Re: [Qemu-ppc] [PATCH 4/5] ppc: Improve PCR bit selection in ppc_set_compat()

[David Gibson]

On Tue, Jun 07, 2016 at 05:39:39PM +0200, Thomas Huth wrote:
> When using an olderr PowerISA level, all the upper compatibility
> bits have to be enabled, too. For example when we want to run
> something in PowerISA 2.05 compatibility mode on POWER8, the bit
> for 2.06 has to be set beside the bit for 2.05.
> Additionally, to make sure that we do not set bits that are not
> supported by the host, we apply a mask with the known-to-be-good
> bits here, too.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <address@hidden>

This one confused me a bit until I realised that, roughly speaking,
bits in the PCR turn features off, rather than turning features on.
Does that sound correct?

> ---
>  target-ppc/translate_init.c | 13 +++++++++----
>  1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/target-ppc/translate_init.c b/target-ppc/translate_init.c
> index fa09183..ee2bc14 100644
> --- a/target-ppc/translate_init.c
> +++ b/target-ppc/translate_init.c
> @@ -9519,24 +9519,29 @@ void ppc_set_compat(PowerPCCPU *cpu, uint32_t 
> cpu_version, Error **errp)
>  {
>      int ret = 0;
>      CPUPPCState *env = &cpu->env;
> +    PowerPCCPUClass *host_pcc;
>  
>      cpu->cpu_version = cpu_version;
>  
>      switch (cpu_version) {
>      case CPU_POWERPC_LOGICAL_2_05:
> -        env->spr[SPR_PCR] = PCR_COMPAT_2_05;
> +        env->spr[SPR_PCR] = PCR_TM_DIS | PCR_VSX_DIS | PCR_COMPAT_2_07 |
> +                            PCR_COMPAT_2_06 | PCR_COMPAT_2_05;
>          break;
>      case CPU_POWERPC_LOGICAL_2_06:
> -        env->spr[SPR_PCR] = PCR_COMPAT_2_06;
> -        break;
>      case CPU_POWERPC_LOGICAL_2_06_PLUS:
> -        env->spr[SPR_PCR] = PCR_COMPAT_2_06;
> +        env->spr[SPR_PCR] = PCR_TM_DIS | PCR_COMPAT_2_07 | PCR_COMPAT_2_06;
>          break;
>      default:
>          env->spr[SPR_PCR] = 0;
>          break;
>      }
>  
> +    host_pcc = kvm_ppc_get_host_cpu_class();
> +    if (host_pcc) {
> +        env->spr[SPR_PCR] &= host_pcc->pcr_mask;
> +    }
> +
>      if (kvm_enabled()) {
>          ret = kvmppc_set_compat(cpu, cpu->cpu_version);
>          if (ret < 0) {

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