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Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-ppc] Help needed testing on ppc
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Tom Musta |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-ppc] Help needed testing on ppc |
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Wed, 18 Jun 2014 07:40:02 -0500 |
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On 6/17/2014 10:17 AM, BALATON Zoltan wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Jun 2014, Tom Musta wrote:
>> I am looking at the test case source code and do not see how you are setting
>> the reserved bit. Maybe I am missing some cleverness in how the test is
>> built?
>
> Probably I should have written it more straight-forward but I wanted it to be
> possible to change it for other tests easily so it's a bit tricky. Basically
> I get the code location by a bl then fetching the link register:
>
>> asm volatile("mfcr %0 \n\t"
>> "bl 1f \n\t"
>> "mfcr %1 \n\t"
>> "mflr 10 \n\t"
>
> and then set the bit with the next three lines after testing the normal case:
>
>> "lwz %0, 36(10) \n\t"
>> "ori %0, %0, 1 \n\t"
>> "stw %0, 36(10) \n\t"
>
> Then test again with the bit set:
>
>> "mfcr %0 \n\t"
>> "bl 1f \n\t"
>> "mfcr %2 \n\t"
>
> and exit:
>
>> "b 2f \n\t"
>> "1: stwx %0, %4, %6 \n\t" <<<<<<<<<<<<< just a
>> normal stwx, right?
>> "blr \n\t"
>> "2: \n\t"
>> : "=&r"(cr), "=&r"(cr1), "=&r"(cr2), "=m"(val)
>> : "r"(&val), "m"(val), "r"(8)
>> : "r8", "r9", "r10", "cc", "memory");
>>
>> prom_printf("old cr (mem):\t%#x\n", val);
>> prom_printf("old cr (reg):\t%#x\n", cr);
>> prom_printf("new cr1 (reg):\t%#x\n", cr1);
>> prom_printf("new cr2 (reg):\t%#x\n", cr2);
>> }
>>
>>
>> But the objdump of your test binary does not show that it is set either:
>
> It should show in a debugger the second time the stwx is called (it did for
> me).
>
> Regards,
> BALATON Zoltan
There should be an icbi after the ori/stw sequence to ensure that the modified
code gets into the instruction cache.
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Help needed testing on ppc, BALATON Zoltan, 2014/06/11
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Help needed testing on ppc, BALATON Zoltan, 2014/06/16
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Help needed testing on ppc, Alexander Graf, 2014/06/17
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-ppc] Help needed testing on ppc, BALATON Zoltan, 2014/06/17
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-ppc] Help needed testing on ppc, Alexander Graf, 2014/06/17
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-ppc] Help needed testing on ppc, BALATON Zoltan, 2014/06/17
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-ppc] Help needed testing on ppc, Tom Musta, 2014/06/17
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-ppc] Help needed testing on ppc, BALATON Zoltan, 2014/06/17
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-ppc] Help needed testing on ppc,
Tom Musta <=
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-ppc] Help needed testing on ppc, BALATON Zoltan, 2014/06/19
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-ppc] Help needed testing on ppc, Alexander Graf, 2014/06/23