[PATCH 09/22] ARM: LPAE: use 64-bit pgd physical address in switch_mm()

Nicolas Pitre nicolas.pitre at linaro.org
Sat Aug 4 03:04:56 EDT 2012


On Tue, 31 Jul 2012, Cyril Chemparathy wrote:

> This patch modifies the switch_mm() processor functions to use 64-bit
> addresses.  We use u64 instead of phys_addr_t, in order to avoid having config
> dependent register usage when calling into switch_mm assembly code.
> 
> The changes in this patch are primarily adjustments for registers used for
> arguments to switch_mm.  The few processor definitions that did use the second
> argument have been modified accordingly.
> 
> Arguments and calling conventions aside, this patch should be a no-op on v6
> and non-LPAE v7 processors. 

NAK.

You just broke all big endian targets, LPAE or not.


Nicolas



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