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From: Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com>
To: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
	David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Subject: [PATCH 6/15] bootwrapper: switch 64 bit cpus to 32 bit mode
Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 17:09:53 -0500 (CDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <boot-6-06.miltonm@bga.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <boot-6-00.miltonm@bga.com>

Add code to check if the processor is in 64 or 32 bit mode using
only instructions from the 32 bit subset.  If the processor is in
64 bit mode, switch to 32 bit mode by clearing MSR[SF].

Also add a 64 bit procedure descriptor to use as a elf64 entry
point.

Signed-off-by: Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com>
--- 
Merged into crt0.S instead of a separate file with a separate entry
point.

Index: kernel/arch/powerpc/boot/crt0.S
===================================================================
--- kernel.orig/arch/powerpc/boot/crt0.S	2007-07-10 03:33:36.000000000 -0500
+++ kernel/arch/powerpc/boot/crt0.S	2007-07-10 03:39:08.000000000 -0500
@@ -17,11 +17,47 @@
 _zimage_start_opd:
 	.long	_zimage_start, 0, 0, 0
 
+	/* a procedure descriptor used when pretending to be elf64_powerpc */
+	.balign	8
+	.globl	_zimage_start_64
+_zimage_start_64:
+	.long	0, _zimage_start	/* big endian, supported reloc ppc32 */
+	.long	0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0
+
+
 	.weak	_zimage_start
 	.globl	_zimage_start
 _zimage_start:
 	.globl	_zimage_start_lib
 _zimage_start_lib:
+	/* Check if the processor is running in 32 bit mode, using
+	 * only 32 bit instructions which should be safe on 32 and
+	 * 64 bit processors.
+	 *
+	 * Subtract the bottom 32 bits of MSR from the full value
+	 * recording the result.  Since MSR[SF] is in the high word,
+	 * the result will be not-equal iff in 32 bit mode (either
+	 * the processor is a 32 bit processor or MSR[SF] = 0).
+	 */
+	mfmsr	r0		/* grab whole msr		*/
+	rlwinm	r8,r0,0,0,31	/* extract bottom word		*/
+	subf.	r8,r8,r0	/* subtract, same?		*/
+	beq	0f		/* yes: we are 32 bit mode	*/
+
+	/* We are in 64-bit mode.  This program must run in 32 bit
+	 * mode.  Assume we are actually running somewhere in the
+	 * low 32 bits of the address space, so we can just turn
+	 * off MSR[SF] which is bit 0.
+	 */
+	.machine push
+	.machine "ppc64"
+	rldicl	r0,r0,0,1
+	sync
+	mtmsrd	r0
+	isync
+	.machine pop
+0:	/* We are now in 32-bit mode */
+
 	/* Work out the offset between the address we were linked at
 	   and the address where we're running. */
 	bl	1f

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-07-10 22:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-07-10 22:07 [PATCH 0/15] bootwrapper: support for kexec to zImage Milton Miller
2007-07-10 22:07 ` [PATCH 1/15] boot: find initrd location from device-tree Milton Miller
2007-07-19  2:10   ` David Gibson
2007-07-10 22:08 ` [PATCH 2/15] boot: record header bytes in gunzip_start Milton Miller
2007-07-19  2:11   ` David Gibson
2007-07-19  4:46     ` Milton Miller
2007-07-10 22:08 ` [PATCH 3/15] boot: simplfy gunzip_finish Milton Miller
2007-07-19  2:39   ` David Gibson
2007-07-19  4:01     ` Milton Miller
2007-07-19  4:31       ` David Gibson
2007-07-10 22:08 ` [PATCH 4/15] bootwrapper: smp support code Milton Miller
2007-07-10 22:09 ` [PATCH 5/15] bootwrapper: occupied memory ranges Milton Miller
2007-07-10 22:09 ` Milton Miller [this message]
2007-07-10 22:57   ` [PATCH 6/15] bootwrapper: switch 64 bit cpus to 32 bit mode Segher Boessenkool
2007-07-10 22:10 ` [PATCH 7/15] bootwrapper: Add kexec callable zImage wrapper Milton Miller
2007-07-10 23:16   ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-07-10 22:10 ` [PATCH 8/15] bootwrapper: convert flatdevtree to version 16 Milton Miller
2007-07-10 22:11 ` [PATCH 9/15] bootwrapper: rtas support Milton Miller
2007-07-10 22:11 ` [PATCH 10/15] bootwrapper: add cpio file extraction library Milton Miller
2007-07-10 22:12 ` [PATCH 11/15] bootwrapper: allow vmlinuz to be an external payload Milton Miller
2007-07-10 23:11   ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-07-10 22:12 ` [PATCH 12/15] bootwrapper: extract the vmlinux from initramfs Milton Miller
2007-07-10 22:12 ` [PATCH 13/15] bootwrapper: attach an empty vmlinux Milton Miller
2007-07-10 22:12 ` [PATCH 14/15] boot: add a hook to start cpus Milton Miller
2007-07-10 22:12 ` [PATCH/EXAMPLE 15/15] bootwrapper: example sreset marshalling Milton Miller

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