[PATCH] uio: Support 36-bit physical addresses on 32-bit systems

[Hans J. Koch]

On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 11:00:55AM -0500, Kumar Gala wrote:
> 
> On Oct 14, 2011, at 1:31 PM, Hans J. Koch wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 10:50:58AM -0500, Kumar Gala wrote:
> >> From: Kai Jiang <Kai.Jiang at freescale.com>
> >> 
> >> To support >32-bit physical addresses for UIO_MEM_PHYS type we need to
> >> extend the width of 'addr' in struct uio_mem.  Numerous platforms like
> >> embedded PPC, ARM, and X86 have support for systems with larger physical
> >> address than logical.
> >> 
> >> Since 'addr' may contain a physical, logical, or virtual address the
> >> easiest solution is to just change the type to 'phys_addr_t' which
> >> should always be greater than or equal to the sizeof(void *) such that
> >> it can properly hold any of the address types.
> >> 
> >> For physical address we can support up to a 44-bit physical address on a
> >> typical 32-bit system as we utilize remap_pfn_range() for the mapping of
> >> the memory region and pfn's are represnted by shifting the address by
> >> the page size (typically 4k).
> >> 
> >> Signed-off-by: Kai Jiang <Kai.Jiang at freescale.com>
> >> Signed-off-by: Minghuan Lian <Minghuan.Lian at freescale.com>
> >> Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak at kernel.crashing.org>
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: "Hans J. Koch" <hjk at hansjkoch.de>
> > 
> > That looks good to me. There's an unnecessary cast (see below), but I fixed that
> > on the way.
> > 
> > Greg, please pull this from branch uio-for-gregkh from
> > 
> > git://hansjkoch.de/git/linux-hjk
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Hans
> 
> I think removing that cast is wrong:
> 
> drivers/uio/uio.c: In function 'uio_vma_fault':
> drivers/uio/uio.c:637:26: warning: cast to pointer from integer of different size

Hmm, on what platform did you see this? I tested on 32bit-x86 and didn't get
any warnings.

Hans