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>
diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig
index ed92864..a0ffb51 100644
--- a/arch/x86/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig
@@ -932,6 +932,9 @@
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)"