On Thu, 20 Feb 2014, Dmitry V. Levin wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 03:32:43PM -0600, James Yang wrote:
> > * syscall.c: Fix 64-bit process detection on embedded powerpc
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: James Yang <[email protected]>
> > ---
> >  syscall.c |    5 +++--
> >  1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/syscall.c b/syscall.c
> > index 3477dcd..8d47e7e 100644
> > --- a/syscall.c
> > +++ b/syscall.c
> > @@ -1222,8 +1222,9 @@ get_scno(struct tcb *tcp)
> >     int currpers;
> >  
> >     /* Check for 64/32 bit mode. */
> > -   /* SF is bit 0 of MSR */
> > -   if ((ppc_regs.msr >> 63) & 1)
> > +   /* SF is bit 0 of MSR (a 64-bit register in Server) */
> > +   /* CM is bit 0 of MSR (a 32-bit register in Embedded) */
> > +   if (((ppc_regs.msr >> 63) & 1) || ((ppc_regs.msr >> 31) & 1))
> >             currpers = 0;
> >     else
> >             currpers = 1;
> 
> In case of 64-bit MSR, that would be a test for 32th bit.
> I'm not quite familiar with ppc64, is there any risk for a false positive
> in this case?

When tested on a POWER7 running Linux, MSR bit 32 is clear.  So 
empircally, it is not in use.

It is documented as part of a reserved field according to Power ISA 
Book III-S so it should read as 0 unless there's an implementation- 
specific use of the bit.  No documentation I have found describes the 
use of it as other than reserved.


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