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    SubjectRe: [PATCH v2 03/20] ARM: LPAE: use u32 instead of unsigned long for 32-bit ptes
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    On Sunday, November 14, 2010, Russell King - ARM Linux
    <linux@arm.linux.org.uk> wrote:
    > On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 06:00:23PM +0000, Catalin Marinas wrote:
    >> From: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
    >>
    >> When using 2-level paging, pte_t and pmd_t are typedefs for
    >> unsigned long but phys_addr_t is a typedef for u32.
    >>
    >> This patch uses u32 for the page table entry types when
    >> phys_addr_t is not 64-bit, allowing the same conversion
    >> specifier to be used for physical addresses and page table
    >> entries regardless of LPAE.
    >
    > However, code which prints the value of page table entries assumes that
    > they are unsigned long, and places where we store the raw pte value also
    > uses 'unsigned long'.
    >
    > If we're going to make this change, we need to change more places than
    > this patch covers.  grep for pte_val to help find those places.

    Patch 19/20 introduces a common macro for formatting but we should
    probably order the patches a bit to avoid problems if anyone is
    bisecting in the middle of the series.


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    Catalin
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