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authorAnton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>2013-11-20 22:14:59 +1100
committerBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>2013-11-21 09:19:16 +1100
commite844b1eeae42dc93bf13e67812a95ee7b58be8c7 (patch)
tree7c36d37d883ed5ec6b386277c38e20d9485fdaca /arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/lpar.c
parentb91da2d4ce896c324bdbf1a078dbbe2db9a35ef1 (diff)
downloadlinux-e844b1eeae42dc93bf13e67812a95ee7b58be8c7.tar.gz
pseries: Add H_SET_MODE to change exception endianness
On little endian builds call H_SET_MODE so exceptions have the correct endianness. We need to reset the endian during kexec so do that in the MMU hashtable clear callback. Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/lpar.c')
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diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/lpar.c b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/lpar.c
index 356bc75ca74f6..4fca3def9db95 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/lpar.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/lpar.c
@@ -245,6 +245,23 @@ static void pSeries_lpar_hptab_clear(void)
&(ptes[j].pteh), &(ptes[j].ptel));
}
}
+
+#ifdef __LITTLE_ENDIAN__
+ /* Reset exceptions to big endian */
+ if (firmware_has_feature(FW_FEATURE_SET_MODE)) {
+ long rc;
+
+ rc = pseries_big_endian_exceptions();
+ /*
+ * At this point it is unlikely panic() will get anything
+ * out to the user, but at least this will stop us from
+ * continuing on further and creating an even more
+ * difficult to debug situation.
+ */
+ if (rc)
+ panic("Could not enable big endian exceptions");
+ }
+#endif
}
/*