[PATCH 2/2] ARM: mm: mm->context.id fix for big-endian

Ben Dooks ben.dooks at codethink.co.uk
Sun Feb 10 09:57:28 EST 2013


Since the new ASID code in [b5466f8728527a05a493cc4abe9e6f034a1bbaab]
was changed to use 64bit operations it has broken the BE operation due
to an issue with the MM code accessing sub-fields of mm->context.id.

When running in BE mode we see the values in mm->context.id are stored
with the highest value first, so the LDR in the arch/arm/mm/proc-macros.S
reads the wrong part of this field. To resolve this, change the LDR in
the mmid macro to load from +4.

Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks <ben.dooks at codethink.co.uk>
---
 arch/arm/mm/context.c     |    3 +++
 arch/arm/mm/proc-macros.S |    5 +++++
 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/arm/mm/context.c b/arch/arm/mm/context.c
index bc4a5e9..7a05111 100644
--- a/arch/arm/mm/context.c
+++ b/arch/arm/mm/context.c
@@ -34,6 +34,9 @@
  * The ASID is used to tag entries in the CPU caches and TLBs.
  * The context ID is used by debuggers and trace logic, and
  * should be unique within all running processes.
+ *
+ * In big endian operation, the two 32 bit words are swapped if accesed by
+ * non 64-bit operations.
  */
 #define ASID_FIRST_VERSION	(1ULL << ASID_BITS)
 #define NUM_USER_ASIDS		(ASID_FIRST_VERSION - 1)
diff --git a/arch/arm/mm/proc-macros.S b/arch/arm/mm/proc-macros.S
index eb6aa73..f9a0aa7 100644
--- a/arch/arm/mm/proc-macros.S
+++ b/arch/arm/mm/proc-macros.S
@@ -38,9 +38,14 @@
 
 /*
  * mmid - get context id from mm pointer (mm->context.id)
+ * note, this field is 64bit, so in big-endian the two words are swapped too.
  */
 	.macro	mmid, rd, rn
+#ifdef __ARMEB__
+	ldr	\rd, [\rn, #MM_CONTEXT_ID + 4 ]
+#else
 	ldr	\rd, [\rn, #MM_CONTEXT_ID]
+#endif
 	.endm
 
 /*
-- 
1.7.10.4




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