From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754547AbYIKKDx (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Sep 2008 06:03:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752186AbYIKKDo (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Sep 2008 06:03:44 -0400 Received: from edna.telenet-ops.be ([195.130.132.58]:48161 "EHLO edna.telenet-ops.be" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752173AbYIKKDo (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Sep 2008 06:03:44 -0400 Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 12:03:36 +0200 (CEST) From: Geert Uytterhoeven To: Jeremy Fitzhardinge cc: Ingo Molnar , Alex Nixon , Andrew Morton , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Linux/MIPS Development Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] Globally defining phys_addr_t In-Reply-To: <48C8D76B.10901@goop.org> Message-ID: References: <48C8D76B.10901@goop.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 11 Sep 2008, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: > This is a repost of a little 3-patch series which Andrew has been > carrying in -mm. It cleans up the definition of phys_addr_t to make it > kernel-wide rather than x86-specific, and fixes up PFN_PHYS() to use it > to avoid address truncation. > > We currently have a few workarounds for this problem in the tree, but > Alex found another bug caused by PFN_PHYS(), so it's probably better if > you bring these patches into tip.git for now. > > PowerPC also defines a phys_addr_t with the same meaning as x86; the > powerpc arch maintainers are happy with these patches. If I'm not mistaking, this is also true for some MIPS machines. Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds