lsl / lsr possible confusion in v7_flush_dcache_all

[Vincent Siles]

Oh, right. I missed that !

Thank you for the help.
Best,
Vincent

On 08-09-16 10:38:01, Will Deacon wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 08, 2016 at 11:15:20AM +0200, Vincent Siles wrote:
> > While reading the v7_flush_dcache_all (arch/arm/mm/cache-v7.S), I
> > stumbled upon this line:
> > 
> > # r10 is the current cache level
> > 127: add    r2, r10, r10, lsr #1	    @ work out 3x current cache level
> > 
> > If we want r2 to be 3 * r10, we should compute r10 + (r10 << 1), which
> > is lsl, not lsr.
> > 
> > I check for a recent kernel, the issue seems to still be here:
> > repo:       git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git
> > revision:   d71f058617564750261b673ea9b3352382b9cde4
> 
> This code is take pretty much verbatim from the ARM ARM and, despite
> being fairly obfuscated, does what it says on the tin. r10 is incremented
> by 2 each time round the loop, so this is basically doing 2i + (2i / 2).
> 
> Will
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