Data Cache Block Invalidate (dcbi) instruction was implemented back in PowerPC architecture version 2.03. It is obsolete and attempt to use of this illegal instruction results in a hypervisor emulation assistance interrupt. So, ifdef it out the option `i` in xmon for 64bit Book3S.
0:mon> fi cpu 0x0: Vector: 700 (Program Check) at [c000000003be74a0] pc: c000000000102030: cacheflush+0x180/0x1a0 lr: c000000000101f3c: cacheflush+0x8c/0x1a0 sp: c000000003be7730 msr: 8000000000081033 current = 0xc0000000035e5c00 paca = 0xc000000001910000 irqmask: 0x03 irq_happened: 0x01 pid = 1025, comm = bash Linux version 5.6.0-rc5-g5aa19adac (root@ltc-wspoon6) (gcc version 7.4.0 (Ubuntu 7.4.0-1ubuntu1~18.04.1)) #1 SMP Tue Mar 10 04:38:41 CDT 2020 cpu 0x0: Exception 700 (Program Check) in xmon, returning to main loop [c000000003be7c50] c00000000084abb0 __handle_sysrq+0xf0/0x2a0 [c000000003be7d00] c00000000084b3c0 write_sysrq_trigger+0xb0/0xe0 [c000000003be7d30] c0000000004d1edc proc_reg_write+0x8c/0x130 [c000000003be7d60] c00000000040dc7c __vfs_write+0x3c/0x70 [c000000003be7d80] c000000000410e70 vfs_write+0xd0/0x210 [c000000003be7dd0] c00000000041126c ksys_write+0xdc/0x130 [c000000003be7e20] c00000000000b9d0 system_call+0x5c/0x68 --- Exception: c01 (System Call) at 00007fffa345e420 SP (7ffff0b08ab0) is in userspace Signed-off-by: Balamuruhan S <bal...@linux.ibm.com> --- arch/powerpc/xmon/xmon.c | 12 ++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- changes in v2: ------------- Fix review comments from Segher and Michael, * change incorrect architecture version 2.01 to 2.03 in commit message. * ifdef it out the option `i` for PPC_BOOK3S_64 instead to drop it and change the commit message accordingly. diff --git a/arch/powerpc/xmon/xmon.c b/arch/powerpc/xmon/xmon.c index 0ec9640335bb..bfd5a97689cd 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/xmon/xmon.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/xmon/xmon.c @@ -335,10 +335,12 @@ static inline void cflush(void *p) asm volatile ("dcbf 0,%0; icbi 0,%0" : : "r" (p)); } +#ifndef CONFIG_PPC_BOOK3S_64 static inline void cinval(void *p) { asm volatile ("dcbi 0,%0; icbi 0,%0" : : "r" (p)); } +#endif /** * write_ciabr() - write the CIABR SPR @@ -1791,8 +1793,9 @@ static void prregs(struct pt_regs *fp) static void cacheflush(void) { - int cmd; unsigned long nflush; +#ifndef CONFIG_PPC_BOOK3S_64 + int cmd; cmd = inchar(); if (cmd != 'i') @@ -1800,13 +1803,14 @@ static void cacheflush(void) scanhex((void *)&adrs); if (termch != '\n') termch = 0; +#endif nflush = 1; scanhex(&nflush); nflush = (nflush + L1_CACHE_BYTES - 1) / L1_CACHE_BYTES; if (setjmp(bus_error_jmp) == 0) { catch_memory_errors = 1; sync(); - +#ifndef CONFIG_PPC_BOOK3S_64 if (cmd != 'i') { for (; nflush > 0; --nflush, adrs += L1_CACHE_BYTES) cflush((void *) adrs); @@ -1814,6 +1818,10 @@ static void cacheflush(void) for (; nflush > 0; --nflush, adrs += L1_CACHE_BYTES) cinval((void *) adrs); } +#else + for (; nflush > 0; --nflush, adrs += L1_CACHE_BYTES) + cflush((void *)adrs); +#endif sync(); /* wait a little while to see if we get a machine check */ __delay(200); base-commit: a87b93bdf800a4d7a42d95683624a4516e516b4f -- 2.24.1