powerpc: Fix lwsync patching code on 64bit
authorAnton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Wed, 10 Feb 2010 01:07:19 +0000 (01:07 +0000)
committerBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Wed, 17 Feb 2010 03:03:15 +0000 (14:03 +1100)
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@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
arch/powerpc/lib/feature-fixups.c

index 7e8865bcd683a5291861f3d31e07d75d9e98277d..4dee652dfcad019f32ddd3348d7f800b04c62c93 100644 (file)
@@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ void do_feature_fixups(unsigned long value, void *fixup_start, void *fixup_end)
 
 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 ;