[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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