From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 01/19] ARM: Make the argument to virt_to_phys() "const volatile"
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2011 11:00:10 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201101251100.11052.arnd@arndb.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D3DD0D8.10905@codeaurora.org>
On Monday 24 January 2011, Stephen Boyd wrote:
> On 01/24/2011 09:55 AM, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> > Changing the virt_to_phys() argument to "const volatile void *" avoids
> > compiler warnings in some situations where this function is used.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
> > Cc: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org>
> > Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
> Acked-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org>
>
> Any chance we can get this one patch into 2.6.38? It fixes a warning for
> MSM.
Stephen, you might want to have a look at why the warning even appears
on MSM. Most uses of 'volatile' are misguided, and there could be an
actual bug in there.
Arnd
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-01-25 10:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 59+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-01-24 17:55 [PATCH v4 00/19] ARM: Add support for the Large Physical Address Extensions Catalin Marinas
2011-01-24 17:55 ` [PATCH v4 01/19] ARM: Make the argument to virt_to_phys() "const volatile" Catalin Marinas
2011-01-24 19:19 ` Stephen Boyd
2011-01-24 23:38 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-01-25 10:00 ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
2011-01-25 10:29 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-01-25 14:14 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-01-24 17:55 ` [PATCH v4 02/19] ARM: LPAE: Fix early_pte_alloc() assumption about the Linux PTE Catalin Marinas
2011-02-12 9:56 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-01-24 17:55 ` [PATCH v4 03/19] ARM: LPAE: use long long format when printing physical addresses and ptes Catalin Marinas
2011-02-12 9:59 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-01-24 17:55 ` [PATCH v4 04/19] ARM: LPAE: Use PMD_(SHIFT|SIZE|MASK) instead of PGDIR_* Catalin Marinas
2011-01-24 17:55 ` [PATCH v4 05/19] ARM: LPAE: Factor out 2-level page table definitions into separate files Catalin Marinas
2011-01-24 17:55 ` [PATCH v4 06/19] ARM: LPAE: Add (pte|pmd|pgd|pgprot)val_t type definitions as u32 Catalin Marinas
2011-02-03 17:13 ` Catalin Marinas
2011-01-24 17:55 ` [PATCH v4 07/19] ARM: LPAE: Use a mask for physical addresses in page table entries Catalin Marinas
2011-01-24 17:55 ` [PATCH v4 08/19] ARM: LPAE: Introduce the 3-level page table format definitions Catalin Marinas
2011-01-24 21:26 ` Nick Piggin
2011-01-24 21:42 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-01-25 10:04 ` Catalin Marinas
2011-03-21 12:36 ` Catalin Marinas
2011-03-21 12:56 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-03-21 13:19 ` Catalin Marinas
2011-02-03 17:11 ` Catalin Marinas
2011-01-24 17:55 ` [PATCH v4 09/19] ARM: LPAE: Page table maintenance for the 3-level format Catalin Marinas
2011-02-03 17:09 ` Catalin Marinas
2011-02-03 17:56 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-02-03 22:00 ` Catalin Marinas
2011-01-24 17:55 ` [PATCH v4 10/19] ARM: LPAE: MMU setup for the 3-level page table format Catalin Marinas
2011-01-24 17:55 ` [PATCH v4 11/19] ARM: LPAE: Add fault handling support Catalin Marinas
2011-01-24 17:55 ` [PATCH v4 12/19] ARM: LPAE: Add context switching support Catalin Marinas
2011-02-12 10:44 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-02-14 13:24 ` Catalin Marinas
2011-02-19 18:30 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-02-19 23:16 ` Catalin Marinas
2011-01-24 17:55 ` [PATCH v4 13/19] ARM: LPAE: Add identity mapping support for the 3-level page table format Catalin Marinas
2011-01-24 17:55 ` [PATCH v4 14/19] ARM: LPAE: Add SMP " Catalin Marinas
2011-01-24 17:55 ` [PATCH v4 15/19] ARM: LPAE: use phys_addr_t instead of unsigned long for physical addresses Catalin Marinas
2011-02-12 10:28 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-02-15 11:52 ` Will Deacon
2011-02-15 12:35 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-02-15 12:39 ` Catalin Marinas
2011-02-15 13:37 ` Will Deacon
2011-02-15 14:23 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-02-15 15:26 ` Will Deacon
2011-02-15 15:48 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-02-19 18:26 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-02-21 14:36 ` Will Deacon
2011-02-21 14:58 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-02-21 15:01 ` Will Deacon
2011-01-24 17:55 ` [PATCH v4 16/19] ARM: LPAE: Use generic dma_addr_t type definition Catalin Marinas
2011-02-12 10:34 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-02-14 13:01 ` Catalin Marinas
2011-02-15 14:27 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-02-15 15:24 ` Catalin Marinas
2011-01-24 17:55 ` [PATCH v4 17/19] ARM: LPAE: mark memory banks with start > ULONG_MAX as highmem Catalin Marinas
2011-02-12 10:36 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-01-24 17:56 ` [PATCH v4 18/19] ARM: LPAE: add support for ATAG_MEM64 Catalin Marinas
2011-01-24 17:56 ` [PATCH v4 19/19] ARM: LPAE: Add the Kconfig entries Catalin Marinas
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