[PATCH] purgatory/arch/ppc64: Reset primary cpu endian to big-endian

Anton Blanchard anton at samba.org
Wed Sep 9 04:07:39 PDT 2015


Hi Horms,

> > Older big-endian ppc64 kernels don't include the FIXUP_ENDIAN check,
> > meaning if we kexec from a little-endian kernel the target kernel
> > will fail to boot.
> > Returning to big-endian before we enter the target kernel ensures
> > that the target kernel can boot whether or not it includes
> > FIXUP_ENDIAN.
> > 
> > This mirrors commit 150b14e7 in kexec-lite.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Samuel Mendoza-Jonas <sam.mj at au1.ibm.com>
> 
> I would value a review from one of the PPC folks.

Looks good to me. You can add:

Acked-by: Anton Blanchard <anton at samba.org>

Anton

> > ---
> >  purgatory/arch/ppc64/v2wrap.S | 12 +++++++++---
> >  1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/purgatory/arch/ppc64/v2wrap.S
> > b/purgatory/arch/ppc64/v2wrap.S index dc5034f..179ade9 100644
> > --- a/purgatory/arch/ppc64/v2wrap.S
> > +++ b/purgatory/arch/ppc64/v2wrap.S
> > @@ -114,10 +114,16 @@ master:
> >  	LOADADDR(6,run_at_load) # the load flag
> >  	lwz	7,0(6)		# possibly patched by
> > kexec-elf-ppc64 stw	7,0x5c(4)	# and patch it into the
> > kernel
> > -	li	5,0		# r5 will be 0 for kernel
> > -	mtctr	4		# prepare branch too
> >  	mr      3,16            # restore dt address
> >  
> > +	mtsrr0	4		# prepare branch to
> > +
> > +	mfmsr	5
> > +	clrrdi	5,5,1		# clear MSR_LE
> > +	mtsrr1	5
> > +
> > +	li	5,0		# r5 will be 0 for kernel
> > +
> >  				# skip cache flush, do we care?
> >  
> > -	bctr			# start kernel
> > +	rfid			# update MSR and start kernel
> > -- 
> > 2.5.0
> > 
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