Re: [PATCH v3] target/ppc: Machine check on invalid real address access on POWER9/10

[Nicholas Piggin]

On Mon Jul 3, 2023 at 10:03 PM AEST, Nicholas Piggin wrote:
> ppc currently silently accepts invalid real address access. Catch
> these and turn them into machine checks on POWER9/10 machines.

Would there be any objections to merging this and the checkstop patch?
We could disable this one before release if it turns out to cause
breakage.

I don't think it needs to rebase, and passes clang build and make check
here. Just messed up the separator on the changelog of the checkstop
patch.

Thanks,
Nick


>
> Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
> ---
> Since v1:
> - Only implement this for POWER9/10. Seems like previous IBM processors
>   may not catch this, trying to get info.
>
> Since v2:
> - Split out from larger series since it is independent.