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add phys_addr_t for holding physical addresses

PATCH Applied Jeremy Fitzhardinge 1 participant 1 message Sep 11, 2008

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PATCH 1/3 add phys_addr_t for holding physical addresses

Add a kernel-wide "phys_addr_t" which is guaranteed to be able to hold any physical address. By default it equals the word size of the architecture, but a 32-bit architecture can set ARCH_PHYS_ADDR_T_64BIT if it needs a 64-bit phys_addr_t.

Cc Paul Mackerras <[email protected]>
Cc Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[email protected]>
---
 arch/powerpc/Kconfig             |    3 +++
 arch/powerpc/include/asm/types.h |    7 -------
 arch/x86/Kconfig                 |    3 +++
 include/asm-x86/page_32.h        |    2 --
 include/asm-x86/page_64.h        |    1 -
 include/linux/types.h            |    6 ++++++
 mm/Kconfig                       |    3 +++
 7 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

===================================================================

arch/powerpc/Kconfig +3 -0
@@ -21,6 +21,9 @@
 
 config PPC_MERGE
 	def_bool y
+
+config ARCH_PHYS_ADDR_T_64BIT
+       def_bool PPC64 || PHYS_64BIT
 
 config MMU
 	bool

===================================================================

arch/powerpc/include/asm/types.h +0 -7
@@ -48,13 +48,6 @@
 
 typedef __vector128 vector128;
 
-/* Physical address used by some IO functions */
-#if defined(CONFIG_PPC64) || defined(CONFIG_PHYS_64BIT)
-typedef u64 phys_addr_t;
-#else
-typedef u32 phys_addr_t;
-#endif
-
 #ifdef __powerpc64__
 typedef u64 dma_addr_t;
 #else

===================================================================

arch/x86/Kconfig +3 -0
@@ -992,6 +992,9 @@
 	  has the cost of more pagetable lookup overhead, and also
 	  consumes more pagetable space per process.
 
+config ARCH_PHYS_ADDR_T_64BIT
+       def_bool X86_64 || X86_PAE
+
 # Common NUMA Features
 config NUMA
 	bool "Numa Memory Allocation and Scheduler Support (EXPERIMENTAL)"

===================================================================

include/asm-x86/page_32.h +0 -2
@@ -33,7 +33,6 @@
 typedef u64	pudval_t;
 typedef u64	pgdval_t;
 typedef u64	pgprotval_t;
-typedef u64	phys_addr_t;
 
 typedef union {
 	struct {
@@ -54,7 +53,6 @@
 typedef unsigned long	pudval_t;
 typedef unsigned long	pgdval_t;
 typedef unsigned long	pgprotval_t;
-typedef unsigned long	phys_addr_t;
 
 typedef union {
 	pteval_t pte;

===================================================================

include/asm-x86/page_64.h +0 -1
@@ -79,7 +79,6 @@
 typedef unsigned long	pudval_t;
 typedef unsigned long	pgdval_t;
 typedef unsigned long	pgprotval_t;
-typedef unsigned long	phys_addr_t;
 
 typedef struct page *pgtable_t;
 

===================================================================

include/linux/types.h +6 -0
@@ -197,6 +197,12 @@
 typedef u32 resource_size_t;
 #endif
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_PHYS_ADDR_T_64BIT
+typedef u64 phys_addr_t;
+#else
+typedef u32 phys_addr_t;
+#endif
+
 struct ustat {
 	__kernel_daddr_t	f_tfree;
 	__kernel_ino_t		f_tinode;

===================================================================

mm/Kconfig +3 -0
@@ -190,6 +190,9 @@
 	help
 	  This option allows memory and IO resources to be 64 bit.
 
+config PHYS_ADDR_T_64BIT
+	def_bool 64BIT || ARCH_PHYS_ADDR_T_64BIT
+
 config ZONE_DMA_FLAG
 	int
 	default "0" if !ZONE_DMA