[PPC64] Allow emulation of mfpvr on ppc64 kernel

David Gibson david at gibson.dropbear.id.au
Thu Mar 10 13:18:48 EST 2005


Andrew, please apply.

Allow userspace programs on ppc64 to use the (privileged) mfpvr
instruction to determine the processor type.  At the moment it
emulates the instruction to provide the real PVR value, though it
could be made to lie in future if for some reason we wish to restrict
what CPU features userspace uses.

If nothing else this means that some existing ppc32 applications will
now run on a 64-bit kernel (the 32-bit kernel has long supported this
emulation).  It will also be necessary for ppc64 perfctr support,
where userspace requires finer-grained cpu type information than the
kernel in order to correctly program the performance monitor control
registers.

Signed-off-by: David Gibson <dwg at au1.ibm.com>

Index: working-2.6/arch/ppc64/kernel/traps.c
===================================================================
--- working-2.6.orig/arch/ppc64/kernel/traps.c	2005-03-06 07:08:24.000000000 +1100
+++ working-2.6/arch/ppc64/kernel/traps.c	2005-03-10 13:05:25.000000000 +1100
@@ -279,6 +279,9 @@
  * fault.  Return zero on success.
  */
 
+#define INST_MFSPR_PVR		0x7c1f42a6
+#define INST_MFSPR_PVR_MASK	0xfc1fffff
+
 #define INST_DCBA		0x7c0005ec
 #define INST_DCBA_MASK		0x7c0007fe
 
@@ -297,6 +300,15 @@
 	if (get_user(instword, (unsigned int __user *)(regs->nip)))
 		return -EFAULT;
 
+	/* Emulate the mfspr rD, PVR. */
+	if ((instword & INST_MFSPR_PVR_MASK) == INST_MFSPR_PVR) {
+		unsigned int rd;
+
+		rd = (instword >> 21) & 0x1f;
+		regs->gpr[rd] = mfspr(SPRN_PVR);
+		return 0;
+	}
+
 	/* Emulating the dcba insn is just a no-op.  */
 	if ((instword & INST_DCBA_MASK) == INST_DCBA) {
 		static int warned;
@@ -390,11 +402,6 @@
 	if (regs->msr & 0x100000) {
 		/* IEEE FP exception */
 		parse_fpe(regs);
-
-	} else if (regs->msr & 0x40000) {
-		/* Privileged instruction */
-		_exception(SIGILL, regs, ILL_PRVOPC, regs->nip);
-
 	} else if (regs->msr & 0x20000) {
 		/* trap exception */
 
@@ -411,7 +418,7 @@
 		_exception(SIGTRAP, regs, TRAP_BRKPT, regs->nip);
 
 	} else {
-		/* Illegal instruction; try to emulate it.  */
+		/* Privileged or illegal instruction; try to emulate it. */
 		switch (emulate_instruction(regs)) {
 		case 0:
 			regs->nip += 4;
@@ -423,7 +430,12 @@
 			break;
 
 		default:
-			_exception(SIGILL, regs, ILL_ILLOPC, regs->nip);
+			if (regs->msr & 0x40000)
+				/* priveleged */
+				_exception(SIGILL, regs, ILL_PRVOPC, regs->nip);
+			else
+				/* illegal */
+				_exception(SIGILL, regs, ILL_ILLOPC, regs->nip);
 			break;
 		}
 	}


-- 
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