[PATCH] powerpc/pseries: Add POWER8NVL support to ibm, client-architecture-support call

Thomas Huth thuth at redhat.com
Tue May 31 15:51:17 AEST 2016


If we do not provide the PVR for POWER8NVL, a guest on this
system currently ends up in PowerISA 2.06 compatibility mode on
KVM, since QEMU does not provide a generic PowerISA 2.07 mode yet.
So some new instructions from POWER8 (like "mtvsrd") get disabled
for the guest, resulting in crashes when using code compiled
explicitly for POWER8 (e.g. with the "-mcpu=power8" option of GCC).

Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth at redhat.com>
---
 arch/powerpc/kernel/prom_init.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom_init.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom_init.c
index da51925..ccd2037 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom_init.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom_init.c
@@ -656,6 +656,7 @@ unsigned char ibm_architecture_vec[] = {
 	W(0xffff0000), W(0x003e0000),	/* POWER6 */
 	W(0xffff0000), W(0x003f0000),	/* POWER7 */
 	W(0xffff0000), W(0x004b0000),	/* POWER8E */
+	W(0xffff0000), W(0x004c0000),   /* POWER8NVL */
 	W(0xffff0000), W(0x004d0000),	/* POWER8 */
 	W(0xffffffff), W(0x0f000004),	/* all 2.07-compliant */
 	W(0xffffffff), W(0x0f000003),	/* all 2.06-compliant */
-- 
1.8.3.1



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