Messages in this thread | | | From | Rob Herring <> | Date | Tue, 27 Oct 2015 15:46:45 -0500 | Subject | Re: [PATCH] of/fdt: fix error checking for earlycon address |
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On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 8:15 AM, Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com> wrote: > Hi Masahiro, > > On 10/23/2015 07:47 AM, Masahiro Yamada wrote: >> fdt_translate_address() returns OF_BAD_ADDR on error. It is defined as >> a u64 value, so the variable "addr" should be defined as u64 as well. > > Good catch. > > I would prefer if fdt_translate_address() returned resource_size_t (which > is the proper type for handling addresses as integers) and that type > was propagated through early_init_dt_scan_chosen_serial => of_setup_earlycon.
That can be problematic in the DT code. The size of resource_size_t can vary on 32-bit as it is based on phys_addr_t which in turn is based on CONFIG_LPAE setting. However, the address sizes in DT are fixed and may be 64-bit. So we stick with u64 in the DT code.
Rob
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