[PATCH 2/2] ARC: gdbserver breakage in Big-Endian configuration #2

From: Vineet Gupta
Date: Thu Aug 08 2013 - 09:55:43 EST


This is related to how how different asm instructions write to a
bitfield member.

In BE config, @orig_r8 is at offset 0 while @event is at offset 2.

"ST 0xNNNN_EEEE, [addr]" correctly writes 0xEEEE to @event, however
a half word write, "STW 0xEEEE, [addr]" does not in Big Endian while
works perfectly file for LE config (since @event is at offset 0).

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Thi issue is already fixed in mainline 3.11 kernel as part of commit:
502a0c775c7f0a "ARC: pt_regs update #5"

However that patch has lot more changes than I would like backporting,
hence this seperate change.
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Reported-by: Noam Camus <noamc@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> # [3.9 and 3.10 only]
Tested-by: Anton Kolesov <akolesov@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/arc/kernel/entry.S | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arc/kernel/entry.S b/arch/arc/kernel/entry.S
index 7b5f3ec..724de08 100644
--- a/arch/arc/kernel/entry.S
+++ b/arch/arc/kernel/entry.S
@@ -498,7 +498,7 @@ tracesys_exit:
trap_with_param:

; stop_pc info by gdb needs this info
- stw orig_r8_IS_BRKPT, [sp, PT_orig_r8]
+ st orig_r8_IS_BRKPT, [sp, PT_orig_r8]

mov r0, r12
lr r1, [efa]
@@ -727,7 +727,7 @@ not_exception:
; things to what they were, before returning from L2 context
;----------------------------------------------------------------

- ldw r9, [sp, PT_orig_r8] ; get orig_r8 to make sure it is
+ ld r9, [sp, PT_orig_r8] ; get orig_r8 to make sure it is
brne r9, orig_r8_IS_IRQ2, 149f ; infact a L2 ISR ret path

ld r9, [sp, PT_status32] ; get statu32_l2 (saved in pt_regs)
--
1.8.1.2

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