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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	linuxppc-dev <linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org>
Cc: sjitindarsingh@gmail.com, Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
	ben@codiert.org, Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>,
	Anton Blanchard <anton@ozlabs.org>, stable@vger.kernel.org#3.12+
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] powerpc/prom: avoid endian conversions for linux, memory-limit node
Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2017 11:37:38 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1501810658.2664.60.camel@kernel.crashing.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <150175227508.9806.17545018023658850483.stgit@hbathini.in.ibm.com>

On Thu, 2017-08-03 at 14:54 +0530, Hari Bathini wrote:
> As linux,memory-limit node is set and also later used by the kernel,
> avoid endian conversions for this property.
> 
> Fixes: 493adffcb43f ("powerpc: Make prom_init.c endian safe")
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.12+
> Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@ozlabs.org>
> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
> Signed-off-by: Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> ---
>  arch/powerpc/kernel/prom_init.c |    3 +--
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom_init.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom_init.c
> index 613f79f..723df83 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom_init.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom_init.c
> @@ -3180,9 +3180,8 @@ unsigned long __init prom_init(unsigned long r3, unsigned long r4,
>  	 * Fill in some infos for use by the kernel later on
>  	 */
>  	if (prom_memory_limit) {
> -		__be64 val = cpu_to_be64(prom_memory_limit);
>  		prom_setprop(prom.chosen, "/chosen", "linux,memory-limit",
> -			     &val, sizeof(val));
> +			     &prom_memory_limit, sizeof(prom_memory_limit));
>  	}
>  #ifdef CONFIG_PPC64
>  	if (prom_iommu_off)

NACK. The device-tree is big endian by convention.

Ben.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-08-04  1:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-08-03  9:24 [PATCH 1/4] powerpc/prom: avoid endian conversions for linux, memory-limit node Hari Bathini
2017-08-03  9:24 ` [PATCH 2/4] powerpc/prom: fix early parsing of parameters Hari Bathini
2017-08-06  8:36   ` kbuild test robot
2017-08-03  9:25 ` [PATCH 3/4] powerpc/prom: fix early parsing of 'mem=' parameter Hari Bathini
2017-08-03  9:25 ` [PATCH 4/4] powerpc/prom: fix early parsing of 'disable_radix' parameter Hari Bathini
2017-08-04  1:37 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2017-08-04  1:47   ` [PATCH 1/4] powerpc/prom: avoid endian conversions for linux, memory-limit node Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2017-08-04  5:35     ` Hari Bathini
2017-08-04  3:51 ` Michael Ellerman
2017-08-04  5:32   ` Hari Bathini
2017-08-04 10:14     ` Michael Ellerman
2017-08-04 18:38       ` Hari Bathini

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