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From: gregkh@linuxfoundation•org (gregkh at linuxfoundation.org)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists•infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH v3] staging: fsl-mc: use 32bits to support 64K size mc-portals
Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2017 16:58:48 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171124155848.GA8630@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5A155642.70809@nxp.com>

On Wed, Nov 22, 2017 at 10:49:50AM +0000, Laurentiu Tudor wrote:
> 
> 
> On 11/22/2017 09:48 AM, Bharat Bhushan wrote:
> > As per APIs each mc-portal is of 64K size while currently
> > 16bits (type u16) is used to store size of mc-portal.
> > In these cases upper bit of portal size gets truncated.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Bharat Bhushan <Bharat.Bhushan@nxp•com>
> > ---
> 
> Ok, so just to clarify this fixes the case where size is equal (or maybe 
> larger in the future) to 0x10000.

Is this something that can happen today?  Is this needed in 4.14 to fix
a problem people are having and need to be backported to stable, or can
it wait until 4.15?

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2017-11-24 15:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-11-22  7:48 [PATCH v3] staging: fsl-mc: use 32bits to support 64K size mc-portals Bharat Bhushan
2017-11-22 10:49 ` Laurentiu Tudor
2017-11-24 15:58   ` gregkh at linuxfoundation.org [this message]
2017-11-24 16:00     ` Bharat Bhushan

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