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    arm64: big-endian: write CPU holding pen address as LE · 710be9ac
    Matthew Leach authored
    Currently when CPUs are brought online via a spin-table, the address
    they should jump to is written to the cpu-release-addr in the kernel's
    native endianness. As the kernel may switch endianness, secondaries
    might read the value byte-reversed from what was intended, and they
    would jump to the wrong address.
    
    As the only current arm64 spin-table implementations are
    little-endian, stricten up the arm64 spin-table definition such that
    the value written to cpu-release-addr is _always_ little-endian
    regardless of the endianness of any CPU. If a spinning CPU is
    operating big-endian, it must byte-reverse the value before jumping to
    handle this.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarMatthew Leach <matthew.leach@arm.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
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