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

From: Santosh Shilimkar
Date: Tue Dec 04 2012 - 10:00:05 EST


On Tuesday 04 December 2012 06:37 PM, Michal Nazarewicz wrote:
On Monday 03 December 2012 09:16 PM, Vitaly Andrianov wrote:
This patch fixes a couple of bugs that otherwise impair CMA functionality on
PAE machines:

- alignment must be a 64-bit type when running on systems with 64-bit
physical addresses. If this is not the case, the limit calculation thunks
allocations down to an address range < 4G.

- The allocated range check is removed. On 32bit ARM kernel with LPAE
enabled the base may be allocated outside the fist 4GB of physical
memory (keystone SoC for example).

On Tue, Dec 04 2012, Santosh Shilimkar wrote:
Any reason you have clubbed two fixes in one patch. Its better to keep
the two fixes separate patches.

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.

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.

Regards
Santosh
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/