[added to the 4.1 stable tree] powerpc/pseries: Add POWER8NVL support to ibm,client-architecture-support call

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From: Thomas Huth <thuth@xxxxxxxxxx>

This patch has been added to the 4.1 stable tree. If you have any
objections, please let us know.

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[ Upstream commit 7cc851039d643a2ee7df4d18177150f2c3a484f5 ]

If we do not provide the PVR for POWER8NVL, a guest on this system
currently ends up in PowerISA 2.06 compatibility mode on KVM, since QEMU
does not provide a generic PowerISA 2.07 mode yet. So some new
instructions from POWER8 (like "mtvsrd") get disabled for the guest,
resulting in crashes when using code compiled explicitly for
POWER8 (e.g. with the "-mcpu=power8" option of GCC).

Fixes: ddee09c099c3 ("powerpc: Add PVR for POWER8NVL processor")
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx # v4.0+
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 arch/powerpc/kernel/prom_init.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom_init.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom_init.c
index fd1fe4c..4265436 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom_init.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom_init.c
@@ -647,6 +647,7 @@ unsigned char ibm_architecture_vec[] = {
 	W(0xffff0000), W(0x003e0000),	/* POWER6 */
 	W(0xffff0000), W(0x003f0000),	/* POWER7 */
 	W(0xffff0000), W(0x004b0000),	/* POWER8E */
+	W(0xffff0000), W(0x004c0000),   /* POWER8NVL */
 	W(0xffff0000), W(0x004d0000),	/* POWER8 */
 	W(0xffffffff), W(0x0f000004),	/* all 2.07-compliant */
 	W(0xffffffff), W(0x0f000003),	/* all 2.06-compliant */
-- 
2.5.0

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