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

[Cédric Le Goater]

On 7/6/23 09:32, Nicholas Piggin wrote:
> 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.

I have been using the v2 series for a while :

  https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/qemu-ppc/list/?series=361456

without patch 4 and it looked good. Let's take v3 since this patch is
unchanged.

Thanks,

C.


> 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.