This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
powerpc/powernv: Properly fix LPC debugfs endianness
to the 3.17-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
powerpc-powernv-properly-fix-lpc-debugfs-endianness.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.17 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.
>From 325e4114043469e5f9923d902b4d30bcc2be8163 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2014 16:19:13 +1100
Subject: powerpc/powernv: Properly fix LPC debugfs endianness
From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[email protected]>
commit 325e4114043469e5f9923d902b4d30bcc2be8163 upstream.
Endian is hard, especially when I designed a stupid FW interface, and
I should know better... oh well, this is attempt #2 at fixing this
properly. This time it seems to work with all access sizes and I
can run my flashing tool (which exercises all sort of access sizes
and types to access the SPI controller in the BMC) just fine.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
---
arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/opal-lpc.c | 59 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 59 insertions(+)
--- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/opal-lpc.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/opal-lpc.c
@@ -216,14 +216,54 @@ static ssize_t lpc_debug_read(struct fil
&data, len);
if (rc)
return -ENXIO;
+
+ /*
+ * Now there is some trickery with the data returned by OPAL
+ * as it's the desired data right justified in a 32-bit BE
+ * word.
+ *
+ * This is a very bad interface and I'm to blame for it :-(
+ *
+ * So we can't just apply a 32-bit swap to what comes from OPAL,
+ * because user space expects the *bytes* to be in their proper
+ * respective positions (ie, LPC position).
+ *
+ * So what we really want to do here is to shift data right
+ * appropriately on a LE kernel.
+ *
+ * IE. If the LPC transaction has bytes B0, B1, B2 and B3 in
that
+ * order, we have in memory written to by OPAL at the "data"
+ * pointer:
+ *
+ * Bytes: OPAL "data" LE "data"
+ * 32-bit: B0 B1 B2 B3 B0B1B2B3 B3B2B1B0
+ * 16-bit: B0 B1 0000B0B1 B1B00000
+ * 8-bit: B0 000000B0 B0000000
+ *
+ * So a BE kernel will have the leftmost of the above in the MSB
+ * and rightmost in the LSB and can just then "cast" the u32
"data"
+ * down to the appropriate quantity and write it.
+ *
+ * However, an LE kernel can't. It doesn't need to swap because
a
+ * load from data followed by a store to user are going to
preserve
+ * the byte ordering which is the wire byte order which is what
the
+ * user wants, but in order to "crop" to the right size, we
need to
+ * shift right first.
+ */
switch(len) {
case 4:
rc = __put_user((u32)data, (u32 __user *)ubuf);
break;
case 2:
+#ifdef __LITTLE_ENDIAN__
+ data >>= 16;
+#endif
rc = __put_user((u16)data, (u16 __user *)ubuf);
break;
default:
+#ifdef __LITTLE_ENDIAN__
+ data >>= 24;
+#endif
rc = __put_user((u8)data, (u8 __user *)ubuf);
break;
}
@@ -263,12 +303,31 @@ static ssize_t lpc_debug_write(struct fi
else if (todo > 1 && (pos & 1) == 0)
len = 2;
}
+
+ /*
+ * Similarly to the read case, we have some trickery here but
+ * it's different to handle. We need to pass the value to OPAL
in
+ * a register whose layout depends on the access size. We want
+ * to reproduce the memory layout of the user, however we aren't
+ * doing a load from user and a store to another memory location
+ * which would achieve that. Here we pass the value to OPAL via
+ * a register which is expected to contain the "BE"
interpretation
+ * of the byte sequence. IE: for a 32-bit access, byte 0 should
be
+ * in the MSB. So here we *do* need to byteswap on LE.
+ *
+ * User bytes: LE "data" OPAL "data"
+ * 32-bit: B0 B1 B2 B3 B3B2B1B0 B0B1B2B3
+ * 16-bit: B0 B1 0000B1B0 0000B0B1
+ * 8-bit: B0 000000B0 000000B0
+ */
switch(len) {
case 4:
rc = __get_user(data, (u32 __user *)ubuf);
+ data = cpu_to_be32(data);
break;
case 2:
rc = __get_user(data, (u16 __user *)ubuf);
+ data = cpu_to_be16(data);
break;
default:
rc = __get_user(data, (u8 __user *)ubuf);
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected]
are
queue-3.17/powerpc-powernv-properly-fix-lpc-debugfs-endianness.patch
queue-3.17/drm-ast-fix-hw-cursor-image.patch
queue-3.17/x86-intel-mid-create-irqs-for-apb-timers-and-rtc-timers.patch
queue-3.17/acpi-irq-x86-return-irq-instead-of-gsi-in-mp_register_gsi.patch
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