[PATCH] ARM: qcom: Fix SCM interface for big-endian kernels

Kumar Gala galak at codeaurora.org
Tue Sep 23 10:45:25 PDT 2014


On Sep 23, 2014, at 12:42 PM, Stephen Boyd <sboyd at codeaurora.org> wrote:

> On 09/23/14 09:47, Kumar Gala wrote:
>> On Sep 22, 2014, at 5:36 PM, Stephen Boyd <sboyd at codeaurora.org> wrote:
>> 
>>> The secure environment only runs in little-endian mode, so any
>>> buffers shared with the secure environment should have their
>>> contents converted to little-endian. We also mark such elements
>>> with __le32 to allow sparse to catch such problems.
>>> 
>>> Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd at codeaurora.org>
>>> ---
>>> drivers/soc/qcom/scm-boot.c |  8 ++++----
>>> drivers/soc/qcom/scm.c      | 34 ++++++++++++++++++----------------
>>> 2 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)
>>> 
>>> diff --git a/drivers/soc/qcom/scm-boot.c b/drivers/soc/qcom/scm-boot.c
>>> index 60ff7b482141..3e4d77b371c6 100644
>>> --- a/drivers/soc/qcom/scm-boot.c
>>> +++ b/drivers/soc/qcom/scm-boot.c
>>> @@ -27,12 +27,12 @@
>>> int scm_set_boot_addr(phys_addr_t addr, int flags)
>>> {
>>> 	struct {
>>> -		unsigned int flags;
>>> -		phys_addr_t  addr;
>>> +		__le32 flags;
>>> +		__le32 addr;
>> Hmm, was phys_addr_t wrong here before?  I ask because don’t we support LPAE on some systems?
> 
> Yes it was wrong. It is exactly 32 bits wide.

So we should probably have a patch to fix the interface scm_set_boot_addr() to take a u32 addr instead of a phys_addr_t

- k

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