[PATCH 1/4] ARM: runtime patching of __virt_to_phys() and __phys_to_virt()

David Brown davidb at codeaurora.org
Tue Jan 4 14:00:05 EST 2011


On Tue, Jan 04 2011, Nicolas Pitre wrote:

> On Tue, 4 Jan 2011, David Brown wrote:
>
>> Any idea how much it would hurt other targets to have the
>> __virt_to_phys() and __phys_to_virt() have a 16-bit fixup, even if only
>> the upper 8 bits are used?
>
> Probably not that much.  But let's make it work satisfactorily for the 
> general case first, and then we might consider and test variations that 
> could accommodate msm.

Sounds like a good plan.  We've got quite a few other things to clean up
before we can build for more than one arch anyway.

David

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