From: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
To: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, bsingharora@gmail.com, yilzhang@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc/kexec: Fix kexec/kdump in P9 guest kernels
Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2017 15:24:55 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171124042455.GB18727@umbus.fritz.box> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171124035102.28051-1-mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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On Fri, Nov 24, 2017 at 02:51:02PM +1100, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> The code that cleans up the IAMR/AMOR before kexec'ing failed to
> remember that when we're running as a guest AMOR is not writable, it's
> hypervisor privileged.
>
> They symptom is that the kexec stops before entering purgatory and
> nothing else is seen on the console. If you examine the state of the
> system all threads will be in the 0x700 program check handler.
>
> Fix it by making the write to AMOR dependent on HV mode.
>
> Fixes: 1e2a516e89fc ("powerpc/kexec: Fix radix to hash kexec due to IAMR/AMOR")
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.10+
> Reported-by: Yilin Zhang <yilzhang@redhat.com>
> Debugged-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Reviewed-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Tested-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
> ---
> arch/powerpc/kernel/misc_64.S | 2 ++
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/misc_64.S b/arch/powerpc/kernel/misc_64.S
> index 8ac0bd2bddb0..3280953a82cf 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/misc_64.S
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/misc_64.S
> @@ -623,7 +623,9 @@ BEGIN_FTR_SECTION
> * NOTE, we rely on r0 being 0 from above.
> */
> mtspr SPRN_IAMR,r0
> +BEGIN_FTR_SECTION_NESTED(42)
> mtspr SPRN_AMOR,r0
> +END_FTR_SECTION_NESTED_IFSET(CPU_FTR_HVMODE, 42)
> END_FTR_SECTION_IFSET(CPU_FTR_ARCH_300)
>
> /* save regs for local vars on new stack.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-11-24 4:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-11-24 3:51 [PATCH] powerpc/kexec: Fix kexec/kdump in P9 guest kernels Michael Ellerman
2017-11-24 4:13 ` Balbir Singh
2017-11-24 4:24 ` David Gibson [this message]
2017-11-24 9:46 ` Michael Ellerman
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