linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/8] IB/cxgb4: Fix formatting of physical address

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Date:	Sun, 27 Oct 2013 22:26:41 +0000
From:	Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
To:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
Cc:	Steve Wise <swise@...lsio.com>, Roland Dreier <roland@...nel.org>,
	Sean Hefty <sean.hefty@...el.com>,
	Hal Rosenstock <hal.rosenstock@...il.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/8] IB/cxgb4: Fix formatting of physical address

On Sun, 2013-10-27 at 15:14 -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Sun, 2013-10-27 at 22:02 +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > On Sun, 2013-10-27 at 14:58 -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> > > On Sun, 2013-10-27 at 21:50 +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > > > Physical addresses may be wider than virtual addresses (e.g. on i386
> > > > with PAE) and must not be formatted with %p.
> > > 
> > > %pa works.  %pa also prefixes with 0x.
> > 
> > Only as long as pci_resource_start() happens to be an lvalue.  I'd
> > rather not introduce that assumption.
> 
> pci_resource_start returns a resource_size_t which is a phys_addr_t.
> 
> Changing that from an lvalue would cause a _lot_ of breakage.

I don't think so.  This doesn't find anything:
    git grep '&[ (]*pci_resource_start'

and I was able to build drivers/{net,pci,scsi}/ successfully with
pci_resource_start() changed to an inline function.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
If at first you don't succeed, you're doing about average.

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