Re: [linux-keystone] [PATCH v2] drivers: cma: fix addressing on PAE machines

[Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com>]

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> On Tuesday 04 December 2012 06:37 PM, Michal Nazarewicz wrote:
>> They are all related to the very same issue, and what the whole patch
>> does is change the type used to store physical addresses from unsigned
>> long to phys_addr_t.  This is really a single change.

On Tue, Dec 04 2012, Santosh Shilimkar wrote:
> Thanks for clarification. 64 bit alignment fix and the allocation
> range checks can be two separate fixes and that is exactly what change
> log describes.  You have a last say though :-) No problem if you want
> to commit the patch as is.

I don't have strong feelings on this one, but I feel like it's really
a single change which manifests itself in a few ways.  If this is
confusing, maybe commit message could be improved, to something like:

------------- >8 -------------------------------------------------------
drivers: cma: represent physicall addresses as phys_addr_t

This commit changes the CMA early initialisation code to use phys_addr_t
for representing physical addresses instead of unsigned long.

Without this change, among other things, dma_declare_contiguous() simply
discards any memory regions whose address is not represtible as unsigned
long.

This is a problem on 32-bit PAE machines where unsigned long is 32-bit
but physical address space is larger.
------------- 8< -------------------------------------------------------

Vitaly, if you could resend with that description, it would be awesome,
and sorry for so much trouble in what appears to be a trivial patch. :P

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