[PATCHv2] arm: mm: Use phys_addr_t properly for ioremap functions

Arnd Bergmann arnd at arndb.de
Wed May 15 10:15:39 EDT 2013


On Tuesday 14 May 2013, Laura Abbott wrote:
> Several of the ioremap functions use unsigned long in places
> resulting in truncation if physical addresses greater than
> 4G are passed in. Change the types of the functions and the
> callers accordingly.

Looks good to me. I wonder a bit whether resource_size_t or phys_addr_t
is the right type here, but they are always defined to the same type
these days.

FWIW, x86 and tile use resource_size_t, while a couple of other architectures
use phys_addr_t.

	Arnd



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