Thread (14 messages) 14 messages, 5 authors, 2018-10-13

Re: Looking for architecture papers

From: Raz <hidden>
Date: 2018-10-06 09:22:25

Hey
How does HVSC works ?
I looked in the code and LoPAR documentation. It looks like there is
vector called
system_call_pSeries ( at 0xc00 ) that is supposed to be called when we
invoke HVSC from kernel
mode.
Now, I wrote a NULL call HSVC and patched the exceptions-64s.S to
return RFID immediately.
This does not work.
Would you be so kind to explain how HVSC works ?
thank you








On Thu, Oct 4, 2018 at 1:16 PM Gabriel Paubert [off-list ref] wrote:
On Thu, Oct 04, 2018 at 10:41:13AM +0300, Raz wrote:
quoted
Frankly, the more I read the more perplexed I get. For example,
according to BOOK III-S, chapter 3,
the MSR bits are differ from the ones described in
arch/powerpc/include/asm/reg.h.
Bit zero, is LE, but in the book it is 64-bit mode.
Just a problem of bit order definitions: IBM hardware definitions use
big-endian bit ordering, where bit 0 is the most significant bit.
quoted
Would someone be kind to explain what I do not understand?

Thank you
        Gabriel
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