[PATCH] ARM: fix big endian __pv_phys_pfn_offset size related issue
Nicolas Pitre
nicolas.pitre at linaro.org
Thu Apr 17 16:33:47 PDT 2014
On Thu, 17 Apr 2014, Victor Kamensky wrote:
> Fix e26a9e00afc482b971afcaef1db8c9034d4d6d7c 'ARM: Better
> virt_to_page() handling' replaced __pv_phys_offset with
> __pv_phys_pfn_offset. Also note that size of __pv_phys_offset
> was quad but size of __pv_phys_pfn_offset is word. Instruction
> that used to update __pv_phys_offset which address is in r6
> had to update low word of __pv_phys_offset so it used #LOW_OFFSET
> macro for store offset. Now when size of __pv_phys_pfn_offset is
> word, no difference between little endian and big endian should
> exist - i.e no offset should be used when __pv_phys_pfn_offset
> is stored.
>
> Note that for little endian image proposed change is noop,
> since in little endian case #LOW_OFFSET is defined 0 anyway.
>
> Reported-by: Taras Kondratiuk <taras.kondratiuk at linaro.org>
> Signed-off-by: Victor Kamensky <victor.kamensky at linaro.org>
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico at linaro.org>
> ---
> arch/arm/kernel/head.S | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/head.S b/arch/arm/kernel/head.S
> index f8c0883..591d6e4 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/kernel/head.S
> +++ b/arch/arm/kernel/head.S
> @@ -587,7 +587,7 @@ __fixup_pv_table:
> add r6, r6, r3 @ adjust __pv_phys_pfn_offset address
> add r7, r7, r3 @ adjust __pv_offset address
> mov r0, r8, lsr #12 @ convert to PFN
> - str r0, [r6, #LOW_OFFSET] @ save computed PHYS_OFFSET to __pv_phys_pfn_offset
> + str r0, [r6] @ save computed PHYS_OFFSET to __pv_phys_pfn_offset
> strcc ip, [r7, #HIGH_OFFSET] @ save to __pv_offset high bits
> mov r6, r3, lsr #24 @ constant for add/sub instructions
> teq r3, r6, lsl #24 @ must be 16MiB aligned
> --
> 1.8.1.4
>
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