Re: [PATCH] target: ppc: Correctly initialize HILE in HID-0 for book3s processors

[Fabiano Rosas]

Narayana Murty N <nnmlinux@linux.ibm.com> writes:

> On PPC64 the HILE(Hypervisor Interrupt Little Endian) bit in HID-0
> register needs to be initialized as per isa 3.0b[1] section
> 2.10. This bit gets copied to the MSR_LE when handling interrupts that
> are handled in HV mode to establish the Endianess mode of the interrupt
> handler.
>
> Qemu's ppc_interrupts_little_endian() depends on HILE to determine Host
> endianness which is then used to determine the endianess of the guest dump.
>

Not quite. We use the interrupt endianness as a proxy to guest
endianness to avoid reading MSR_LE at an inopportune moment when the
guest is switching endianness. This is not dependent on host
endianness. The HILE check is used when taking a memory dump of a
HV-capable machine such as the emulated powernv.

I think the actual issue might be that we're calling
ppc_interrupts_little_endian with hv=true for the dump.

> Currently the HILE bit is never set in the HID0 register even if the
> qemu is running in Little-Endian mode. This causes the guest dumps to be
> always taken in Big-Endian byte ordering. A guest memory dump of a
> Little-Endian guest running on Little-Endian qemu guest fails with the
> crash tool as illustrated below:
>

Could you describe in more detail what is your setup? Specifically
whether both guests are running TCG or KVM (info kvm) and the state of
the nested-hv capability in QEMU command line.