[PATCH V2 1/2] powerpc/kexec: Reset secondary cpu endianess before kexec
Scott Wood
scottwood at freescale.com
Thu Jul 9 08:02:08 AEST 2015
On Wed, 2015-07-08 at 14:37 +1000, Samuel Mendoza-Jonas wrote:
> If the target kernel does not inlcude the FIXUP_ENDIAN check, coming
> from a different-endian kernel will cause the target kernel to panic.
> All ppc64 kernels can handle starting in big-endian mode, so return to
> big-endian before branching into the target kernel.
>
> This mainly affects pseries as secondaries on powernv are returned to
> OPAL.
>
> Signed-off-by: Samuel Mendoza-Jonas <sam.mj at au1.ibm.com>
> ---
> v2: Add an #ifdef for subarch-specific code
> Neaten the endian check (and extra call to mfmsr!) by modifying the msr
> and
> branching to the target kernel in the same call to rfid.
> arch/powerpc/kernel/misc_64.S | 13 +++++++++++--
> 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/misc_64.S b/arch/powerpc/kernel/misc_64.S
> index 4e314b9..89f0600 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/misc_64.S
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/misc_64.S
> @@ -475,9 +475,18 @@ _GLOBAL(kexec_wait)
> #ifdef CONFIG_KEXEC /* use no memory without kexec */
> lwz r4,0(r5)
> cmpwi 0,r4,0
> - bnea 0x60
> + beq 99b
> +#ifdef CONFIG_PPC_BOOK3S_64
> + li r10,0x60
> + mfmsr r11
> + clrrdi r11,r11,1 /* Clear MSR_LE */
> + mtsrr0 r10
> + mtsrr1 r11
> + rfid
> +#else
> + b 0x60
> +#endif
> #endif
> - b 99b
"b 0x60" needs to be "ba 0x60".
-Scott
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