[Qemu-devel] [PULL 03/17] ppc64: disable gen_pause() for linux-user mode

[David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>]

From: Laurent Vivier <laurent@vivier.eu>

While trying to install a fedora container with
"lxc-create -t fedora -- -I qemu-ppc64" the installation abort with
the following error:

qemu: fatal: Unknown exception 0x65537. Aborting

NIP 0000004000927924   LR 00000040009e325c CTR 0000004000927480 XER 0000000000000000 CPU#0
MSR 9000000102806000 HID0 0000000000000000  HF 9000000002806000 iidx 3 didx 3
TB 00248932 1069155773327487
GPR00 00000040009e325c 00000040007ff800 0000004000aba098 0000000000000000
GPR04 00000040007ff878 0000004000dcb588 0000004000dcb830 0000004000a7a098
GPR08 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 00000040007ff878 0000004000927960
GPR12 0000000022022448 0000004000e2aef0 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
GPR16 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000002 0000000000000001
GPR20 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000004000800699
GPR24 0000004000e13320 0000000000000000 0000004000ac9ad8 0000004000ac9ae0
GPR28 0000000000000001 00000000100210a0 0000000000000000 0000000000000038
CR 22022442  [ E  E  -  E  E  G  G  E  ]             RES ffffffffffffffff
FPR00 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
FPR04 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
FPR08 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
FPR12 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
FPR16 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
FPR20 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
FPR24 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
FPR28 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
FPSCR 0000000000000000
/usr/share/lxc/templates/lxc-fedora: line 487: 26661 Aborted                 (core dumped) chroot . yum -y --nogpgcheck --installroot /run/install install python rpm yum

I've bisected until the commit:

    commit b68e60e6f0d2865e961a800fb8db96a7fc6494c4
    Author: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
    Date:   Tue May 3 18:03:33 2016 +0200

        ppc: Get out of emulation on SMT "OR" ops

        Otherwise tight loops at smt_low for example, which OPAL does,
        eat so much CPU that we can't boot a kernel anymore. With that,
        I can boot 8 CPUs just fine with powernv.

        Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
        Reviewed-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
        Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>

We can fix that by preventing to send EXCP_HLT in the case of linux-user mode,
as the main loop doesn't know how to manage it.

Signed-off-by: Laurent Vivier <laurent@vivier.eu>
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
---
 target-ppc/translate.c | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/target-ppc/translate.c b/target-ppc/translate.c
index df4e0a3..72b67e4 100644
--- a/target-ppc/translate.c
+++ b/target-ppc/translate.c
@@ -1394,7 +1394,7 @@ GEN_LOGICAL2(nand, tcg_gen_nand_tl, 0x0E, PPC_INTEGER);
 /* nor & nor. */
 GEN_LOGICAL2(nor, tcg_gen_nor_tl, 0x03, PPC_INTEGER);
 
-#if defined(TARGET_PPC64)
+#if defined(TARGET_PPC64) && !defined(CONFIG_USER_ONLY)
 static void gen_pause(DisasContext *ctx)
 {
     TCGv_i32 t0 = tcg_const_i32(0);
@@ -1482,7 +1482,9 @@ static void gen_or(DisasContext *ctx)
             /* Pause us out of TCG otherwise spin loops with smt_low
              * eat too much CPU and the kernel hangs
              */
+#if !defined(CONFIG_USER_ONLY)
             gen_pause(ctx);
+#endif
         }
 #endif
     }
-- 
2.5.5