Re: [PATCH 1/6] x86: Change get_max_mapped() to inline

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Wed Dec 29 2010 - 18:06:18 EST


On 12/27/2010 04:47 PM, Yinghai Lu wrote:
>
> Move it into head file. to prepare use it in other files.
>
> Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> ---
> arch/x86/include/asm/page_types.h | 5 +++++
> arch/x86/kernel/setup.c | 9 ---------
> 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
>
> Index: linux-2.6/arch/x86/include/asm/page_types.h
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6.orig/arch/x86/include/asm/page_types.h
> +++ linux-2.6/arch/x86/include/asm/page_types.h
> @@ -45,6 +45,11 @@ extern int devmem_is_allowed(unsigned lo
> extern unsigned long max_low_pfn_mapped;
> extern unsigned long max_pfn_mapped;
>
> +static inline u64 get_max_mapped(void)
> +{
> + return (u64)max_pfn_mapped<<PAGE_SHIFT;
> +}
> +
> extern unsigned long init_memory_mapping(unsigned long start,
> unsigned long end);
>

This is broken. <asm/page_types.h> doesn't include <linux/types.h>
which is required for the u64 type -- a simple compile test would have
told you this. Furthermore, it seems to me that it would make more
sense for this to be phys_addr_t instead of u64; would you agree?

-hpa
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