[PATCH 1/5] powerpc/tm: Make room for hypervisor in abort cause codes
Michael Neuling
mikey at neuling.org
Mon May 27 14:09:37 EST 2013
PAPR carves out 0xff-0xe0 for hypervisor use of transactional memory software
abort cause codes. Unfortunately we don't respect this currently.
Below fixes this to move our cause codes to below this region.
Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey at neuling.org>
Cc: <stable at vger.kernel.org> # 3.9 only
---
arch/powerpc/include/asm/reg.h | 15 ++++++++-------
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/reg.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/reg.h
index a613651..8f6a94b 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/reg.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/reg.h
@@ -113,14 +113,15 @@
/* Reason codes describing kernel causes for transaction aborts. By
convention, bit0 is copied to TEXASR[56] (IBM bit 7) which is set if
- the failure is persistent.
+ the failure is persistent. PAPR saves 0xff-0xe0 for the hypervisor.
*/
-#define TM_CAUSE_RESCHED 0xfe
-#define TM_CAUSE_TLBI 0xfc
-#define TM_CAUSE_FAC_UNAV 0xfa
-#define TM_CAUSE_SYSCALL 0xf9 /* Persistent */
-#define TM_CAUSE_MISC 0xf6
-#define TM_CAUSE_SIGNAL 0xf4
+#define TM_CAUSE_PERSISTENT 0x01
+#define TM_CAUSE_RESCHED 0xde
+#define TM_CAUSE_TLBI 0xdc
+#define TM_CAUSE_FAC_UNAV 0xda
+#define TM_CAUSE_SYSCALL 0xd8 /* future use */
+#define TM_CAUSE_MISC 0xd6 /* future use */
+#define TM_CAUSE_SIGNAL 0xd4
#if defined(CONFIG_PPC_BOOK3S_64)
#define MSR_64BIT MSR_SF
--
1.7.10.4
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