This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
powerpc: Fix definition of SIAR and SDAR registers
to the 3.14-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-fix-definition-of-siar-and-sdar-registers.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.14 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From d23fac2b27d94aeb7b65536a50d32bfdc21fe01e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Thomas Huth <thuth@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 12 May 2016 13:26:44 +0200
Subject: powerpc: Fix definition of SIAR and SDAR registers
From: Thomas Huth <thuth@xxxxxxxxxx>
commit d23fac2b27d94aeb7b65536a50d32bfdc21fe01e upstream.
The SIAR and SDAR registers are available twice, one time as SPRs
780 / 781 (unprivileged, but read-only), and one time as the SPRs
796 / 797 (privileged, but read and write). The Linux kernel code
currently uses the unprivileged SPRs - while this is OK for reading,
writing to that register of course does not work.
Since the KVM code tries to write to this register, too (see the mtspr
in book3s_hv_rmhandlers.S), the contents of this register sometimes get
lost for the guests, e.g. during migration of a VM.
To fix this issue, simply switch to the privileged SPR numbers instead.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/powerpc/include/asm/reg.h | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/reg.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/reg.h
@@ -715,13 +715,13 @@
#define SPRN_PMC6 792
#define SPRN_PMC7 793
#define SPRN_PMC8 794
-#define SPRN_SIAR 780
-#define SPRN_SDAR 781
#define SPRN_SIER 784
#define SIER_SIPR 0x2000000 /* Sampled MSR_PR */
#define SIER_SIHV 0x1000000 /* Sampled MSR_HV */
#define SIER_SIAR_VALID 0x0400000 /* SIAR contents valid */
#define SIER_SDAR_VALID 0x0200000 /* SDAR contents valid */
+#define SPRN_SIAR 796
+#define SPRN_SDAR 797
#define SPRN_TACR 888
#define SPRN_TCSCR 889
#define SPRN_CSIGR 890
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from thuth@xxxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.14/powerpc-fix-definition-of-siar-and-sdar-registers.patch
queue-3.14/powerpc-use-privileged-spr-number-for-mmcr2.patch
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