On Mon, 2015-12-07 at 14:34 +0100, 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 <fbar...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Suggested-by: Michael Neuling <mi...@neuling.org>
> Cc: <sta...@vger.kernel.org> # 4.3+
> ---
> cxl kernel API is supported starting with 4.3 (for cxlflash)
The cxlflash's AFU doesn't use this bit, so the stable@ marker here is
probably not strictly needed.
Mikey
> drivers/misc/cxl/native.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/misc/cxl/native.c b/drivers/misc/cxl/native.c
> index d2e75c8..f409097 100644
> --- a/drivers/misc/cxl/native.c
> +++ b/drivers/misc/cxl/native.c
> @@ -497,6 +497,7 @@ static u64 calculate_sr(struct cxl_context *ctx)
> {
> u64 sr = 0;
>
> + set_endian(sr);
> if (ctx->master)
> sr |= CXL_PSL_SR_An_MP;
> if (mfspr(SPRN_LPCR) & LPCR_TC)
> @@ -506,7 +507,6 @@ static u64 calculate_sr(struct cxl_context *ctx)
> sr |= CXL_PSL_SR_An_HV;
> } else {
> sr |= CXL_PSL_SR_An_PR | CXL_PSL_SR_An_R;
> - set_endian(sr);
> sr &= ~(CXL_PSL_SR_An_HV);
> if (!test_tsk_thread_flag(current, TIF_32BIT))
> sr |= CXL_PSL_SR_An_SF;
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