[PATCH v2] powerpc: Fix xmon for systems without MSR[RI]

Jimi Xenidis jimix at pobox.com
Sat Sep 24 01:40:46 EST 2011


From: David Gibson <dwg at au1.ibm.com>

Based on patch by David Gibson <dwg at au1.ibm.com>

xmon has a longstanding bug on systems which are SMP-capable but lack
the MSR[RI] bit.  In these cases, xmon invoked by IPI on secondary
CPUs will not properly keep quiet, but will print stuff, thereby
garbling the primary xmon's output.  This patch fixes it, by ignoring
the RI bit if the processor does not support it.

There's already a version of this for 4xx upstream, which we'll need
to extend to other RI-lacking CPUs at some point.  For now this adds
Book3e processors to the mix.

Signed-off-by: Jimi Xenidis <jimix at pobox.com>

---
Restricted it to Book3e
---
 arch/powerpc/xmon/xmon.c |    4 ++--
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/xmon/xmon.c b/arch/powerpc/xmon/xmon.c
index 42541bb..13f82f8 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/xmon/xmon.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/xmon/xmon.c
@@ -340,8 +340,8 @@ int cpus_are_in_xmon(void)
 
 static inline int unrecoverable_excp(struct pt_regs *regs)
 {
-#ifdef CONFIG_4xx
-	/* We have no MSR_RI bit on 4xx, so we simply return false */
+#if defined(CONFIG_4xx) || defined(CONFIG_BOOK3E)
+	/* We have no MSR_RI bit on 4xx or Book3e, so we simply return false */
 	return 0;
 #else
 	return ((regs->msr & MSR_RI) == 0);
-- 
1.7.0.4



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