Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4] target/ppc: Allow PIR read in privileged mode

[David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>]

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On Fri, Jun 08, 2018 at 11:46:55AM +0200, Greg Kurz wrote:
> From: luporl <leandro.lupori@gmail.com>
> 
> According to PowerISA, the PIR register should be readable in privileged
> mode also, not only in hypervisor privileged mode.
> 
> PowerISA 3.0 - 4.3.3 Processor Identification Register
> 
> "Read access to the PIR is privileged; write access is not provided."
> 
> Figure 18 in section 4.4.4 explicitly confirms that mfspr PIR is privileged
> and doesn't require hypervisor state.

Applied, thanks.

> 
> Cc: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
> Cc: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
> Cc: qemu-ppc@nongnu.org
> Signed-off-by: Leandro Lupori <leandro.lupori@gmail.com>
> Reviewed-by: Jose Ricardo Ziviani <joserz@linux.ibm.com>
> Reviewed-by: Greg Kurz <groug@kaod.org>
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kurz <groug@kaod.org>
> ---
> Changes in v2:
> - added my Signed-off-by, maintainers CC and Jose's Reviewed-by tags
> 
> Changes in v3:
> - added subsystem name, version tag and summary of changes
> - added the section of PowerISA that describes PIR access privileges
> 
> Changes in v4 (Greg):
> - rebased against ppc-for-3.0 (ie, file is now target/ppc/translate_init.inc.c)
> - added some more context from PowerISA
> ---
>  target/ppc/translate_init.inc.c |    2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/target/ppc/translate_init.inc.c b/target/ppc/translate_init.inc.c
> index 1a89017ddea8..bb9296f5a3da 100644
> --- a/target/ppc/translate_init.inc.c
> +++ b/target/ppc/translate_init.inc.c
> @@ -7819,7 +7819,7 @@ static void gen_spr_book3s_ids(CPUPPCState *env)
>      /* Processor identification */
>      spr_register_hv(env, SPR_PIR, "PIR",
>                   SPR_NOACCESS, SPR_NOACCESS,
> -                 SPR_NOACCESS, SPR_NOACCESS,
> +                 &spr_read_generic, SPR_NOACCESS,
>                   &spr_read_generic, NULL,
>                   0x00000000);
>      spr_register_hv(env, SPR_HID0, "HID0",
> 

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