Re: [PATCH v2] s390x/tcg: Implement MONITOR CALL

[Richard Henderson]

On 9/18/20 1:51 AM, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> Recent upstream Linux uses the MONITOR CALL instruction for things like
> BUG_ON() and WARN_ON(). We currently inject an operation exception when
> we hit a MONITOR CALL instruction - which is wrong, as the instruction
> is not glued to specific CPU features.
> 
> Doing a simple WARN_ON_ONCE() currently results in a panic:
>   [   18.162801] illegal operation: 0001 ilc:2 [#1] SMP
>   [   18.162889] Modules linked in:
>   [...]
>   [   18.165476] Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception: panic_on_oops
> 
> With a proper implementation, we now get:
>   [   18.242754] ------------[ cut here ]------------
>   [   18.242855] WARNING: CPU: 7 PID: 1 at init/main.c:1534 [...]
>   [   18.242919] Modules linked in:
>   [...]
>   [   18.246262] ---[ end trace a420477d71dc97b4 ]---
>   [   18.259014] Freeing unused kernel memory: 4220K
> 
> Reported-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
> Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
> ---

Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>

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