[PATCH Resend] misc lparcfg fixes

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(Resending with patch inline)

This patch fixed several problems with the lparcfg code.  In case
someone gets a sense of deja-vu, part of this was submitted last Sep, I
thought the changes went in, but either got backed out, or just got
lost. 

First, change the local_buffer declaration to be unsigned char *.  We
had a bad-math problem in a 2.4 tree which was built with a
"-fsigned-char" parm.  I dont believe we ever build with that parm
now-a-days, but to be safe, I'd prefer the declaration be explicit.

Second, fix a bad math calculation for splpar_strlen.   

Third, on the rtas_call for get-system-parameter, pass in
RTAS_DATA_BUF_SIZE for the rtas_data_buf size, instead of letting random
data determine the size.   Until recently, we've had a sufficiently
large 'random data' value get passed in, so the function just happens to
have worked OK.   Now it's getting passed a '0', which causes the
rtas_call to return success, but no data shows up in the buffer.
(oops!).   This was found by the LTC test org.  

This is in a branch of code that only gets run on SPLPAR systems.
Tested on power5 Lpar.  

Signed-off-by: Will Schmidt <redacted>
---

diff -Naur 2.6/arch/powerpc/kernel/lparcfg.c 2.6.mar30/arch/powerpc/kernel/lparcfg.c

--- 2.6/arch/powerpc/kernel/lparcfg.c	2006-03-20 02:15:57.000000000 -0800
+++ 2.6.mar30/arch/powerpc/kernel/lparcfg.c	2006-03-30 12:06:34.323023840 -0800

@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@
 #include <asm/prom.h>
 #include <asm/vdso_datapage.h>
 
-#define MODULE_VERS "1.6"
+#define MODULE_VERS "1.7"
 #define MODULE_NAME "lparcfg"
 
 /* #define LPARCFG_DEBUG */

@@ -242,7 +242,7 @@
 {
 	int call_status;
 
-	char *local_buffer = kmalloc(SPLPAR_MAXLENGTH, GFP_KERNEL);
+	unsigned char *local_buffer = kmalloc(SPLPAR_MAXLENGTH, GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!local_buffer) {
 		printk(KERN_ERR "%s %s kmalloc failure at line %d \n",
 		       __FILE__, __FUNCTION__, __LINE__);

@@ -254,7 +254,8 @@
 	call_status = rtas_call(rtas_token("ibm,get-system-parameter"), 3, 1,
 				NULL,
 				SPLPAR_CHARACTERISTICS_TOKEN,
-				__pa(rtas_data_buf));
+				__pa(rtas_data_buf),
+				RTAS_DATA_BUF_SIZE);
 	memcpy(local_buffer, rtas_data_buf, SPLPAR_MAXLENGTH);
 	spin_unlock(&rtas_data_buf_lock);
 

@@ -275,7 +276,7 @@
 #ifdef LPARCFG_DEBUG
 		printk(KERN_INFO "success calling get-system-parameter \n");
 #endif
-		splpar_strlen = local_buffer[0] * 16 + local_buffer[1];
+		splpar_strlen = local_buffer[0] * 256 + local_buffer[1];
 		local_buffer += 2;	/* step over strlen value */
 
 		memset(workbuffer, 0, SPLPAR_MAXLENGTH);