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

Shanker Donthineni shankerd at codeaurora.org
Thu Feb 23 13:05:42 PST 2017



On 02/23/2017 02:46 PM, Timur Tabi wrote:
> 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
>
>
Why do you want keep 'pre_ttbr0_update_workaround' in subject, nothing 
wrong with macro definition itself. Problem with the caller, not passing 
the right arguments.

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Shanker Donthineni
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