powerpc/pseries: Add POWER8NVL support to ibm,client-architecture-support call
commit39d615c344e1fd7cb3d636fa116c2abc658c5435
authorThomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Tue, 31 May 2016 05:51:17 +0000 (31 07:51 +0200)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Fri, 24 Jun 2016 17:22:03 +0000 (24 10:22 -0700)
tree751f53e811878cc2650271d591f2aa652007391a
parent59f286ba1ae015cd7f303cacd908723a2b137591
powerpc/pseries: Add POWER8NVL support to ibm,client-architecture-support call

commit 7cc851039d643a2ee7df4d18177150f2c3a484f5 upstream.

If we do not provide the PVR for POWER8NVL, a guest on this system
currently ends up in PowerISA 2.06 compatibility mode on KVM, since QEMU
does not provide a generic PowerISA 2.07 mode yet. So some new
instructions from POWER8 (like "mtvsrd") get disabled for the guest,
resulting in crashes when using code compiled explicitly for
POWER8 (e.g. with the "-mcpu=power8" option of GCC).

Fixes: ddee09c099c3 ("powerpc: Add PVR for POWER8NVL processor")
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
arch/powerpc/kernel/prom_init.c