This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled powerpc: Emulate non privileged DSCR read and write to the 3.9-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: powerpc-emulate-non-privileged-dscr-read-and-write.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.9 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 73d2fb758e678c93bc76d40876c2359f0729b0ef Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Anton Blanchard <anton@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 1 May 2013 20:06:33 +0000 Subject: powerpc: Emulate non privileged DSCR read and write From: Anton Blanchard <anton@xxxxxxxxx> commit 73d2fb758e678c93bc76d40876c2359f0729b0ef upstream. POWER8 allows read and write of the DSCR in userspace. We added kernel emulation so applications could always use the instructions regardless of the CPU type. Unfortunately there are two SPRs for the DSCR and we only added emulation for the privileged one. Add code to match the non privileged one. A simple test was created to verify the fix: http://ozlabs.org/~anton/junkcode/user_dscr_test.c Without the patch we get a SIGILL and it passes with the patch. Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/powerpc/include/asm/ppc-opcode.h | 4 ++++ arch/powerpc/kernel/traps.c | 10 ++++++++-- 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/ppc-opcode.h +++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/ppc-opcode.h @@ -113,6 +113,10 @@ #define PPC_INST_MFSPR_DSCR_MASK 0xfc1fffff #define PPC_INST_MTSPR_DSCR 0x7c1103a6 #define PPC_INST_MTSPR_DSCR_MASK 0xfc1fffff +#define PPC_INST_MFSPR_DSCR_USER 0x7c0302a6 +#define PPC_INST_MFSPR_DSCR_USER_MASK 0xfc1fffff +#define PPC_INST_MTSPR_DSCR_USER 0x7c0303a6 +#define PPC_INST_MTSPR_DSCR_USER_MASK 0xfc1fffff #define PPC_INST_SLBFEE 0x7c0007a7 #define PPC_INST_STRING 0x7c00042a --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/traps.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/traps.c @@ -970,7 +970,10 @@ static int emulate_instruction(struct pt #ifdef CONFIG_PPC64 /* Emulate the mfspr rD, DSCR. */ - if (((instword & PPC_INST_MFSPR_DSCR_MASK) == PPC_INST_MFSPR_DSCR) && + if ((((instword & PPC_INST_MFSPR_DSCR_USER_MASK) == + PPC_INST_MFSPR_DSCR_USER) || + ((instword & PPC_INST_MFSPR_DSCR_MASK) == + PPC_INST_MFSPR_DSCR)) && cpu_has_feature(CPU_FTR_DSCR)) { PPC_WARN_EMULATED(mfdscr, regs); rd = (instword >> 21) & 0x1f; @@ -978,7 +981,10 @@ static int emulate_instruction(struct pt return 0; } /* Emulate the mtspr DSCR, rD. */ - if (((instword & PPC_INST_MTSPR_DSCR_MASK) == PPC_INST_MTSPR_DSCR) && + if ((((instword & PPC_INST_MTSPR_DSCR_USER_MASK) == + PPC_INST_MTSPR_DSCR_USER) || + ((instword & PPC_INST_MTSPR_DSCR_MASK) == + PPC_INST_MTSPR_DSCR)) && cpu_has_feature(CPU_FTR_DSCR)) { PPC_WARN_EMULATED(mtdscr, regs); rd = (instword >> 21) & 0x1f; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from anton@xxxxxxxxx are queue-3.9/powerpc-emulate-non-privileged-dscr-read-and-write.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html