Re: [PATCH] xen_alloc_ptpage: cast PFN_PHYS() argument to unsigned long

[Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>]

* Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com> wrote:

> Currently paravirt_ops alloc_p*() uses u32 for the pfn args. We should 
> change that later, but while the pfn parameter is still u32, we need 
> to cast the PFN_PHYS() argument at xen_alloc_ptpage() to unsigned 
> long, otherwise it will lose bits on the shift.
> 
> I think PFN_PHYS() should behave better when fed with smaller 
> integers, but a cast to unsigned long won't be enough for all cases on 
> 32-bit PAE, and a cast to u64 would be overkill for most users of 
> PFN_PHYS().
> 
> We could have two different flavors of PFN_PHYS: one for low pages 
> only (unsigned long) and another that works for any page (u64)), but 
> while we don't have it, we will need the cast to unsigned long on 
> xen_alloc_ptpage().
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>
> Acked-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>

applied to tip/x86/xen - thanks Eduardo.

	Ingo