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Message-ID: <201206181718.q5IHIKne030367@farm-0010.internal.tilera.com>
Date:	Mon, 18 Jun 2012 13:11:21 -0400
From:	Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@...era.com>
To:	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH] arch/tile: big-endian: properly bswap instruction bundles when backtracing

Instruction bundles are always little-endian, even when running in
big-endian mode.  I missed this internal bug fix when cherry-picking
the big-endian code to return to the community.

Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@...era.com>
---
 arch/tile/kernel/backtrace.c |    9 +++++++--
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/tile/kernel/backtrace.c b/arch/tile/kernel/backtrace.c
index 9092ce8..f8b74ca 100644
--- a/arch/tile/kernel/backtrace.c
+++ b/arch/tile/kernel/backtrace.c
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@
 
 #include <linux/kernel.h>
 #include <linux/string.h>
+#include <asm/byteorder.h>
 #include <asm/backtrace.h>
 #include <asm/tile-desc.h>
 #include <arch/abi.h>
@@ -336,8 +337,12 @@ static void find_caller_pc_and_caller_sp(CallerLocation *location,
 				bytes_to_prefetch / sizeof(tile_bundle_bits);
 		}
 
-		/* Decode the next bundle. */
-		bundle.bits = prefetched_bundles[next_bundle++];
+		/*
+		 * Decode the next bundle.
+		 * TILE always stores instruction bundles in little-endian
+		 * mode, even when the chip is running in big-endian mode.
+		 */
+		bundle.bits = le64_to_cpu(prefetched_bundles[next_bundle++]);
 		bundle.num_insns =
 			parse_insn_tile(bundle.bits, pc, bundle.insns);
 		num_info_ops = bt_get_info_ops(&bundle, info_operands);
-- 
1.7.10.3

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