_dt_match() to check if the value passed from >> DT specifies a memory address outside of 32bit address space and the >> kernel can't deal with this because its phys_addr_t is 32bit only due >> to a Kconfig switch. >> >> For x86, the initrd has to remain in the 32bit address space so passing >> the initrd in the upper range would violate the ABI. Not sure if this >> is true for other archs as well (ARM obviously not). >> > That pretty much means phys_addr_t. It will work for me as well but > in last thread from consistency with memory and reserved node, Rob > insisted to keep it as u64. So before I re-spin another version, > would like to here what Rob has to say considering the x86 requirement. > > Rob, > Are you ok with phys_addr_t since your concern was about rest > of the memory specific bits of the device-tree code use u64 ? No. I still think it should be u64 for same reasons I said originally. Rob -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/