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Date:   Wed, 1 May 2019 12:01:14 +0100
From:   Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
To:     Arun KS <arunks@codeaurora.org>
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Subject: Re: arm64: Fix size of __early_cpu_boot_status
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On Tue, Apr 30, 2019 at 04:05:04PM +0530, Arun KS wrote:
> __early_cpu_boot_status is of type long. Use quad
> assembler directive to allocate proper size.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Arun KS <arunks@codeaurora.org>
> ---
>  arch/arm64/kernel/head.S | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/head.S b/arch/arm64/kernel/head.S
> index eecf792..115f332 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/head.S
> +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/head.S
> @@ -684,7 +684,7 @@ ENTRY(__boot_cpu_mode)
>   * with MMU turned off.
>   */
>  ENTRY(__early_cpu_boot_status)
> -	.long 	0
> +	.quad 	0

This is the last element in .mmuoff.data.write, which is padded to 2K,
so luckily we don't clobber anything else (and don't need a backport).

For consistency with __boot_cpu_mode, we could instead change the c
declaration to int, and fix up the calls to
update_early_cpu_boot_status, to use a w register, but either way:

Acked-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>

Mark.

>  
>  	.popsection
>  
> -- 
> 1.9.1
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