3.6.11.6 stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Paul Mackerras [ Upstream commit bf593907f7236e95698a76b7c7a2bbf8b1165327 ] Normally, the kernel emulates a few instructions that are unimplemented on some processors (e.g. the old dcba instruction), or privileged (e.g. mfpvr). The emulation of unimplemented instructions is currently not working on the PowerNV platform. The reason is that on these machines, unimplemented and illegal instructions cause a hypervisor emulation assist interrupt, rather than a program interrupt as on older CPUs. Our vector for the emulation assist interrupt just calls program_check_exception() directly, without setting the bit in SRR1 that indicates an illegal instruction interrupt. This fixes it by making the emulation assist interrupt set that bit before calling program_check_interrupt(). With this, old programs that use no-longer implemented instructions such as dcba now work again. CC: Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt --- arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64s.S | 2 +- arch/powerpc/kernel/traps.c | 10 ++++++++++ 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64s.S b/arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64s.S index 39aa97d..6419923 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64s.S +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64s.S @@ -491,7 +491,7 @@ machine_check_common: STD_EXCEPTION_COMMON(0xb00, trap_0b, .unknown_exception) STD_EXCEPTION_COMMON(0xd00, single_step, .single_step_exception) STD_EXCEPTION_COMMON(0xe00, trap_0e, .unknown_exception) - STD_EXCEPTION_COMMON(0xe40, emulation_assist, .program_check_exception) + STD_EXCEPTION_COMMON(0xe40, emulation_assist, .emulation_assist_interrupt) STD_EXCEPTION_COMMON(0xe60, hmi_exception, .unknown_exception) STD_EXCEPTION_COMMON_ASYNC(0xf00, performance_monitor, .performance_monitor_exception) STD_EXCEPTION_COMMON(0x1300, instruction_breakpoint, .instruction_breakpoint_exception) diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/traps.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/traps.c index 3bb7197..5557044 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/traps.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/traps.c @@ -1074,6 +1074,16 @@ void __kprobes program_check_exception(struct pt_regs *regs) _exception(SIGILL, regs, ILL_ILLOPC, regs->nip); } +/* + * This occurs when running in hypervisor mode on POWER6 or later + * and an illegal instruction is encountered. + */ +void __kprobes emulation_assist_interrupt(struct pt_regs *regs) +{ + regs->msr |= REASON_ILLEGAL; + program_check_exception(regs); +} + void alignment_exception(struct pt_regs *regs) { int sig, code, fixed = 0; -- 1.7.10.4 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/