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From: davidb@codeaurora.org (David Brown)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH 4/4] ARM: zImage: allow supplementing appended DTB with traditional ATAG data
Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2011 16:13:35 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8ya7h8edbhc.fsf@huya.qualcomm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8yaliwueqr4.fsf@huya.qualcomm.com> (David Brown's message of "Tue, 21 Jun 2011 15:58:23 -0700")

On Tue, Jun 21 2011, David Brown wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 20 2011, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
>
>> +void *memmove(void *__dest, __const void *__src, size_t __n)
>> +{
>> +	unsigned char *d = __dest;
>> +	const unsigned char *s = __src;
>> +
>> +	if (__dest == __src)
>> +		return __dest;
>> +
>> +	if (__dest < __src)
>> +		return memcpy(__dest, __src, __n);
>> +
>> +	while (--__n >= 0)
>> +		d[__n] = s[__n];
>> +
>> +	return __dest;
>> +}
>
> Ahh, found it.  size_t is unsigned, so the while loop never terminates.
> Something like:
>
> 	for (; __n; __n--)
> 		d[__n] = s[__n];

Ugh.  How about if I don't replace a broken version with a different
broken version.

	while (__n) {
		__n--;
                d[__n] = s[__n];
	}

Now, I don't need any extra fields in my DTB, and it correctly inserts
the ATAG values.

David

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  reply	other threads:[~2011-06-21 23:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-06-21  5:09 [PATCH 0/4] allow DTB to be appended to the ARM zImage with ATAG conversion Nicolas Pitre
2011-06-21  5:09 ` [PATCH 1/4] ARM: zImage: ensure it is always a multiple of 64 bits in size Nicolas Pitre
2011-06-21  5:09 ` [PATCH 2/4] ARM: zImage: Allow the appending of a device tree binary Nicolas Pitre
2011-06-21  5:09 ` [PATCH 3/4] ARM: zImage: make sure appended DTB doesn't get overwritten by kernel .bss Nicolas Pitre
2011-06-21  5:09 ` [PATCH 4/4] ARM: zImage: allow supplementing appended DTB with traditional ATAG data Nicolas Pitre
2011-06-21  7:00   ` Shawn Guo
2011-06-21 17:32     ` David Brown
2011-06-21 22:58   ` David Brown
2011-06-21 23:13     ` David Brown [this message]
2011-06-21 23:22       ` Warner Losh
2011-06-21 23:35       ` Nicolas Pitre
2011-06-21 21:59 ` [PATCH 0/4] allow DTB to be appended to the ARM zImage with ATAG conversion David Brown

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