[OpenBIOS] [PATCH v2] ppc: use rfid when running under a CPU from the 970 family.
Cédric Le Goater
clg at kaod.org
Tue Jun 21 23:36:48 CEST 2016
A recent attempt to restrict the use of rfi on 64bit cpus in qemu
broke 32bit OpenBIOS when run under a 970.
This patches memory to replace rfi instructions with rfid in the
vector code.
Signed-off-by: Cédric Le Goater <clg at kaod.org>
Suggested-by: Alexander Graf <agraf at suse.de>
---
Tested on qemu.
arch/ppc/qemu/ofmem.c | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 24 insertions(+)
Index: openbios.git/arch/ppc/qemu/ofmem.c
===================================================================
--- openbios.git.orig/arch/ppc/qemu/ofmem.c
+++ openbios.git/arch/ppc/qemu/ofmem.c
@@ -478,6 +478,26 @@ isi_exception(void)
hash_page(nip, phys, mode);
}
+/* When running on ppc64, we cannot use rfi anymore. Let's patch the
+ * vectors to use rfid instead.
+ */
+#define RFI 0x4c000064
+#define RFID 0x4c000024
+
+static void patch_rfi(char *from, uint32_t len)
+{
+ int i;
+
+ for (i = 0; i < len; i += 4) {
+ uint32_t* addr = (uint32_t *) (from + i);
+ if (*addr == RFI)
+ *addr = RFID;
+ }
+ flush_icache_range(from, from + len);
+}
+
+extern char __vectors[];
+extern char __vectors_end[];
/************************************************************************/
/* init / cleanup */
@@ -532,6 +552,10 @@ setup_mmu(unsigned long ramsize)
memcpy((void *)get_rom_base(), (void *)OF_CODE_START, OF_CODE_SIZE);
+ if (is_ppc64()) {
+ patch_rfi(0x0, (uint32_t) __vectors_end - (uint32_t) __vectors);
+ }
+
/* Enable MMU */
mtmsr(mfmsr() | MSR_IR | MSR_DR);
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