[ 3.8.y.z extended stable ] Patch "sparc64 address-congruence property" has been added to staging queue

[Kamal Mostafa]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    sparc64 address-congruence property

to the linux-3.8.y-queue branch of the 3.8.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.8.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.8.13.6.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.8.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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>From cd8a18a166e3d18012160c924db6ab055c96f545 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: bob picco <bpicco at meloft.net>
Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2013 14:54:51 -0400
Subject: sparc64 address-congruence property

commit 771a37ff4d80b80db3b0df3e7696f14b298c67b7 upstream.

The Machine Description (MD) property "address-congruence-offset" is
optional. According to the MD specification the value is assumed 0UL when
not present. This caused early boot failure on T5.

Signed-off-by: Bob Picco <bob.picco at oracle.com>
CC: sparclinux at vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem at davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 arch/sparc/mm/init_64.c | 9 ++++++++-
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/sparc/mm/init_64.c b/arch/sparc/mm/init_64.c
index 82bbf04..c57da7f 100644
--- a/arch/sparc/mm/init_64.c
+++ b/arch/sparc/mm/init_64.c
@@ -1099,7 +1099,14 @@ static int __init grab_mblocks(struct mdesc_handle *md)
 		m->size = *val;
 		val = mdesc_get_property(md, node,
 					 "address-congruence-offset", NULL);
-		m->offset = *val;
+
+		/* The address-congruence-offset property is optional.
+		 * Explicity zero it be identifty this.
+		 */
+		if (val)
+			m->offset = *val;
+		else
+			m->offset = 0UL;

 		numadbg("MBLOCK[%d]: base[%llx] size[%llx] offset[%llx]\n",
 			count - 1, m->base, m->size, m->offset);
--
1.8.1.2