From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Alastair D'Silva <alastair@au1.ibm.com>
Cc: alastair@d-silva.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
stable@vger.kernel.org, Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org,
Allison Randal <allison@lohutok.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc: Allow flush_(inval_)dcache_range to work across ranges >4GB
Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2019 09:19:24 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190815071924.GA26670@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190815045543.16325-1-alastair@au1.ibm.com>
On Thu, Aug 15, 2019 at 02:55:42PM +1000, Alastair D'Silva wrote:
> From: Alastair D'Silva <alastair@d-silva.org>
>
> Heads Up: This patch cannot be submitted to Linus's tree, as the affected
> assembler functions have already been converted to C.
>
> When calling flush_(inval_)dcache_range with a size >4GB, we were masking
> off the upper 32 bits, so we would incorrectly flush a range smaller
> than intended.
>
> This patch replaces the 32 bit shifts with 64 bit ones, so that
> the full size is accounted for.
>
> Signed-off-by: Alastair D'Silva <alastair@d-silva.org>
> ---
> arch/powerpc/kernel/misc_64.S | 4 ++--
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
<formletter>
This is not the correct way to submit patches for inclusion in the
stable kernel tree. Please read:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/stable-kernel-rules.html
for how to do this properly.
</formletter>
WARNING: multiple messages have this Message-ID (diff)
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Alastair D'Silva <alastair@au1.ibm.com>
Cc: alastair@d-silva.org, mpe@ellerman.id.au, stable@vger.kernel.org,
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
Allison Randal <allison@lohutok.net>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc: Allow flush_(inval_)dcache_range to work across ranges >4GB
Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2019 09:19:24 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190815071924.GA26670@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190815045543.16325-1-alastair@au1.ibm.com>
On Thu, Aug 15, 2019 at 02:55:42PM +1000, Alastair D'Silva wrote:
> From: Alastair D'Silva <alastair@d-silva.org>
>
> Heads Up: This patch cannot be submitted to Linus's tree, as the affected
> assembler functions have already been converted to C.
>
> When calling flush_(inval_)dcache_range with a size >4GB, we were masking
> off the upper 32 bits, so we would incorrectly flush a range smaller
> than intended.
>
> This patch replaces the 32 bit shifts with 64 bit ones, so that
> the full size is accounted for.
>
> Signed-off-by: Alastair D'Silva <alastair@d-silva.org>
> ---
> arch/powerpc/kernel/misc_64.S | 4 ++--
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
<formletter>
This is not the correct way to submit patches for inclusion in the
stable kernel tree. Please read:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/stable-kernel-rules.html
for how to do this properly.
</formletter>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-08-15 7:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-08-15 4:55 [PATCH] powerpc: Allow flush_(inval_)dcache_range to work across ranges >4GB Alastair D'Silva
2019-08-15 4:55 ` Alastair D'Silva
2019-08-15 7:19 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
2019-08-15 7:19 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-08-16 1:42 ` Michael Ellerman
2019-08-16 1:42 ` Michael Ellerman
2019-08-16 7:14 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-08-16 7:14 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-08-20 16:30 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-08-20 16:30 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
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