[PATCH v2] arm64: Fix the kernel panic() on QDF2400 platform

Timur Tabi timur at codeaurora.org
Thu Feb 23 12:46:49 PST 2017


On 02/23/2017 02:02 PM, Shanker Donthineni wrote:
> The commit 38fd94b0275c 'arm64: Work around Falkor erratum 1003' has
> been added to fix the hardware bug but causing a system crash. The

"causes"

> value of the register x1 which contains 'struct mm_struct *' should
> be preserved inside macro pre_ttbr0_update_workaround.

The subject line seems a bit vague and alarmist to me.  In my opinion, this 
is more descriptive:

arm64: qcom: pre_ttbr0_update_workaround should not clobber register x1



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