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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Fix a bug in mtsr/mtsrin emulation on ppc64
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Alexander Graf |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Fix a bug in mtsr/mtsrin emulation on ppc64 |
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Sat, 21 May 2011 03:58:21 +0200 |
Am 21.05.2011 um 00:37 schrieb Andreas Färber <address@hidden>:
> Am 20.05.2011 um 09:40 schrieb Alexander Graf:
>
>> On 20.05.2011, at 05:34, David Gibson wrote:
>>
>>> Early ppc64 CPUs include a hack to partially simulate the ppc32 segment
>>> registers, by translating writes to them into writes to the SLB. This is
>>> not used by any current Linux kernel, but it is used by the openbios used
>>> in the qemu mac99 model.
>>>
>>> Commit 81762d6dd0d430d87024f2c83e9c4dcc4329fb7d, cleaning up the SLB
>>> handling introduced a bug in this code, breaking the openbios currently in
>>> qemu. Specifically, there was an off by one error bitshuffling the
>>> register format used by mtsr into the format needed for the SLB load,
>>> causing the flag bits to end up in the wrong place. This caused the
>>> storage keys to be wrong under openbios, meaning that the translation code
>>> incorrectly thought a legitimate access was a permission violation.
>>>
>>> This patch fixes the bug, at the same time it fixes some build bug in the
>>> MMU debugging code (only exposed when DEBUG_MMU is enabled).
>>
>> Thanks, applied to ppc-next :)
>
> Nack, this does not fix ppc64 for me! How did you test it, Alex???
I booted a ppc64 kernel on a ppc64 Linux system with tcg and it booted fine for
me. Maybe you're hitting yet another issue?
Alex
>
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Fix a bug in mtsr/mtsrin emulation on ppc64, David Gibson, 2011/05/19
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Fix a bug in mtsr/mtsrin emulation on ppc64, Andreas Färber, 2011/05/21
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Fix a bug in mtsr/mtsrin emulation on ppc64, Alexander Graf, 2011/05/21
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Fix a bug in mtsr/mtsrin emulation on ppc64, David Gibson, 2011/05/21
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Fix a bug in mtsr/mtsrin emulation on ppc64, Alexander Graf, 2011/05/21
Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Fix a bug in mtsr/mtsrin emulation on ppc64, Andreas Färber, 2011/05/21