On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 10:58:59AM +0530, Nikunj A Dadhania wrote: > David Gibson <da...@gibson.dropbear.id.au> writes: > > > On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 10:45:30PM +0530, Aravinda Prasad wrote: > >> Receive updates from SLOF about the updated rtas-base. > >> A separate patch for SLOF [1] adds functionality to invoke > >> a private HCALL whenever OS issues instantiate-rtas with > >> a new rtas-base. > >> > >> This is required as QEMU needs to know the updated rtas-base > >> as it allocates error reporting structure in RTAS space upon > >> a machine check exception. > >> > >> [1] https://lists.ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2014-August/120386.html > >> > >> Signed-off-by: Aravinda Prasad <aravi...@linux.vnet.ibm.com> > > > > Reviewed-by: David Gibson <da...@gibson.dropbear.id.au> > > > > With the obvious proviso that the SLOF update needs to be merged (both > > to SLOF and to qemu) first. > > The patch is already part of SLOF tree and is there in qemu: > > commit f9a60de30492863811c2cdf6f28988c9e8a2c3d9 > Author: Nikunj A. Dadhania <nik...@linux.vnet.ibm.com> > Date: Mon Aug 25 18:30:10 2014 +0530 > > Add private HCALL to inform updated RTAS base and entry > > This patch adds a private HCALL to inform qemu the updated > rtas-base and rtas-entry address when OS invokes the call > "instantiate-rtas". This is required as qemu allocates the > error reporting structure in RTAS space upon a machine check > exception and hence needs to know the updated RTAS. > > Enhancements to qemu to handle the private HCALL, prepare > error log and invoke machine check notification routine > are in a separate patch. > > Signed-off-by: Nikunj A. Dadhania <nik...@linux.vnet.ibm.com> > Signed-off-by: Aravinda Prasad <aravi...@linux.vnet.ibm.com> > Signed-off-by: Nikunj A Dadhania <nik...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Ah, ok. Thanks. -- David Gibson | I'll have my music baroque, and my code david AT gibson.dropbear.id.au | minimalist, thank you. NOT _the_ _other_ | _way_ _around_! http://www.ozlabs.org/~dgibson
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