[PATCH] dma: use %pa to print dma_addr_t

Russell King - ARM Linux linux at arm.linux.org.uk
Thu Sep 12 13:35:54 EDT 2013


On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 10:11:44AM -0700, Olof Johansson wrote:
> Any >32bit-addressable machine will likely want 64-bit dma_addr_t as
> well. The only architecture that doesn't seem to set
> ARCH_DMA_ADDR_T_64BIT based on PHYS_ADDR_T size is ARM, and I think
> that should just be changed there as well.

Do we actually have any 64-bit DMA controllers out there?  As far as
I'm aware, all our DMA controllers are all 32-bit address only.  That
makes a 64-bit dma_addr_t rather silly.

Remember that dma_addr_t is the value you program into the DMA
controller, and _not_ the actual physical address.



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