On Fri, 11 Apr 2014, Lu Xiangyu wrote:

> From: Xiangyu Lu <[email protected]>
> 
> In big-endian systems, "%1" get the most significant part of the value, cause
> the instruction to get the wrong result.
> 
> When viewing ftrace record in big-endian ARM systems, we found that
> the timestamp errors:
> 
> swapper-0     [001]  1325.970000:      0:120:R ==> [001]    16:120:R events/1
> events/1-16   [001]  1325.970000:      16:120:S ==> [001]    0:120:R swapper
> swapper-0     [000]  1325.1000000:     0:120:R   + [000]    15:120:R events/0
> swapper-0     [000]  1325.1000000:     0:120:R ==> [000]    15:120:R events/0
> swapper-0     [000]  1326.030000:      0:120:R   + [000]  1150:120:R sshd
> swapper-0     [000]  1326.030000:      0:120:R ==> [000]  1150:120:R sshd
> 
> When viewed ftrace records, it will call the do_div(n, base) function, which
> achieved arch/arm/include/asm/div64.h in. When n = 10000000, base = 1000000, 
> in
> do_div(n, base) will execute "umull %Q0, %R0, %1, %Q2".
> 
> Cc: <[email protected]> # 2.6.20+
> Signed-off-by: Alex Wu <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Xiangyu Lu <[email protected]>

Argh..  My bad.

Reviewed-by: Nicolas Pitre <[email protected]>

Please send to RMK's patch system.


> ---
>  arch/arm/include/asm/div64.h |    2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/div64.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/div64.h
> index 191ada6..662c7bd 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/include/asm/div64.h
> +++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/div64.h
> @@ -156,7 +156,7 @@
>               /* Select the best insn combination to perform the   */ \
>               /* actual __m * __n / (__p << 64) operation.         */ \
>               if (!__c) {                                             \
> -                     asm (   "umull  %Q0, %R0, %1, %Q2\n\t"          \
> +                     asm (   "umull  %Q0, %R0, %Q1, %Q2\n\t"         \
>                               "mov    %Q0, #0"                        \
>                               : "=&r" (__res)                         \
>                               : "r" (__m), "r" (__n)                  \
> -- 
> 1.7.9.5
> 
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