Re: [PATCH v10 1/3] ARM: uncompress: Add be32tocpu macro

[Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>]

Hi Ard,

On Thu, Dec 3, 2020 at 1:50 PM Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 3 Dec 2020 at 13:19, Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be> wrote:
> > DTB stores all values as 32-bit big-endian integers.
> > Add a macro to convert such values to native CPU endianness, to reduce
> > duplication.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>
> > ---
> > v10:
> >   - New.
> > ---
> >  arch/arm/boot/compressed/head.S | 26 ++++++++++++--------------
> >  1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/arch/arm/boot/compressed/head.S b/arch/arm/boot/compressed/head.S
> > index 835ce64f1674c9a2..aabdc544c03aafdc 100644
> > --- a/arch/arm/boot/compressed/head.S
> > +++ b/arch/arm/boot/compressed/head.S
> > @@ -165,6 +165,16 @@
> >                 orr     \res, \res, \tmp1, lsl #24
> >                 .endm
> >
> > +               .macro  be32tocpu, val, tmp
> > +#ifndef __ARMEB__
> > +               /* convert to little endian */
> > +               eor     \tmp, \val, \val, ror #16
> > +               bic     \tmp, \tmp, #0x00ff0000
> > +               mov     \val, \val, ror #8
> > +               eor     \val, \val, \tmp, lsr #8
> > +#endif
> > +               .endm
> > +
>
> Thanks for cleaning this up.
>
> This patch is fine as is.
>
> Reviewed-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>

Thanks, submitted to rmk's patch tracker.

> However, I would like to note that, since we are touching this code,
> we might do it properly. (Given the v10, feel free to ignore or defer
> to a later time)

[...]

Thanks for the suggestion, adding to my list.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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