[boot-wrapper PATCH] sme: Fix sign-extension bug in SMCR_EL3 write
Mark Rutland
mark.rutland at arm.com
Tue Oct 4 08:01:23 PDT 2022
On Tue, Oct 04, 2022 at 03:51:52PM +0100, Andre Przywara wrote:
> To enable the full AArch64 ISA support in streaming SVE mode, we need to
> set bit 31 in the SMCR_EL3 system register. However ORing (1 << 31) into
> an unsigned long variable will lead to all upper 32 bits becoming 1,
> which is not what we want. We are just saved by those bits being RES0,
> at least for now.
>
> Explicitly use an unsigned base for the shift, to avoid the sign
> extension.
>
> Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara at arm.com>
> ---
> arch/aarch64/include/asm/cpu.h | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/aarch64/include/asm/cpu.h b/arch/aarch64/include/asm/cpu.h
> index d063948..0c400cc 100644
> --- a/arch/aarch64/include/asm/cpu.h
> +++ b/arch/aarch64/include/asm/cpu.h
> @@ -117,7 +117,7 @@
> #define ZCR_EL3_LEN_MAX 0xf
>
> #define SMCR_EL3 s3_6_c1_c2_6
> -#define SMCR_EL3_FA64 (1 << 31)
> +#define SMCR_EL3_FA64 (1U << 31)
This looks good, but I'd prefer if we used BIT(31) here; that'll do the right
thing internally.
Are you happy if I fix that up when applying?
Thanks,
Mark.
> #define SMCR_EL3_LEN_MAX 0xf
>
> #define ID_AA64ISAR2_EL1 s3_0_c0_c6_2
> --
> 2.25.1
>
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