[3.11.y.z extended stable] Patch "ARM: 8027/1: fix do_div() bug in big-endian systems" has been added to staging queue

Luis Henriques luis.henriques at canonical.com
Wed Apr 30 12:55:30 UTC 2014


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

    ARM: 8027/1: fix do_div() bug in big-endian systems

to the linux-3.11.y-queue branch of the 3.11.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-3.11.y-queue

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

For more information about the 3.11.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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>From d52753824603fd741a383bd36dca5b66a4708683 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Xiangyu Lu <luxiangyu at huawei.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2014 09:38:17 +0100
Subject: ARM: 8027/1: fix do_div() bug in big-endian systems

commit 80bb3ef109ff40a7593d9481c17de9bbc4d7c0e2 upstream.

In big-endian systems, "%1" get the most significant part of the value, cause the instruction to get the wrong result.

When viewing ftrace record in big-endian ARM systems, we found that
the timestamp errors:

swapper-0   [001] 1325.970000:   0:120:R ==> [001]    16:120:R events/1
events/1-16 [001] 1325.970000:   16:120:S ==> [001]    0:120:R swapper
swapper-0   [000] 1325.1000000:  0:120:R   + [000]    15:120:R events/0
swapper-0   [000] 1325.1000000:  0:120:R ==> [000]    15:120:R events/0
swapper-0   [000] 1326.030000:   0:120:R   + [000]  1150:120:R sshd
swapper-0   [000] 1326.030000:   0:120:R ==> [000]  1150:120:R sshd

When viewed ftrace records, it will call the do_div(n, base) function, which achieved arch/arm/include/asm/div64.h in. When n = 10000000, base = 1000000, in do_div(n, base) will execute "umull %Q0, %R0, %1, %Q2".

Reviewed-by: Dave Martin <Dave.Martin at arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico at linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Alex Wu <wuquanming at huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Xiangyu Lu <luxiangyu at huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel at arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 arch/arm/include/asm/div64.h | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/div64.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/div64.h
index 191ada6..662c7bd 100644
--- a/arch/arm/include/asm/div64.h
+++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/div64.h
@@ -156,7 +156,7 @@
 		/* Select the best insn combination to perform the   */	\
 		/* actual __m * __n / (__p << 64) operation.         */	\
 		if (!__c) {						\
-			asm (	"umull	%Q0, %R0, %1, %Q2\n\t"		\
+			asm (	"umull	%Q0, %R0, %Q1, %Q2\n\t"		\
 				"mov	%Q0, #0"			\
 				: "=&r" (__res)				\
 				: "r" (__m), "r" (__n)			\
--
1.9.1





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