[PATCH v2 4/6] ARM: psci: add support for PSCI invocations from the kernel

Will Deacon will.deacon at arm.com
Wed Dec 19 06:27:28 EST 2012


On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 09:59:45PM +0000, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Dec 2012, Will Deacon wrote:
> > On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 08:51:27PM +0000, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> > > On Mon, 17 Dec 2012, Will Deacon wrote:
> > > > +static int psci_cpu_suspend(struct psci_power_state state,
> > > > +			    unsigned long entry_point)
> > > > +{
> > > > +	int err;
> > > > +	u32 fn, power_state;
> > > > +
> > > > +	fn = psci_function_id[PSCI_FN_CPU_SUSPEND];
> > > > +	power_state = psci_power_state_pack(state);
> > > > +	err = invoke_psci_fn(fn, power_state, (u32)entry_point, 0);
> > > 
> > > Why do you need the u32 cast here?
> > 
> > That's a hangover from when entry_point was a void *. I'll fix that, thanks.
> 
> Hopefully you didn't pass virtual pointers to the PSCI call, did you?  :-)

...and I'd have gotten away with it if it wasn't for those meddling kids!

It was also made worse by Marc's code working first time too (after I blamed
the firmware like any sane kernel hacker would do :)

Will



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