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Date:	Mon, 5 Oct 2009 07:54:42 -0400 (EDT)
From:	Sreenivasa Honnur <Sreenivasa.Honnur@...erion.com>
To:	davem@...emloft.net
cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, support@...erion.com
Subject: [net-next-2.6 PATCH 4/9] vxge: Fixed crash in PAE system due to
 wrong typecasting.

- Fix a crash in PAE system due to wrong typecasting.

- On PAE system size_t is unsigned int which is 32bit. Avoid casting
  64 bit address to 32 bit

Signed-off-by: Sreenivasa Honnur <sreenivasa.honnur@...erion.com>
---
diff -urpN patch3/drivers/net/vxge/vxge-traffic.c patch4/drivers/net/vxge/vxge-traffic.c
--- patch3/drivers/net/vxge/vxge-traffic.c	2009-09-04 01:19:23.000000000 -0700
+++ patch4/drivers/net/vxge/vxge-traffic.c	2009-09-04 01:22:35.000000000 -0700
@@ -1232,7 +1232,7 @@ void vxge_hw_fifo_txdl_post(struct __vxg
 	vxge_hw_channel_dtr_post(&fifo->channel, txdlh);
 
 	__vxge_hw_non_offload_db_post(fifo,
-		(u64)(size_t)txdl_priv->dma_addr,
+		(u64)txdl_priv->dma_addr,
 		txdl_priv->frags - 1,
 		fifo->no_snoop_bits);
 

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