Re: [PATCH qemu v6 1/6] ppc: Start CPU in the default mode which is big-endian 32bit

[Alexey Kardashevskiy]

On 12/02/2020 16:43, David Gibson wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 03, 2020 at 02:29:38PM +1100, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote:
>> At the moment we enforce 64bit mode on a CPU when reset. This does not
>> make difference as SLOF or Linux set the desired mode straight away.
>> However if we ever boot something other than these two,
>> this might not work as, for example, GRUB expects the default MSR state
>> and does not work properly.
>>
>> This removes setting MSR_SF from the PPC CPU reset.
> 
> Hrm.  This is in the core cpu model so it doesn't just affect pseries,
> but powernv (and theoretically others) as well.  Generally the cpu
> model should have the bare metal behaviour, and we can override it in
> the pseries machine if necessary.
> 
> So for a bare metal POWER system, what mode do we start in?  I'm
> guessing it probably doesn't matter in practice, since the skiboot
> firmware also probably does a mode set on entry, but it'd be nice to
> get this right in theory.


Huh. "Figure 65.  MSR setting due to interrupt" of PowerISA 3.0 says
"The SF bit is set to 1" so after all the existing behavior is correct
and my patch is just wrong. Cool.



> 
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Alexey Kardashevskiy <address@hidden>
>> ---
>>  target/ppc/translate_init.inc.c | 6 ------
>>  1 file changed, 6 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/target/ppc/translate_init.inc.c 
>> b/target/ppc/translate_init.inc.c
>> index 53995f62eab2..f6a676cf55e8 100644
>> --- a/target/ppc/translate_init.inc.c
>> +++ b/target/ppc/translate_init.inc.c
>> @@ -10710,12 +10710,6 @@ static void ppc_cpu_reset(CPUState *s)
>>  #endif
>>  #endif
>>  
>> -#if defined(TARGET_PPC64)
>> -    if (env->mmu_model & POWERPC_MMU_64) {
>> -        msr |= (1ULL << MSR_SF);
>> -    }
>> -#endif
>> -
>>      hreg_store_msr(env, msr, 1);
>>  
>>  #if !defined(CONFIG_USER_ONLY)
> 

-- 
Alexey