RE: linux 3.6.3 mips64 mtd jffs2 unmount issue

[Jacob Burkholder <jacob.burkholder@blinqnetworks.com>]

> On 10/30/2012 01:09 AM, Jayachandran C. wrote:
> [...]
>
> >
> > We had seen the same issue here, and worked around it the same way
> > (i.e use dynamic allocation for the backing dev structures).
> >
> > I ran across a similar issue in using built-in DTB (basically, kernel
> > data address does not work for virt_to_phys/phys_to_virt in 64-bit
> > when the load address is in CKSEG0).  There I did something like this:
> >
> > ptr = phys_to_virt(__pa(kernel_data_ptr));
> >
> > This works since __pa knows about CKSEG0 addresses in 64bit.
> >
> >
>
> Really the proper fix is to make virt_to_phys() work.  This isn't the only 
> case where we have seen failures due to this issue:
>
>
> http://www.linux-mips.org/archives/linux-mips/2011-09/msg00029.html
>
> I fixed it like this...
>
> In io.h:
>
> static inline unsigned long virt_to_phys(volatile const void *address)
> {
>       return __pa(address);
> }
>
> Really this needs to be pushed upstream by somebody.
>
 
Thanks, this makes sense and seems a good fix.  I had some problems with
twisty includes because page.h includes io.h.  Did you move the definition
of __pa also?
 
Anyway, if this can be pushed to master and merged to linux-stable I'll
pick it up.
 
Jake