Patch "sparc64 address-congruence property" has been added to the 3.0-stable tree

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This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    sparc64 address-congruence property

to the 3.0-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     sparc64-address-congruence-property.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.0 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.


>From 0dc836a588dda1250a451716270d5dd5ff07041c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: bob picco <bpicco@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2013 14:54:51 -0400
Subject: sparc64 address-congruence property

From: bob picco <bpicco@xxxxxxxxxx>

The Machine Description (MD) property "address-congruence-offset" is
optional. According to the MD specification the value is assumed 0UL when
not present. This caused early boot failure on T5.

Signed-off-by: Bob Picco <bob.picco@xxxxxxxxxx>
CC: sparclinux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 arch/sparc/mm/init_64.c |    9 ++++++++-
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/arch/sparc/mm/init_64.c
+++ b/arch/sparc/mm/init_64.c
@@ -1071,7 +1071,14 @@ static int __init grab_mblocks(struct md
 		m->size = *val;
 		val = mdesc_get_property(md, node,
 					 "address-congruence-offset", NULL);
-		m->offset = *val;
+
+		/* The address-congruence-offset property is optional.
+		 * Explicity zero it be identifty this.
+		 */
+		if (val)
+			m->offset = *val;
+		else
+			m->offset = 0UL;
 
 		numadbg("MBLOCK[%d]: base[%llx] size[%llx] offset[%llx]\n",
 			count - 1, m->base, m->size, m->offset);


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from bpicco@xxxxxxxxxx are

queue-3.0/sparc64-address-congruence-property.patch
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