Re: [PATCH] cleanup hardcoding __pa/__va macros etc. (take-2)

[Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp>]

On Tue, 26 Sep 2006 11:22:26 +0900, girish <girishvg@gmail.com> wrote:
> The idea is to differentiate the Kseg0/Kseg1 segments in the physical area.
> Beyond these areas lies the mapped area (or the HIGHMEM). What complicates
> this matter further is their overlapping nature. The __pa()/__va() treated
> all addresses mapped into PAGE_OFFSET (8000_0000) area. The effort is to
> correctly differentiate these areas.

Yes, __va() and __pa() are used to convert an physical address from/to
an kernel logical address (i.e. low unmapped virtual address).

I think passing another sort of addresses to them is simply wrong.

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Atsushi Nemoto