Fix pseries hcall functions
Anton Blanchard
anton at samba.org
Thu Feb 10 22:03:48 EST 2005
Hi Alan,
> Do you really need to save cr? ie. Does the hypervisor call trash
> cr2, cr3 or cr4?
Good question. I went back and read the spec, it only trashes 0, 1, 5-7.
> > _GLOBAL(plpar_hcall_4out)
> > mfcr r0
> > - std r0,-8(r1)
> > - ld r14,112(r1)
> > - stdu r1,-48(r1)
> > -
> > - std r8,32(r1) /* Save out ptrs. */
> > - std r9,24(r1)
> > - std r10,16(r1)
> > - std r14,8(r1)
> > -
> > - HVSC /* invoke the hypervisor */
> > + std r0,8(r1)
>
> stw here.
Ouch, good catch.
Anton
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