[PATCH 3.1-rc1] ARM: entry: fix wrong parameter used in do_thumb_abort

Janusz Krzysztofik jkrzyszt at tis.icnet.pl
Wed Sep 7 07:10:08 EDT 2011


Any plans to fix this regression before the rc cycle is over, or at 
least explain why it won't be fixed?

Any special requirements as to the process of submitting bug fixes 
against arch/arm common bits?

Thanks,
Janusz

On Wed, 24 Aug 2011 at 13:07:20, Janusz Krzysztofik wrote:
> Commit be020f8618ca, "ARM: entry: abort-macro: specify registers to
> be used for macros", while replacing register numbers with macro
> parameter names, mismatched the parameter used for r1. For me, this
> resulted in user space, built for EABI with -march=armv4t
> -mtune=arm920t -mthumb- interwork -mthumb, broken on my OMAP1510
> based Amstrad Delta (old ABI with -mno-thumb still worked for me
> though).
> 
> Fix this by using correct parameter, fsr, instead of mismatched psr,
> used by callers for another purpose.
> 
> Tested on OMAP1510 Amstrad Delta
> 
> Signed-off-by: Janusz Krzysztofik <jkrzyszt at tis.icnet.pl>
> ---
>  arch/arm/mm/abort-macro.S |    2 +-
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm/mm/abort-macro.S b/arch/arm/mm/abort-macro.S
> index 52162d5..2cbf68e 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/mm/abort-macro.S
> +++ b/arch/arm/mm/abort-macro.S
> @@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
>  	cmp	\tmp, # 0x5600			@ Is it ldrsb?
>  	orreq	\tmp, \tmp, #1 << 11		@ Set L-bit if yes
>  	tst	\tmp, #1 << 11			@ L = 0 -> write
> -	orreq	\psr, \psr, #1 << 11		@ yes.
> +	orreq	\fsr, \fsr, #1 << 11		@ yes.
>  	b	do_DataAbort
>  not_thumb:
>  	.endm



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