[PATCH 5/6] powerpc: Fix lwsync patching code on 64bit
Anton Blanchard
anton at samba.org
Wed Feb 10 22:07:19 EST 2010
do_lwsync_fixups doesn't work on 64bit, we end up writing lwsyncs to the
wrong addresses:
0:mon> di c0000001000bfacc
c0000001000bfacc 7c2004ac lwsync
Since the lwsync section has negative offsets we need to use a signed int
pointer so we sign extend the value.
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton at samba.org>
---
Index: powerpc.git/arch/powerpc/lib/feature-fixups.c
===================================================================
--- powerpc.git.orig/arch/powerpc/lib/feature-fixups.c 2010-02-10 18:34:32.645573355 +1100
+++ powerpc.git/arch/powerpc/lib/feature-fixups.c 2010-02-10 18:35:18.525571521 +1100
@@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ void do_feature_fixups(unsigned long val
void do_lwsync_fixups(unsigned long value, void *fixup_start, void *fixup_end)
{
- unsigned int *start, *end, *dest;
+ int *start, *end, *dest;
if (!(value & CPU_FTR_LWSYNC))
return ;
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