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Date:   Thu, 15 Aug 2019 09:19:24 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To:     Alastair D'Silva <alastair@au1.ibm.com>
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        Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
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        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
        linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc: Allow flush_(inval_)dcache_range to work across
 ranges >4GB
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On Thu, Aug 15, 2019 at 02:55:42PM +1000, Alastair D'Silva wrote:
> From: Alastair D'Silva <alastair@d-silva.org>
> 
> Heads Up: This patch cannot be submitted to Linus's tree, as the affected
> assembler functions have already been converted to C.
> 
> When calling flush_(inval_)dcache_range with a size >4GB, we were masking
> off the upper 32 bits, so we would incorrectly flush a range smaller
> than intended.
> 
> This patch replaces the 32 bit shifts with 64 bit ones, so that
> the full size is accounted for.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alastair D'Silva <alastair@d-silva.org>
> ---
>  arch/powerpc/kernel/misc_64.S | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

<formletter>

This is not the correct way to submit patches for inclusion in the
stable kernel tree.  Please read:
    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/stable-kernel-rules.html
for how to do this properly.

</formletter>