[PATCH v3 RESEND 15/17] ARM: mm: use physical addresses in highmem sanity checks

Catalin Marinas catalin.marinas at arm.com
Mon Sep 24 11:18:24 EDT 2012


On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 04:56:13PM +0100, Cyril Chemparathy wrote:
> This patch modifies the highmem sanity checking code to use physical addresses
> instead.  This change eliminates the wrap-around problems associated with the
> original virtual address based checks, and this simplifies the code a bit.

We need some check here that the upper 32-bit of lowmem addresses are
constant.

-- 
Catalin



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