[PATCH] powerpc: Fix emulate_step() on POWER6

Ravi Bangoria ravi.bangoria at linux.ibm.com
Fri May 11 13:38:09 AEST 2018


On 05/11/2018 07:05 AM, Michael Neuling wrote:
> emulate_step() will fail on POWER6 currently with:
>
>   emulate_step_test: lfdx           : PASS
>   emulate_step_test: stfdx          : PASS
>   emulate_step_test: lvx            : PASS
>   emulate_step_test: stvx           : PASS
>   Oops: Exception in kernel mode, sig: 4 [#1]
>   BE SMP NR_CPUS=2048 NUMA pSeries
>   Modules linked in:
>   CPU: 1 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 4.17.0-rc4-gcc5x-g036db8b #1
>   NIP:  c000000000095c24 LR: c000000000094bdc CTR: c00000000008f4a0
>   REGS: c0000000494c34f0 TRAP: 0700   Not tainted  (4.17.0-rc4-gcc5x-g036db8b)
>   MSR:  8000000000089032 <SF,EE,ME,IR,DR,RI>  CR: 48004224  XER: 20000009
>   CFAR: c000000000094bd0 SOFTE: 0
>   GPR00: c000000000094bdc c0000000494c3770 c000000001238400 0000000000000027
>   GPR04: c0000000494c3870 0000000000000008 8000000000009032 8000000000809032
>   GPR08: 0000000000000070 800000000280b032 c0000000494c0000 0000000000000000
>   GPR12: 0000000044000428 c000000007fff300 c00000000000e1c0 0000000000000000
>   GPR16: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
>   GPR20: 0000000000000000 bfffffffffffffff c0000000494c3870 0000000000000027
>   GPR24: c0000000494c3860 0000000000000000 c000000000da0538 c0000000494c3b90
>   GPR28: 0000000000000000 c0000000494c3970 c0000000494c3a20 0000000000000008
>   NIP [c000000000095c24] .load_vsrn+0x28/0x54
>   LR [c000000000094bdc] .emulate_loadstore+0x167c/0x17b0
>   Call Trace:
>   [c0000000494c3770] [40fe240c7ae147ae] 0x40fe240c7ae147ae (unreliable)
>   [c0000000494c37f0] [c000000000094bdc] .emulate_loadstore+0x167c/0x17b0
>   [c0000000494c3900] [c000000000094f6c] .emulate_step+0x25c/0x5bc
>   [c0000000494c39b0] [c000000000ec90dc] .test_lxvd2x_stxvd2x+0x64/0x154
>   [c0000000494c3b90] [c000000000ec9204] .test_emulate_step+0x38/0x4c
>   [c0000000494c3c00] [c00000000000de2c] .do_one_initcall+0x5c/0x2c0
>   [c0000000494c3cd0] [c000000000eb4bf8] .kernel_init_freeable+0x314/0x4cc
>   [c0000000494c3db0] [c00000000000e1e4] .kernel_init+0x24/0x160
>   [c0000000494c3e30] [c00000000000bc24] .ret_from_kernel_thread+0x58/0xb4
>
> The below fixes this by gating the VSX tests on CPU_FTR_VSX.

Acked-by: Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria at linux.ibm.com>

Thanks,
Ravi



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