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From: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman•id.au>
To: anton@samba•org, Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@ozlabs•ru>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba•org>,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel•crashing.org>,
	Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling•org>,
	David Gibson <david@gibson•dropbear.id.au>,
	Alexander Graf <agraf@suse•de>,
	matt@ozlabs•org
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists•ozlabs.org, qemu-ppc@nongnu•org,
	qemu-devel@nongnu•org
Subject: Re: [1/3] powerpc: scan_features() updates incorrect bits
Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2016 14:40:45 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1460954445.21777.0.camel@ellerman.id.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3qmfyk6wGYz9t6X@ozlabs.org>

On Sat, 2016-04-16 at 00:27 +1000, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> On Fri, 2016-15-04 at 02:06:13 UTC, Unknown sender due to SPF wrote:
> > The real LE feature entry in the ibm_pa_feature struct has the
> > wrong number of elements. Instead of checking for byte 5, bit 0,
> > we check for byte 0, bit 0, and we also incorrectly update cpu user
> > feature bit 5.
> 
> Finally the user feature, we're setting 5, ie. 0x4 | 0x1, which is:
> 
> #define PPC_FEATURE_PPC_LE		0x00000001
> 
> And nothing else, 0x4 is free.

Buuuut, we should reserve 0x4 for the foreseeable future. Because it is
erroneously set on older kernels.

cheers

  reply	other threads:[~2016-04-18  4:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-04-04  6:44 PR KVM and TM issues Anton Blanchard
2016-04-04  7:00 ` Alexey Kardashevskiy
2016-04-04 10:43   ` Anton Blanchard
2016-04-04 11:09     ` [PATCH] spapr: Don't set the TM ibm,pa-features bit in PR KVM mode Anton Blanchard
2016-04-04 11:13       ` [PATCH] spapr: Don't set the TM ibm, pa-features " Alexander Graf
2016-04-30  0:48         ` [PATCH v2] spapr: Don't set the TM ibm,pa-features " Anton Blanchard
2016-05-02  9:36           ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] spapr: Don't set the TM ibm, pa-features " haris iqbal
2016-05-27  4:52           ` David Gibson
2016-06-07 12:28           ` [PATCH 1/2] Add PowerPC AT_HWCAP2 definitions Anton Blanchard
2016-06-07 12:32             ` [PATCH 2/2] spapr: Better handling of ibm,pa-features TM bit Anton Blanchard
2016-06-08  2:26               ` David Gibson
2016-07-05  5:19                 ` [PATCH 0/3] Rework spapr: Better handling of ibm, pa-features " Sam Bobroff
2016-07-05  5:19                   ` [PATCH 1/3] spapr: Disable ibm, pa-features HTM bit Sam Bobroff
2016-07-05  5:51                     ` David Gibson
2016-07-05  5:19                   ` [PATCH 2/3] Add KVM_CAP_PPC_HTM to linux/kvm.h Sam Bobroff
2016-07-05  6:05                     ` David Gibson
2016-07-06  4:41                       ` Sam Bobroff
2016-07-06  5:09                         ` David Gibson
2016-07-05  5:19                   ` [PATCH 3/3] spapr: Set ibm, pa-features HTM from KVM_CAP_PPC_HTM Sam Bobroff
2016-07-05  6:52                     ` David Gibson
2016-07-06  5:35                   ` [PATCH v2 0/3] Rework spapr: Better handling of ibm, pa-features TM bit Sam Bobroff
2016-07-06  5:35                     ` [PATCH v2 1/3] spapr: Disable ibm, pa-features HTM bit Sam Bobroff
2016-07-07  4:38                       ` David Gibson
2016-07-06  5:35                     ` [PATCH v2 2/3] Add KVM_CAP_PPC_HTM to linux/kvm.h Sam Bobroff
2016-07-07  4:38                       ` David Gibson
2016-07-06  5:35                     ` [PATCH v2 3/3] spapr: Set ibm, pa-features HTM from KVM_CAP_PPC_HTM Sam Bobroff
2016-07-07  4:39                       ` David Gibson
2016-06-08  2:19             ` [PATCH 1/2] Add PowerPC AT_HWCAP2 definitions David Gibson
2016-04-05  2:12       ` [PATCH] spapr: Don't set the TM ibm,pa-features bit in PR KVM mode Paul Mackerras
2016-04-05  4:09         ` David Gibson
2016-04-05  7:33           ` Alexey Kardashevskiy
2016-04-04 11:11     ` [PATCH] powerpc: Clear user CPU feature bits if TM is disabled at runtime Anton Blanchard
2016-04-05  0:52       ` David Gibson
2016-04-05  9:35       ` Michael Ellerman
2016-04-05  9:56         ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2016-04-05 22:40           ` Michael Ellerman
2016-04-15  2:06       ` [PATCH 1/3] powerpc: scan_features() updates incorrect bits Anton Blanchard
2016-04-15 14:27         ` [1/3] " Michael Ellerman
2016-04-18  4:40           ` Michael Ellerman [this message]
2016-04-18  4:16         ` Michael Ellerman
2016-04-18 10:36         ` [PATCH v2 1/3] powerpc: scan_features() updates incorrect bits for REAL_LE Michael Ellerman
2016-04-19 10:09           ` [v2, " Michael Ellerman
2016-04-15  2:07       ` [PATCH 2/3] powerpc: Update cpu_user_features2 in scan_features() Anton Blanchard
2016-04-19 10:09         ` [2/3] " Michael Ellerman
2016-04-15  2:08       ` [PATCH 3/3] powerpc: Update TM user feature bits " Anton Blanchard
2016-04-19 10:09         ` [3/3] " Michael Ellerman
2016-04-04 11:09   ` PR KVM and TM issues Michael Neuling
2016-04-05  7:29     ` Alexey Kardashevskiy

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