From: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
To: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: remove __phys_reloc_hide
Date: Mon, 09 Aug 2010 16:04:45 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1281337485.976.24.camel@leonhard> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100809064441.GC29524@basil.fritz.box>
> It hides the value conversion from the compiler through asm()
>
> -Andi
>
Yes, indeed. But for what? __pa_symbol() is just used to get the address
of some linker symbols in forms of unsigned long which has same bit
representation as pointer in x86 (and all supported archs). So do we
still need it or am I missing something?
--
Regards,
Namhyung Kim
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-08-09 7:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-08-08 21:38 [PATCH] x86: remove __phys_reloc_hide Namhyung Kim
2010-08-09 6:22 ` Andi Kleen
2010-08-09 6:40 ` Namhyung Kim
2010-08-09 6:44 ` Andi Kleen
2010-08-09 7:04 ` Namhyung Kim [this message]
2010-08-09 7:22 ` Andi Kleen
2010-08-09 7:47 ` Namhyung Kim
2010-08-09 18:56 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-08-10 7:05 ` Ingo Molnar
2010-08-10 10:46 ` Namhyung Kim
2010-08-11 5:44 ` Namhyung Kim
2010-08-11 19:09 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-08-11 6:37 ` [PATCH] x86: add a comment to __pa_symbol Namhyung Kim
2010-08-11 7:44 ` [tip:x86/urgent] x86: Document __phys_reloc_hide() usage in __pa_symbol() tip-bot for Namhyung Kim
2018-06-19 23:00 ` [PATCH] x86: remove __phys_reloc_hide Thomas Gleixner
2010-08-09 8:07 ` Ingo Molnar
2010-08-09 18:56 ` H. Peter Anvin
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