[RFC PATCH v2] Consolidate SRAM support
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
plagnioj at jcrosoft.com
Wed Apr 20 00:06:41 EDT 2011
On 00:20 Wed 20 Apr , Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 09:05:57PM +0200, Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD wrote:
> > On 17:18 Tue 19 Apr , Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> > > On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 06:01:35PM +0200, Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > I do post a patch to add the support to specify a virt and phys
> > > > address to the generic allocator so the pv-pool.c is not needed
> > > > we can just use the generic fucntion
> > >
> > > You've talked about this before in the thread, but the patch never appeared.
> > I forget to re-send it sorry
> > it's the mm tree
>
> One obvious issue here is that you're using 'unsigned long' for phys
> addresses. With LPAE we could start seeing SRAM outside of the 4GB
> PA range, and so would need this to be phys_addr_t.
I'll update it
any other issue?
Best Regards,
J.
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