From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: nicolas.pitre@linaro.org (Nicolas Pitre)
Date: Sat, 4 Aug 2012 02:57:25 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: [PATCH 08/22] ARM: LPAE: use phys_addr_t for initrd location
 and size
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On Tue, 31 Jul 2012, Cyril Chemparathy wrote:

> From: Vitaly Andrianov <vitalya@ti.com>
> 
> 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 <vitalya@ti.com>
> Signed-off-by: Cyril Chemparathy <cyril@ti.com>
> ---
>  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