From: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
To: Frederic Barrat <fbarrat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: mikey@neuling.org, imunsie@au1.ibm.com, stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: cxl: Set endianess of kernel contexts
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2015 20:46:36 +1100 (AEDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151214094636.2CDE114031F@ozlabs.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1449495280-18819-1-git-send-email-fbarrat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
On Mon, 2015-07-12 at 13:34:40 UTC, Frederic Barrat wrote:
> A process element (defined in CAIA) keeps track of the endianess of
> contexts through the Little Endian (LE) bit of the State Register. It
> is currently set for user contexts, but was somehow forgotten for
> kernel contexts, so this patch fixes it.
> It could lead to erratic behavior from an AFU when the context is
> attached through the kernel API.
>
> Signed-off-by: Frederic Barrat <fbarrat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Suggested-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 4.3+
Applied to powerpc fixes, thanks.
https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/e606e035cc7293a3824527d9
cheers
prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-12-14 9:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-12-07 13:34 [PATCH] cxl: Set endianess of kernel contexts Frederic Barrat
2015-12-08 3:11 ` Michael Neuling
2015-12-14 6:45 ` Ian Munsie
2015-12-14 9:46 ` Michael Ellerman [this message]
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