[PATCHv4 1/4] arm64: make phys_offset signed

Simon Horman horms at verge.net.au
Mon Jan 24 00:58:09 PST 2022


On Fri, Jan 21, 2022 at 09:38:49AM +0800, Pingfan Liu wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 21, 2022 at 2:09 AM Philipp Rudo <prudo at redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Pingfan,
> >
> > On Tue, 18 Jan 2022 15:48:09 +0800
> > Pingfan Liu <piliu at redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> > > After kernel commit 7bc1a0f9e176 ("arm64: mm: use single quantity to
> > > represent the PA to VA translation"), phys_offset can be negative if
> > > running 52-bits kernel on 48-bits hardware.
> > >
> > > So changing phys_offset from unsigned to signed.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Pingfan Liu <piliu at redhat.com>
> > > Cc: Kairui Song <kasong at tencent.com>
> > > Cc: Simon Horman <horms at verge.net.au>
> > > Cc: Philipp Rudo <prudo at redhat.com>
> > > To: kexec at lists.infradead.org
> > > ---
> > >  kexec/arch/arm64/kexec-arm64.c | 12 ++++++------
> > >  kexec/arch/arm64/kexec-arm64.h |  2 +-
> > >  util_lib/elf_info.c            |  2 +-
> > >  util_lib/include/elf_info.h    |  2 +-
> > >  4 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
> > >
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > > diff --git a/kexec/arch/arm64/kexec-arm64.h b/kexec/arch/arm64/kexec-arm64.h
> > > index ed447ac..1844b67 100644
> > > --- a/kexec/arch/arm64/kexec-arm64.h
> > > +++ b/kexec/arch/arm64/kexec-arm64.h
> > > @@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ extern off_t initrd_size;
> > >   */
> > >
> > >  struct arm64_mem {
> > > -     uint64_t phys_offset;
> > > +     long phys_offset;
> >
> > I think this one should be int64_t as well.
> >
> Yes, you are right. Thanks for your careful review.
> 
> @Simon, could you help to correct it or prefer my V5 to fix it.

I think I can fix this while applying this patchset :)



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