[PATCH] of: specify initrd location using 64-bit

Rob Herring robherring2 at gmail.com
Thu Sep 13 08:08:31 EST 2012


On 09/12/2012 02:58 PM, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
> On 09/12/2012 08:02 PM, Cyril Chemparathy wrote:
>>>> -void __init early_init_dt_setup_initrd_arch(unsigned long start,
>>>> unsigned long end)
>>>> +void __init early_init_dt_setup_initrd_arch(u64 start, u64 end)
>>>
>>> Why not phys_addr_t?
>>>
>>
>> The rest of the memory specific bits of the device-tree code use u64 for
>> addresses, and I kept it the same for consistency.
> 
> Geert is right here. If it is a physical address, it should be
> phys_addr_t.

While generally true, for the DT specific code I think it should be a
fixed u64. The size of the address is defined by the FDT, not the
kernel. It is very likely we could have a FDT that specifies addresses
in 64-bit values, but then we boot a kernel is compiled for !LPAE.
phys_addr_t is currently sized based on LPAE setting.

Also, this is how the memory and reserved nodes are handled currently,
so we should be consistent.

Rob



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