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authorJeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>2008-09-11 01:31:45 -0700
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2008-09-14 17:24:25 +0200
commit600715dcdf567c86f8b2c6173fcfb4b873e25a19 (patch)
treec2f3ed1c928d3cc47af0573b56c8da2f1df880a0 /arch/x86/Kconfig
parent9dfed08eb4086584205717894177a9ee930c88c4 (diff)
generic: add phys_addr_t for holding physical addresses
Add a kernel-wide "phys_addr_t" which is guaranteed to be able to hold any physical address. By default it equals the word size of the architecture, but a 32-bit architecture can set ARCH_PHYS_ADDR_T_64BIT if it needs a 64-bit phys_addr_t. Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig
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@@ -932,6 +932,9 @@ config X86_PAE
has the cost of more pagetable lookup overhead, and also
consumes more pagetable space per process.
+config ARCH_PHYS_ADDR_T_64BIT
+ def_bool X86_64 || X86_PAE
+
# Common NUMA Features
config NUMA
bool "Numa Memory Allocation and Scheduler Support (EXPERIMENTAL)"