[PATCH 1/2] ARM: make virt_to_idmap() return unsigned long

[Russell King - ARM Linux]

On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 08:27:52PM -0800, santosh.shilimkar at oracle.com wrote:
> On 1/26/16 10:21 AM, Russell King wrote:
> >Make virt_to_idmap() return an unsigned long rather than phys_addr_t.
> >
> >Returning phys_addr_t here makes no sense, because the definition of
> >virt_to_idmap() is that it shall return a physical address which maps
> >identically with the virtual address.  Since virtual addresses are
> >limited to 32-bit, identity mapped physical addresses are as well.
> >
> >Almost all users already had an implicit narrowing cast to unsigned long
> >so let's make this official and part of this interface.
> >
> >Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel at arm.linux.org.uk>
> >---
> Looks correct to me.
> 
> Vitaly,
> Could you please try out this patch and see everything continue to
> work ?

I haven't heard anything yet...  Vitaly?

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