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| author | Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> | 2008-09-11 01:31:45 -0700 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2008-09-14 17:24:25 +0200 |
| commit | 600715dcdf567c86f8b2c6173fcfb4b873e25a19 (patch) | |
| tree | c2f3ed1c928d3cc47af0573b56c8da2f1df880a0 /arch/x86/Kconfig | |
| parent | 9dfed08eb4086584205717894177a9ee930c88c4 (diff) | |
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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>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/Kconfig')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/Kconfig | 3 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig index ed92864d1325..a0ffb5188c8c 100644 --- a/arch/x86/Kconfig +++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig @@ -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)" |