[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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