[PATCH V2 55/68] powerpc/mm: VMALLOC abstraction

Michael Neuling mikey at neuling.org
Fri Apr 22 16:52:05 AEST 2016


Aneesh,

I'm not sure why we need this patch.

It seems to be moving the initialisation of some global variables into
init functions from the definitions.  And renames some things.

> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/pci_64.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/pci_64.c
> index 41503d7d53a1..3759df52bd67 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/pci_64.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/pci_64.c
> @@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
>   * ISA drivers use hard coded offsets.  If no ISA bus exists nothing
>   * is mapped on the first 64K of IO space
>   */
> -unsigned long pci_io_base = ISA_IO_BASE;
> +unsigned long pci_io_base;
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL(pci_io_base);
>  
>  static int __init pcibios_init(void)
> @@ -47,6 +47,7 @@ static int __init pcibios_init(void)
>  
>  	printk(KERN_INFO "PCI: Probing PCI hardware\n");
>  
> +	pci_io_base = ISA_IO_BASE;

Did you mean to change this in this patch?  This seems to be a random
change in pci code.

Mikey


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