[Xen-devel] [PATCH 4/8] kexec: add infrastructure for handling kexec images

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



>>> On 09.04.13 at 18:17, David Vrabel <david.vrabel at citrix.com> wrote:
> On 09/04/13 08:44, Jan Beulich wrote:
>>>>> On 08.04.13 at 20:59, David Vrabel <david.vrabel at citrix.com> wrote:
>>> +        ret = kimage_add_page(image, page_to_mfn(page) << PAGE_SHIFT);
>> 
>> Constructs like this aren't portable. You ought to use
>> page_to_maddr(), and have the called function have paddr_t
>> instead of unsigned long as the respective parameter.
> 
> I will make this change but it isn't clear to me why this isn't portable.

Because left shifting an unsigned long may shift out significant bits,
namely on 32-bit architectures (and the code here is - iirc - living
under xen/common/).

Jan




[Index of Archives]     [LM Sensors]     [Linux Sound]     [ALSA Users]     [ALSA Devel]     [Linux Audio Users]     [Linux Media]     [Kernel]     [Gimp]     [Yosemite News]     [Linux Media]

  Powered by Linux