[PATCH 1/2] powerpc/cell: Fix crash in iic_setup_cpu() after per_cpu changes

Michael Ellerman mpe at ellerman.id.au
Fri Apr 3 14:11:53 AEDT 2015


The conversion from __get_cpu_var() to this_cpu_ptr() in iic_setup_cpu()
is wrong. It causes an oops at boot.

We need the per-cpu address of struct cpu_iic, not cpu_iic.regs->prio.

Sparse noticed this, because we pass a non-iomem pointer to out_be64(),
but we obviously don't check the sparse results often enough.

Fixes: 69111bac42f5 ("powerpc: Replace __get_cpu_var uses")
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe at ellerman.id.au>
---
 arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/interrupt.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/interrupt.c b/arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/interrupt.c
index 4c11421847be..3af8324c122e 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/interrupt.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/interrupt.c
@@ -163,7 +163,7 @@ static unsigned int iic_get_irq(void)
 
 void iic_setup_cpu(void)
 {
-	out_be64(this_cpu_ptr(&cpu_iic.regs->prio), 0xff);
+	out_be64(&this_cpu_ptr(&cpu_iic)->regs->prio, 0xff);
 }
 
 u8 iic_get_target_id(int cpu)
-- 
2.1.0



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