On Sun, 2012-09-30 at 17:28 -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> asm/page.h discusses the calculation for v2p and p2v, it should be:
>  va = pa + KERNELBASE - PHYSICAL_START
> which is the same as:
>  va = pa + LOAD_OFFSET
> 
> tophys/tovirt were using PAGE_OFFSET, which as page.h says, is almost
> always the same thing.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jguntho...@obsidianresearch.com>

It's a bit gross tho in that KERNEL_BASE, PHYSICAL_START and LOAD_OFFSET
are about where the kernel is linked/running, and while the value ends
up happening to also be the p->v offset (and indeed not by accident), it
makes the code less clear and more confusing.

I think the main issue is that we did things wrong when implementing
non-0 based setups. PAGE_OFFSET should have remained what its name
implies which is the offset between p and v.

I don't have the bandwidth to revisit all that, but I really think that
whole are area where PAGE_OFFSET doesn't map 0 needs revisiting.

Ben.

> ---
>  arch/powerpc/include/asm/ppc_asm.h |    4 ++--
>  1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/ppc_asm.h 
> b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/ppc_asm.h
> index ea2a86e..44edc3a 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/ppc_asm.h
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/ppc_asm.h
> @@ -461,14 +461,14 @@ END_FTR_SECTION_IFCLR(CPU_FTR_601)
>  #define fromreal(rd) tovirt(rd,rd)
>  
>  #define tophys(rd,rs)                                \
> -0:   addis   rd,rs,-PAGE_OFFSET@h;           \
> +0:   addis   rd,rs,-LOAD_OFFSET@h;           \
>       .section ".vtop_fixup","aw";            \
>       .align  1;                              \
>       .long   0b;                             \
>       .previous
>  
>  #define tovirt(rd,rs)                                \
> -0:   addis   rd,rs,PAGE_OFFSET@h;            \
> +0:   addis   rd,rs,LOAD_OFFSET@h;            \
>       .section ".ptov_fixup","aw";            \
>       .align  1;                              \
>       .long   0b;                             \


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