From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: linux@arm.linux.org.uk (Russell King - ARM Linux) Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2013 21:25:23 +0000 Subject: [PATCH 1/2] mm/ARM: dma: fix conflicting types for 'arm_dma_zone_size' In-Reply-To: <1386703798-26521-2-git-send-email-santosh.shilimkar@ti.com> References: <1386703798-26521-1-git-send-email-santosh.shilimkar@ti.com> <1386703798-26521-2-git-send-email-santosh.shilimkar@ti.com> Message-ID: <20131210212523.GE4360@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 02:29:57PM -0500, Santosh Shilimkar wrote: > diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/dma.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/dma.h > index 58b8c6a..1439b80 100644 > --- a/arch/arm/include/asm/dma.h > +++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/dma.h > @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ > #define MAX_DMA_ADDRESS 0xffffffffUL > #else > #define MAX_DMA_ADDRESS ({ \ > - extern unsigned long arm_dma_zone_size; \ > + extern phys_addr_t arm_dma_zone_size; \ > arm_dma_zone_size ? \ > (PAGE_OFFSET + arm_dma_zone_size) : 0xffffffffUL; }) This is wrong. Take a moment to look at it more closely. What does "PAGE_OFFSET" tell you about what its returning? What happens if arm_dma_zone_size is greater than 1GB when PAGE_OFFSET is at the default setting of 3GB?