From bf593907f7236e95698a76b7c7a2bbf8b1165327 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paul Mackerras Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2013 20:07:41 +1000 Subject: powerpc: Fix emulation of illegal instructions on PowerNV platform Normally, the kernel emulates a few instructions that are unimplemented on some processors (e.g. the old dcba instruction), or privileged (e.g. mfpvr). The emulation of unimplemented instructions is currently not working on the PowerNV platform. The reason is that on these machines, unimplemented and illegal instructions cause a hypervisor emulation assist interrupt, rather than a program interrupt as on older CPUs. Our vector for the emulation assist interrupt just calls program_check_exception() directly, without setting the bit in SRR1 that indicates an illegal instruction interrupt. This fixes it by making the emulation assist interrupt set that bit before calling program_check_interrupt(). With this, old programs that use no-longer implemented instructions such as dcba now work again. CC: Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt --- arch/powerpc/kernel/traps.c | 10 ++++++++++ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+) (limited to 'arch/powerpc/kernel/traps.c') diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/traps.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/traps.c index f18c79c324ef..c0e5caf8ccc7 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/traps.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/traps.c @@ -1165,6 +1165,16 @@ bail: exception_exit(prev_state); } +/* + * This occurs when running in hypervisor mode on POWER6 or later + * and an illegal instruction is encountered. + */ +void __kprobes emulation_assist_interrupt(struct pt_regs *regs) +{ + regs->msr |= REASON_ILLEGAL; + program_check_exception(regs); +} + void alignment_exception(struct pt_regs *regs) { enum ctx_state prev_state = exception_enter(); -- cgit v1.2.1