Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] ppc: BOOK3E: nothing should be done when MSR:PR is set

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt]

On Thu, 2016-11-17 at 14:49 +0100, Vladimir Svoboda wrote:
> The server architecture (BOOK3S) specifies that any instruction that
> sets MSR:PR will also set MSR:EE, IR and DR.
> However there is no such behavior specification for the embedded
> architecture (BOOK3E).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Vladimir Svoboda <address@hidden>

Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <address@hidden>

> ---
>  target-ppc/helper_regs.h | 11 +++++++----
>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/target-ppc/helper_regs.h b/target-ppc/helper_regs.h
> index bb9ce60..6213816 100644
> --- a/target-ppc/helper_regs.h
> +++ b/target-ppc/helper_regs.h
> @@ -131,11 +131,14 @@ static inline int hreg_store_msr(CPUPPCState
> *env, target_ulong value,
>      }
>      /* If PR=1 then EE, IR and DR must be 1
>       *
> -     * Note: We only enforce this on 64-bit processors. It appears
> that
> -     * 32-bit implementations supports PR=1 and EE/DR/IR=0 and MacOS
> -     * exploits it.
> +     * Note: We only enforce this on 64-bit server processors.
> +     * It appears that:
> +     * - 32-bit implementations supports PR=1 and EE/DR/IR=0 and
> MacOS
> +     *   exploits it.
> +     * - 64-bit embedded implementations do not need any operation
> to be
> +     *   performed when PR is set.
>       */
> -    if ((env->insns_flags & PPC_64B) && ((value >> MSR_PR) & 1)) {
> +    if ((env->insns_flags & PPC_SEGMENT_64B) && ((value >> MSR_PR) &
> 1)) {
>          value |= (1 << MSR_EE) | (1 << MSR_DR) | (1 << MSR_IR);
>      }
>  #endif