arm64: mm: Represent physical memory with phys_addr_t and resource_size_t
This is a type-correctness cleanup to MMU/boot code that replaces several instances of void * and u64 with phys_addr_t (to represent addresses) and resource_size_t (to represent sizes) to emphasize that the code in question concerns physical memory specifically. The rationale for this change is to improve clarity and readability in a few modules that handle both types (physical and virtual) of address and differentiation is essential. I have left u64 in cases where the address may be either physical or virtual, where the address is exclusively virtual but used in heavy pointer arithmetic, and in cases I may have overlooked. I do not necessarily consider u64 the ideal type in those situations, but it avoids breaking existing semantics in this cleanup. This patch provably has no effect at runtime: I have verified that .text of vmlinux is identical after this change. Signed-off-by:Sam Edwards <CFSworks@gmail.com> Signed-off-by:
Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
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