[PATCH resend] Documentation: arm: Replace use of virt_to_phys with __pa_symbol

Jonathan Corbet corbet at lwn.net
Mon Jul 17 12:44:45 PDT 2017


On Mon, 17 Jul 2017 15:39:28 +0200
Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas at glider.be> wrote:

> All low-level PM/SMP code using virt_to_phys() should actually use
> __pa_symbol() against kernel symbols.  Update the documentation to move
> away from virt_to_phys().
> 
> Cfr. commit 6996cbb2372189f7 ("ARM: 8641/1: treewide: Replace uses of
> virt_to_phys with __pa_symbol")

I was kind of hoping for an ack from somebody on this, but, four months
later, I'll take the absence of complaints as being enough.  Applied,
thanks.

jon



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