[3.16.y-ckt stable] Patch "sparc64: Fix constraints on swab helpers." has been added to staging queue

Luis Henriques luis.henriques at canonical.com
Mon Dec 1 10:19:14 UTC 2014


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

    sparc64: Fix constraints on swab helpers.

to the linux-3.16.y-queue branch of the 3.16.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.16.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.16.7-ckt3.

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

For more information about the 3.16.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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>From 6153a856d7b4a208a678da5e2be293e8d44f1196 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "David S. Miller" <davem at davemloft.net>
Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2014 13:19:32 -0800
Subject: sparc64: Fix constraints on swab helpers.

commit 5a2b59d3993e8ca4f7788a48a23e5cb303f26954 upstream.

We are reading the memory location, so we have to have a memory
constraint in there purely for the sake of showing the data flow
to the compiler.

Reported-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen at oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem at davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 arch/sparc/include/uapi/asm/swab.h | 12 ++++++------
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/sparc/include/uapi/asm/swab.h b/arch/sparc/include/uapi/asm/swab.h
index a34ad079487e..4c7c12d69bea 100644
--- a/arch/sparc/include/uapi/asm/swab.h
+++ b/arch/sparc/include/uapi/asm/swab.h
@@ -9,9 +9,9 @@ static inline __u16 __arch_swab16p(const __u16 *addr)
 {
 	__u16 ret;

-	__asm__ __volatile__ ("lduha [%1] %2, %0"
+	__asm__ __volatile__ ("lduha [%2] %3, %0"
 			      : "=r" (ret)
-			      : "r" (addr), "i" (ASI_PL));
+			      : "m" (*addr), "r" (addr), "i" (ASI_PL));
 	return ret;
 }
 #define __arch_swab16p __arch_swab16p
@@ -20,9 +20,9 @@ static inline __u32 __arch_swab32p(const __u32 *addr)
 {
 	__u32 ret;

-	__asm__ __volatile__ ("lduwa [%1] %2, %0"
+	__asm__ __volatile__ ("lduwa [%2] %3, %0"
 			      : "=r" (ret)
-			      : "r" (addr), "i" (ASI_PL));
+			      : "m" (*addr), "r" (addr), "i" (ASI_PL));
 	return ret;
 }
 #define __arch_swab32p __arch_swab32p
@@ -31,9 +31,9 @@ static inline __u64 __arch_swab64p(const __u64 *addr)
 {
 	__u64 ret;

-	__asm__ __volatile__ ("ldxa [%1] %2, %0"
+	__asm__ __volatile__ ("ldxa [%2] %3, %0"
 			      : "=r" (ret)
-			      : "r" (addr), "i" (ASI_PL));
+			      : "m" (*addr), "r" (addr), "i" (ASI_PL));
 	return ret;
 }
 #define __arch_swab64p __arch_swab64p
--
2.1.0





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