[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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