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 youGabriel