[v3][PATCH 8/8] book3e/kexec/kdump: recover "r4 = 0" to create the initial TLB
Scott Wood
scottwood at freescale.com
Wed Dec 18 14:50:38 EST 2013
On Tue, 2013-07-09 at 16:03 +0800, Tiejun Chen wrote:
> In commit 96f013f, "powerpc/kexec: Add kexec "hold" support for Book3e
> processors", requires that GPR4 survive the "hold" process, for IBM Blue
> Gene/Q with with some very strange firmware. But for FSL Book3E, r4 = 1
> to indicate that the initial TLB entry for this core already exists so
> we still should set r4 with 0 to create that initial TLB.
>
> Signed-off-by: Tiejun Chen <tiejun.chen at windriver.com>
> ---
> arch/powerpc/kernel/head_64.S | 4 ++++
> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/head_64.S b/arch/powerpc/kernel/head_64.S
> index 0b46c9d..d546c5e 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/head_64.S
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/head_64.S
> @@ -127,6 +127,10 @@ __secondary_hold:
> /* Grab our physical cpu number */
> mr r24,r3
> /* stash r4 for book3e */
> +#ifdef CONFIG_PPC_FSL_BOOK3E
> + /* we need to setup initial TLB entry. */
> + li r4,0
> +#endif
> mr r25,r4
This breaks being able to build one kernel that supports both FSL book3e
and IBM book3e.
-Scott
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