Re: [PATCH v5 1/4] ARM: LPAE: Use phys_addr_t instead of unsigned long in outercache hooks

[Arnd Bergmann <arnd@kernel.org>]

On Sat, Jan 16, 2021 at 4:27 AM Zhen Lei <thunder.leizhen@huawei.com> wrote:
>
> The outercache of some Hisilicon SOCs support physical addresses wider
> than 32-bits. The unsigned long datatype is not sufficient for mapping
> physical addresses >= 4GB. The commit ad6b9c9d78b9 ("ARM: 6671/1: LPAE:
> use phys_addr_t instead of unsigned long in outercache functions") has
> already modified the outercache functions. But the parameters of the
> outercache hooks are not changed. This patch use phys_addr_t instead of
> unsigned long in outercache hooks: inv_range, clean_range, flush_range.
>
> To ensure the outercache that does not support LPAE works properly, do
> cast phys_addr_t to unsigned long by adding a group of temporary
> variables. For example:
> -static void l2c220_inv_range(unsigned long start, unsigned long end)
> +static void l2c220_inv_range(phys_addr_t pa_start, phys_addr_t pa_end)
>  {
> +       unsigned long start = pa_start;
> +       unsigned long end = pa_end;
>
> Note that the outercache functions have been doing this cast before this
> patch. So now, the cast is just moved into the outercache hook functions.
>
> No functional change.
>
> Signed-off-by: Zhen Lei <thunder.leizhen@huawei.com>

Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>

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