Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] [powerpc] Change memory_limit from phys_addr_t to unsigned long long

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Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Date
2012-09-07 01:38:28
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Suzuki K. Poulose, 2012-08-21
On Tue, 2012-08-21 at 17:12 +0530, Suzuki K. Poulose wrote:
There are some device-tree nodes, whose values are of type phys_addr_t.
The phys_addr_t is variable sized based on the CONFIG_PHSY_T_64BIT.

Change these to a fixed unsigned long long for consistency.

This patch does the change only for memory_limit.

The following is a list of such variables which need the change:

 1) kernel_end, crashk_size - in arch/powerpc/kernel/machine_kexec.c

 2) (struct resource *)crashk_res.start - We could export a local static
    variable from machine_kexec.c.

Changing the above values might break the kexec-tools. So, I will
fix kexec-tools first to handle the different sized values and then change
 the above.

Suggested-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Suzuki K. Poulose <redacted>
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Breaks the build on some configs (with 32-bit phys_addr_t):

/home/benh/linux-powerpc-test/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom.c: In function
'early_init_devtree':
/home/benh/linux-powerpc-test/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom.c:664:25: error:
comparison of distinct pointer types lacks a cast

I'm fixing that myself this time but please be more careful.

Cheers,
Ben.
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