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From: Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@linux-mips.org>,
	Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>,
	linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Subject: Re: Modpost warning on Alchemy
Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2007 20:01:40 +0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <46B0AE64.7060004@ru.mvista.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070801165812.3bdb269f@the-village.bc.nu>

Alan Cox wrote:

>>>>    Even on a CPU with 36-bit physical address? ;-)

>>>Nope. This is one problem for example with ioremap on a Pentium Pro.

>> Well, but we only consider MIPS processors here which do not have such 
>>odd restrictions resulting from bad design decisions in the past. ;-)  
>>The 32-bit TLB entry format allows for up to 36 bits of the physical 
>>address space (34 bits if support for the page size of 1kB has been 

> So does the Pentium Pro. We can map 36bit physical addresses.

>>enabled).  For anything beyond that you need a 64-bit MIPS processor using 
>>the 64-bit TLB entry format.

> Your problem is a little higher up the stack. ioremap takes an unsigned
> long, which on a 32bit system usually means you can't give it a 36bit bus
> address to remap.

    It takes phys_t, which is 'unsigned long long' for this platform that has 
CONFIG_64BUIT_PHYS_ADDR=y. The reall issue is the size.

> Alan

WBR, Sergei

      parent reply	other threads:[~2007-08-01 16:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-08-01 11:52 Modpost warning on Alchemy Ralf Baechle
2007-08-01 12:23 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2007-08-01 12:53   ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2007-08-01 13:13     ` Sergei Shtylyov
2007-08-01 13:18       ` Sergei Shtylyov
2007-08-01 15:38         ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2007-08-01 15:44           ` Sergei Shtylyov
2007-08-01 16:26             ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2007-08-01 16:37               ` Sergei Shtylyov
2007-08-01 16:54                 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2007-08-01 17:06                   ` Sergei Shtylyov
2007-08-02  9:14                     ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2007-08-02 12:49                       ` Sergei Shtylyov
2007-08-02 13:27                         ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2007-08-02 14:15                           ` Sergei Shtylyov
2007-08-02 14:33                             ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2007-08-01 17:10                   ` Alan Cox
2007-08-02  9:24                     ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2007-08-01 17:09                 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2007-08-02  9:39                   ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2007-08-02 10:15                     ` Ralf Baechle
2007-08-02 10:17                       ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2007-08-02 12:53                     ` Sergei Shtylyov
2007-08-02 13:00                       ` Sergei Shtylyov
2007-08-02 13:35                       ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2007-08-02 14:10                         ` Sergei Shtylyov
2007-08-02 14:21                           ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2007-08-01 15:39       ` Alan Cox
2007-08-01 15:49         ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2007-08-01 15:58           ` Alan Cox
2007-08-01 16:00             ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2007-08-01 16:21               ` Ralf Baechle
2007-08-01 16:33                 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2007-08-02  9:25                   ` Ralf Baechle
2007-08-02  9:44                     ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2007-08-01 16:01             ` Sergei Shtylyov [this message]

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