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author | Taylor Hutt <thutt@chromium.org> | 2012-10-29 05:23:58 +0000 |
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committer | Tom Rini <trini@ti.com> | 2012-11-02 15:20:42 -0700 |
commit | 64738e8ae89214030061f62d6598e837664916c3 (patch) | |
tree | 8196246d368f2ea24a541ef89b2f1b4344ff34ca /include/libata.h | |
parent | b4c5bbce49a081f5d05837ba13ee76afeff72d91 (diff) | |
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ahci: Use virt_to_phys() to denote physical addresses for DMA
Update the assignment of various physical memory buffers used by the
SATA controller to explicitly be denoted as physical addresses.
The memory is identity-mapped, so these function calls are a nop, but
they provide good semantic documentation for any maintainers.
The return value of virt_to_phys() is 'unsigned long'. On machines
where sizeof(unsigned long) != sizeof(pointer), a cast through
(uintptr_t) is needed to appease the compiler due to the potential of
losing the upper 32 bits of the address.
In compilation this scenario, a physical address could be 64-bits, yet
the C pointer environment only allows 32-bit addresses; the constraint
is that pointers cannot address more than 4Gb of memory and if
virt_to_phys() ever returns an out-of-range value for the physical
address, there are issues with emmory mapping which must be solved.
However, since the memory is identify mappeed, there is no problem
introducing the cast: the original pointer will reside in 32-bits, so
the physical address will also be within in 32-bits.
Signed-off-by: Taylor Hutt <thutt@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
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