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| -rw-r--r-- | arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/opal-lpc.c | 59 |
1 files changed, 59 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/opal-lpc.c b/arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/opal-lpc.c index ad4b31df779a..e4169d68cb32 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/opal-lpc.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/opal-lpc.c @@ -216,14 +216,54 @@ static ssize_t lpc_debug_read(struct file *filp, char __user *ubuf, &data, len); if (rc) return -ENXIO; + + /* + * Now there is some trickery with the data returned by OPAL + * as it's the desired data right justified in a 32-bit BE + * word. + * + * This is a very bad interface and I'm to blame for it :-( + * + * So we can't just apply a 32-bit swap to what comes from OPAL, + * because user space expects the *bytes* to be in their proper + * respective positions (ie, LPC position). + * + * So what we really want to do here is to shift data right + * appropriately on a LE kernel. + * + * IE. If the LPC transaction has bytes B0, B1, B2 and B3 in that + * order, we have in memory written to by OPAL at the "data" + * pointer: + * + * Bytes: OPAL "data" LE "data" + * 32-bit: B0 B1 B2 B3 B0B1B2B3 B3B2B1B0 + * 16-bit: B0 B1 0000B0B1 B1B00000 + * 8-bit: B0 000000B0 B0000000 + * + * So a BE kernel will have the leftmost of the above in the MSB + * and rightmost in the LSB and can just then "cast" the u32 "data" + * down to the appropriate quantity and write it. + * + * However, an LE kernel can't. It doesn't need to swap because a + * load from data followed by a store to user are going to preserve + * the byte ordering which is the wire byte order which is what the + * user wants, but in order to "crop" to the right size, we need to + * shift right first. + */ switch(len) { case 4: rc = __put_user((u32)data, (u32 __user *)ubuf); break; case 2: +#ifdef __LITTLE_ENDIAN__ + data >>= 16; +#endif rc = __put_user((u16)data, (u16 __user *)ubuf); break; default: +#ifdef __LITTLE_ENDIAN__ + data >>= 24; +#endif rc = __put_user((u8)data, (u8 __user *)ubuf); break; } @@ -263,12 +303,31 @@ static ssize_t lpc_debug_write(struct file *filp, const char __user *ubuf, else if (todo > 1 && (pos & 1) == 0) len = 2; } + + /* + * Similarly to the read case, we have some trickery here but + * it's different to handle. We need to pass the value to OPAL in + * a register whose layout depends on the access size. We want + * to reproduce the memory layout of the user, however we aren't + * doing a load from user and a store to another memory location + * which would achieve that. Here we pass the value to OPAL via + * a register which is expected to contain the "BE" interpretation + * of the byte sequence. IE: for a 32-bit access, byte 0 should be + * in the MSB. So here we *do* need to byteswap on LE. + * + * User bytes: LE "data" OPAL "data" + * 32-bit: B0 B1 B2 B3 B3B2B1B0 B0B1B2B3 + * 16-bit: B0 B1 0000B1B0 0000B0B1 + * 8-bit: B0 000000B0 000000B0 + */ switch(len) { case 4: rc = __get_user(data, (u32 __user *)ubuf); + data = cpu_to_be32(data); break; case 2: rc = __get_user(data, (u16 __user *)ubuf); + data = cpu_to_be16(data); break; default: rc = __get_user(data, (u8 __user *)ubuf); |