powerpc: Fix definition of SIAR and SDAR registers

Michael Ellerman mpe at ellerman.id.au
Tue May 31 20:17:13 AEST 2016


On Thu, 2016-12-05 at 11:26:44 UTC, Thomas Huth wrote:
> The SIAR and SDAR registers are available twice, one time as SPRs
> 780 / 781 (unprivileged, but read-only), and one time as the SPRs
> 796 / 797 (privileged, but read and write). The Linux kernel code
> currently uses the unprivileged  SPRs - while this is OK for reading,
> writing to that register of course does not work.
> Since the KVM code tries to write to this register, too (see the mtspr
> in book3s_hv_rmhandlers.S), the contents of this register sometimes get
> lost for the guests, e.g. during migration of a VM.
> To fix this issue, simply switch to the privileged SPR numbers instead.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth at redhat.com>
> Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus at ozlabs.org>

Applied to powerpc fixes, thanks.

https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/d23fac2b27d94aeb7b65536a50

cheers


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