On Fri, 6 Apr 2018 11:28:31 +0200
Thomas Huth <th...@redhat.com> wrote:
> On 05.04.2018 17:07, Viktor Mihajlovski wrote:
> > IPL over a virtio-scsi device requires special handling not
> > available in the real architecture. For this purpose the IPL
> > type 0xFF has been chosen as means of communication between
> > QEMU and the pc-bios. However, a guest OS could be confused
> > by seeing an unknown IPL type.
> >
> > This change sets the IPL parameter type to 0x02 (CCW) to prevent
> > this. Pre-existing Linux has looked up the IPL parameters only in
> > the case of FCP IPL. This means that the behavior should stay
> > the same even if Linux checks for the IPL type unconditionally.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Viktor Mihajlovski <mihaj...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> > ---
> > pc-bios/s390-ccw/bootmap.c | 7 +++++++
> > pc-bios/s390-ccw/iplb.h | 15 +++++++++++++--
> > 2 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/pc-bios/s390-ccw/bootmap.c b/pc-bios/s390-ccw/bootmap.c
> > index fc2a9fe..9287b7a 100644
> > --- a/pc-bios/s390-ccw/bootmap.c
> > +++ b/pc-bios/s390-ccw/bootmap.c
> > @@ -70,6 +70,13 @@ static void jump_to_IPL_code(uint64_t address)
> > {
> > /* store the subsystem information _after_ the bootmap was loaded */
> > write_subsystem_identification();
> > +
> > + /* prevent unknown IPL types in the guest */
> > + if (iplb.pbt == S390_IPL_TYPE_QEMU_SCSI) {
> > + iplb.pbt = S390_IPL_TYPE_CCW;
> > + set_iplb(&iplb);
> > + }
> > +
> > /*
> > * The IPL PSW is at address 0. We also must not overwrite the
> > * content of non-BIOS memory after we loaded the guest, so we
> > diff --git a/pc-bios/s390-ccw/iplb.h b/pc-bios/s390-ccw/iplb.h
> > index 7dfce4f..5357a36 100644
> > --- a/pc-bios/s390-ccw/iplb.h
> > +++ b/pc-bios/s390-ccw/iplb.h
> > @@ -97,16 +97,27 @@ extern QemuIplParameters qipl;
> > #define S390_IPL_TYPE_CCW 0x02
> > #define S390_IPL_TYPE_QEMU_SCSI 0xff
> >
> > -static inline bool store_iplb(IplParameterBlock *iplb)
> > +static inline bool manage_iplb(IplParameterBlock *iplb, bool store)
> > {
> > register unsigned long addr asm("0") = (unsigned long) iplb;
> > register unsigned long rc asm("1") = 0;
> >
> > asm volatile ("diag %0,%2,0x308\n"
> > : "+d" (addr), "+d" (rc)
> > - : "d" (6)
> > + : "d" (store ? 6 : 5)
> > : "memory", "cc");
>
> I can't find a proper public specification for diag 308, so no clue how
> to review this properly. Christian, could you please have a look?
It does match the diag 308 store/load implementation in
target/s390x/diag.c... but a pointer to an official spec (if public)
would still be appreciated :)
