[PATCH] powerpc: mtspr/mtmsr should take an unsigned long

Scott Wood scottwood at freescale.com
Tue Jul 26 07:02:11 EST 2011


Add a cast in case the caller passes in a different type, as it would
if mtspr/mtmsr were functions.

Previously, if a 64-bit type was passed in on 32-bit, GCC would bind the
constraint to a pair of registers, and would substitute the first register
in the pair in the asm code.  This corresponds to the upper half of the
64-bit register, which is generally not the desired behavior.

Signed-off-by: Scott Wood <scottwood at freescale.com>
---
If you're wondering why you'd pass a 64-bit value to one of these macros
on 32-bit, it came up when trying to load an SPR from kvm_vcpu_arch_shared.

 arch/powerpc/include/asm/reg.h |    7 +++++--
 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/reg.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/reg.h
index 213d1d7..1b45133 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/reg.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/reg.h
@@ -1007,13 +1007,16 @@
 #define mtmsrd(v)	__mtmsrd((v), 0)
 #define mtmsr(v)	mtmsrd(v)
 #else
-#define mtmsr(v)	asm volatile("mtmsr %0" : : "r" (v) : "memory")
+#define mtmsr(v)	asm volatile("mtmsr %0" : \
+				     : "r" ((unsigned long)(v)) \
+				     : "memory")
 #endif
 
 #define mfspr(rn)	({unsigned long rval; \
 			asm volatile("mfspr %0," __stringify(rn) \
 				: "=r" (rval)); rval;})
-#define mtspr(rn, v)	asm volatile("mtspr " __stringify(rn) ",%0" : : "r" (v)\
+#define mtspr(rn, v)	asm volatile("mtspr " __stringify(rn) ",%0" : \
+				     : "r" ((unsigned long)(v)) \
 				     : "memory")
 
 #ifdef __powerpc64__
-- 
1.7.4.1



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