This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled sparc: Let memset return the address argument to the 3.16-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: sparc-let-memset-return-the-address-argument.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.16 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From foo@baz Tue Oct 28 11:19:22 CST 2014 From: Andreas Larsson <andreas@xxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2014 17:08:21 +0200 Subject: sparc: Let memset return the address argument From: Andreas Larsson <andreas@xxxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 74cad25c076a2f5253312c2fe82d1a4daecc1323 ] This makes memset follow the standard (instead of returning 0 on success). This is needed when certain versions of gcc optimizes around memset calls and assume that the address argument is preserved in %o0. Signed-off-by: Andreas Larsson <andreas@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/sparc/lib/memset.S | 18 ++++++++++++++---- 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) --- a/arch/sparc/lib/memset.S +++ b/arch/sparc/lib/memset.S @@ -3,8 +3,9 @@ * Copyright (C) 1996,1997 Jakub Jelinek (jj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) * Copyright (C) 1996 David S. Miller (davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) * - * Returns 0, if ok, and number of bytes not yet set if exception - * occurs and we were called as clear_user. + * Calls to memset returns initial %o0. Calls to bzero returns 0, if ok, and + * number of bytes not yet set if exception occurs and we were called as + * clear_user. */ #include <asm/ptrace.h> @@ -65,6 +66,8 @@ __bzero_begin: .globl __memset_start, __memset_end __memset_start: memset: + mov %o0, %g1 + mov 1, %g4 and %o1, 0xff, %g3 sll %g3, 8, %g2 or %g3, %g2, %g3 @@ -89,6 +92,7 @@ memset: sub %o0, %o2, %o0 __bzero: + clr %g4 mov %g0, %g3 1: cmp %o1, 7 @@ -151,8 +155,8 @@ __bzero: bne,a 8f EX(stb %g3, [%o0], and %o1, 1) 8: - retl - clr %o0 + b 0f + nop 7: be 13b orcc %o1, 0, %g0 @@ -164,6 +168,12 @@ __bzero: bne 8b EX(stb %g3, [%o0 - 1], add %o1, 1) 0: + andcc %g4, 1, %g0 + be 5f + nop + retl + mov %g1, %o0 +5: retl clr %o0 __memset_end: Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from andreas@xxxxxxxxxxx are queue-3.16/sparc-let-memset-return-the-address-argument.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html