Thread (32 messages) 32 messages, 9 authors, 2016-12-07

Re: [PATCHv4 07/10] kexec: Switch to __pa_symbol

From: Dave Young <hidden>
Date: 2016-12-01 02:41:20
Also in: kexec, linux-arm-kernel, lkml

Hi, Laura
On 11/29/16 at 10:55am, Laura Abbott wrote:
__pa_symbol is the correct api to get the physical address of kernel
symbols. Switch to it to allow for better debug checking.
I assume __pa_symbol is faster than __pa, but it still need some testing
on all arches which support kexec.

But seems long long ago there is a commit e3ebadd95cb in the commit log
I see below from:
"we should deprecate __pa_symbol(), and preferably __pa() too - and
 just use "virt_to_phys()" instead, which is is more readable and has
 nicer semantics."

But maybe in modern code __pa_symbol is prefered I may miss background.
virt_to_phys still sounds more readable now for me though.
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
Signed-off-by: Laura Abbott <redacted>
---
Found during review of the kernel. Untested.
---
 kernel/kexec_core.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/kernel/kexec_core.c b/kernel/kexec_core.c
index 5616755..e1b625e 100644
--- a/kernel/kexec_core.c
+++ b/kernel/kexec_core.c
@@ -1397,7 +1397,7 @@ void __weak arch_crash_save_vmcoreinfo(void)
 
 phys_addr_t __weak paddr_vmcoreinfo_note(void)
 {
-	return __pa((unsigned long)(char *)&vmcoreinfo_note);
+	return __pa_symbol((unsigned long)(char *)&vmcoreinfo_note);
 }
 
 static int __init crash_save_vmcoreinfo_init(void)
-- 
2.7.4


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Thanks
Dave

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