[PATCH 02/10] ARM: fixup_pv_table bug when CPU_ENDIAN_BE8

Ben Dooks ben.dooks at codethink.co.uk
Wed Jun 19 08:36:38 EDT 2013


The fixup_pv_table assumes that the instructions are in the same
endian configuration as the data, but when the CPU is running in
BE8 the instructions stay in little-endian format.

Make sure if CONFIG_CPU_ENDIAN_BE8 is set that we do all the
alterations to the instructions taking in to account the LDR/STR
will be swapping the data endian-ness.

Since the code is only modifying a byte, we avoid dual-swapping
the data, and just change the bits we clear and ORR in.

Note, not tested against an actual bug, it looked wrong.

Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks <ben.dooks at codethink.co.uk>
---
 arch/arm/kernel/head.S |    6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/head.S b/arch/arm/kernel/head.S
index 8bac553..56ddd47 100644
--- a/arch/arm/kernel/head.S
+++ b/arch/arm/kernel/head.S
@@ -594,8 +594,14 @@ __fixup_a_pv_table:
 #else
 	b	2f
 1:	ldr	ip, [r7, r3]
+#ifdef CONFIG_CPU_ENDIAN_BE8
+	@ in BE8, we load data in BE, but instructions still in LE
+	bic	ip, ip, #0xff000000
+	orr	ip, ip, r6, lsl#24
+#else
 	bic	ip, ip, #0x000000ff
 	orr	ip, ip, r6	@ mask in offset bits 31-24
+#endif
 	str	ip, [r7, r3]
 2:	cmp	r4, r5
 	ldrcc	r7, [r4], #4	@ use branch for delay slot
-- 
1.7.10.4




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