Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3] target/ppc: Allow privileged access to SPR_PCR

[David Gibson]

On Mon, Jun 04, 2018 at 06:15:13PM +0930, Joel Stanley wrote:
> The powerpc Linux kernel[1] and skiboot firmware[2] recently gained changes
> that cause the Processor Compatibility Register (PCR) SPR to be cleared.
> 
> These changes cause Linux to fail to boot on the Qemu powernv machine
> with an error:
> 
>  Trying to write privileged spr 338 (0x152) at 0000000030017f0c
> 
> With this patch Qemu makes this register available as a hypervisor
> privileged register.
> 
> Note that bits set in this register disable features of the processor.
> Currently the only register state that is supported is when the register
> is zeroed (enable all features). This is sufficient for guests to
> once again boot.
> 
> [1] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/address@hidden
> [2] https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/915932/
> 
> Signed-off-by: Joel Stanley <address@hidden>

Applied to ppc-for-3.0, thanks.

> ---
> v2:
>  - Change error message to say Invalid instead of Unimplemented
>  - Fix compile warning on other powerpc targets, thanks patchew
> v3:
>  - Mask against pcr_mask before storing
>  - Drop check for non-zero value
> ---
>  target/ppc/helper.h             | 1 +
>  target/ppc/misc_helper.c        | 9 +++++++++
>  target/ppc/translate_init.inc.c | 9 +++++++--
>  3 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/target/ppc/helper.h b/target/ppc/helper.h
> index 19453c68138a..d751f0e21909 100644
> --- a/target/ppc/helper.h
> +++ b/target/ppc/helper.h
> @@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ DEF_HELPER_2(pminsn, void, env, i32)
>  DEF_HELPER_1(rfid, void, env)
>  DEF_HELPER_1(hrfid, void, env)
>  DEF_HELPER_2(store_lpcr, void, env, tl)
> +DEF_HELPER_2(store_pcr, void, env, tl)
>  #endif
>  DEF_HELPER_1(check_tlb_flush_local, void, env)
>  DEF_HELPER_1(check_tlb_flush_global, void, env)
> diff --git a/target/ppc/misc_helper.c b/target/ppc/misc_helper.c
> index 8c8cba5cc6f1..b88493009609 100644
> --- a/target/ppc/misc_helper.c
> +++ b/target/ppc/misc_helper.c
> @@ -20,6 +20,7 @@
>  #include "cpu.h"
>  #include "exec/exec-all.h"
>  #include "exec/helper-proto.h"
> +#include "qemu/error-report.h"
>  
>  #include "helper_regs.h"
>  
> @@ -98,6 +99,14 @@ void helper_store_ptcr(CPUPPCState *env, target_ulong val)
>          tlb_flush(CPU(cpu));
>      }
>  }
> +
> +void helper_store_pcr(CPUPPCState *env, target_ulong value)
> +{
> +    PowerPCCPU *cpu = ppc_env_get_cpu(env);
> +    PowerPCCPUClass *pcc = POWERPC_CPU_GET_CLASS(cpu);
> +
> +    env->spr[SPR_PCR] = value & pcc->pcr_mask;
> +}
>  #endif /* defined(TARGET_PPC64) */
>  
>  void helper_store_pidr(CPUPPCState *env, target_ulong val)
> diff --git a/target/ppc/translate_init.inc.c b/target/ppc/translate_init.inc.c
> index ab782cb32aaa..1a89017ddea8 100644
> --- a/target/ppc/translate_init.inc.c
> +++ b/target/ppc/translate_init.inc.c
> @@ -424,6 +424,10 @@ static void spr_write_ptcr(DisasContext *ctx, int sprn, 
> int gprn)
>      gen_helper_store_ptcr(cpu_env, cpu_gpr[gprn]);
>  }
>  
> +static void spr_write_pcr(DisasContext *ctx, int sprn, int gprn)
> +{
> +    gen_helper_store_pcr(cpu_env, cpu_gpr[gprn]);
> +}
>  #endif
>  #endif
>  
> @@ -7957,11 +7961,12 @@ static void gen_spr_power6_common(CPUPPCState *env)
>  #endif
>      /*
>       * Register PCR to report POWERPC_EXCP_PRIV_REG instead of
> -     * POWERPC_EXCP_INVAL_SPR.
> +     * POWERPC_EXCP_INVAL_SPR in userspace. Permit hypervisor access.
>       */
> -    spr_register(env, SPR_PCR, "PCR",
> +    spr_register_hv(env, SPR_PCR, "PCR",
>                   SPR_NOACCESS, SPR_NOACCESS,
>                   SPR_NOACCESS, SPR_NOACCESS,
> +                 &spr_read_generic, &spr_write_pcr,
>                   0x00000000);
>  }
>  

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