[RFC] powerpc: add kexec support on Book-E
Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
sebastian at breakpoint.cc
Mon Oct 13 00:55:05 EST 2008
* Benjamin Herrenschmidt | 2008-10-10 14:53:46 [+1100]:
>On Wed, 2008-10-01 at 23:20 +0200, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
>
>> +#define KEXEC_MODE_NOMMU 1
>> +#define KEXEC_MODE_BOOKE 2
>
>No need for runtime detection here, you cannot and likely never will be
>able to build a kernel that does bot BookE and real mode...
okay.
>> +
>> +/* 1. Find the index of the entry we're executing in */
>> + bl invstr /* Find our address */
>> +invstr:
>> + mflr r6 /* Make it accessible */
>> + mfmsr r7
>> + rlwinm r4,r7,27,31,31 /* extract MSR[IS] */
>> + mfspr r7, SPRN_PID0
>> + slwi r7,r7,16
>> + or r7,r7,r4
>> + mtspr SPRN_MAS6,r7
>> + tlbsx 0,r6 /* search MSR[IS], SPID=PID0 */
>> + mfspr r7,SPRN_MAS1
>> + andis. r7,r7,MAS1_VALID at h
>> + bne match_TLB
>
>This isn't just BookE .. it's specifically FSL BookE (or "merged"
>architecture). This isn't going to work on 44x for example. You need to
>make it clearer.
Okay, I did know that. So I put a ifdef CONFIG_FSL_BOOKE around. May I
leave that MMU setup here? Moving it over to head_fsl_booke.S would make
it clear but than I have to copy the page-copy-code as well.
Thanks for looking over these bits Ben.
>Cheers,
>Ben.
Sebastian
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