[PATCH 3.10 12/86] ARM: 8027/1: fix do_div() bug in big-endian systems

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Sun May 04 2014 - 12:13:42 EST


3.10-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Xiangyu Lu <luxiangyu@xxxxxxxxxx>

commit 80bb3ef109ff40a7593d9481c17de9bbc4d7c0e2 upstream.

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".

Reviewed-by: Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@xxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Alex Wu <wuquanming@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Xiangyu Lu <luxiangyu@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

---
arch/arm/include/asm/div64.h | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- 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) \


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