[PATCH] powerpc/xmon: check before calling xive functions
Michael Ellerman
mpe at ellerman.id.au
Thu Oct 19 00:02:31 AEDT 2017
Breno Leitao <leitao at debian.org> writes:
> Currently xmon could call XIVE functions from OPAL even if the XIVE is
> disabled or does not exist in the system, as in POWER8 machines. This
> causes the following exception:
>
> 1:mon> dx
> cpu 0x1: Vector: 700 (Program Check) at [c000000423c93450]
> pc: c00000000009cfa4: opal_xive_dump+0x50/0x68
> lr: c0000000000997b8: opal_return+0x0/0x50
>
> This patch simply checks if XIVE is enabled before calling XIVE
> functions.
Thanks. I'll merge this.
But we should also fix it in skiboot.
cheers
> Suggested-by: Guilherme G. Piccoli <gpiccoli at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao <leitao at debian.org>
> ---
> arch/powerpc/xmon/xmon.c | 6 ++++++
> 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/xmon/xmon.c b/arch/powerpc/xmon/xmon.c
> index 4679aeb84767..b34976c4a6ba 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/xmon/xmon.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/xmon/xmon.c
> @@ -2508,6 +2508,12 @@ static void dump_xives(void)
> unsigned long num;
> int c;
>
> + if (!xive_enabled()) {
> + printf("Xive disabled on this system\n");
> +
> + return;
> + }
> +
> c = inchar();
> if (c == 'a') {
> dump_all_xives();
> --
> 2.14.2
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