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    hppa: Add support for an emulated TOC/NMI button. · 4a4554c6
    Helge Deller authored
    
    
    Almost all PA-RISC machines have either a button that is labeled with 'TOC' or
    a BMC/GSP function to trigger a TOC.  TOC is a non-maskable interrupt that is
    sent to the processor.  This can be used for diagnostic purposes like obtaining
    a stack trace/register dump or to enter KDB/KGDB in Linux.
    
    This patch adds support for such an emulated TOC button.
    
    It wires up the qemu monitor "nmi" command to trigger a TOC.  For that it
    provides the hppa_nmi function which is assigned to the nmi_monitor_handler
    function pointer.  When called it raises the EXCP_TOC hardware interrupt in the
    hppa_cpu_do_interrupt() function.  The interrupt function then calls the
    architecturally defined TOC function in SeaBIOS-hppa firmware (at fixed address
    0xf0000000).
    
    According to the PA-RISC PDC specification, the SeaBIOS firmware then writes
    the CPU registers into PIM (processor internal memmory) for later analysis.  In
    order to write all registers it needs to know the contents of the CPU "shadow
    registers" and the IASQ- and IAOQ-back values. The IAOQ/IASQ values are
    provided by qemu in shadow registers when entering the SeaBIOS TOC function.
    This patch adds a new aritificial opcode "getshadowregs" (0xfffdead2) which
    restores the original values of the shadow registers. With this opcode SeaBIOS
    can store those registers as well into PIM before calling an OS-provided TOC
    handler.
    
    To trigger a TOC, switch to the qemu monitor with Ctrl-A C, and type in the
    command "nmi".  After the TOC started the OS-debugger, exit the qemu monitor
    with Ctrl-A C.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarHelge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarRichard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
    4a4554c6
    hppa: Add support for an emulated TOC/NMI button.
    Helge Deller authored
    
    
    Almost all PA-RISC machines have either a button that is labeled with 'TOC' or
    a BMC/GSP function to trigger a TOC.  TOC is a non-maskable interrupt that is
    sent to the processor.  This can be used for diagnostic purposes like obtaining
    a stack trace/register dump or to enter KDB/KGDB in Linux.
    
    This patch adds support for such an emulated TOC button.
    
    It wires up the qemu monitor "nmi" command to trigger a TOC.  For that it
    provides the hppa_nmi function which is assigned to the nmi_monitor_handler
    function pointer.  When called it raises the EXCP_TOC hardware interrupt in the
    hppa_cpu_do_interrupt() function.  The interrupt function then calls the
    architecturally defined TOC function in SeaBIOS-hppa firmware (at fixed address
    0xf0000000).
    
    According to the PA-RISC PDC specification, the SeaBIOS firmware then writes
    the CPU registers into PIM (processor internal memmory) for later analysis.  In
    order to write all registers it needs to know the contents of the CPU "shadow
    registers" and the IASQ- and IAOQ-back values. The IAOQ/IASQ values are
    provided by qemu in shadow registers when entering the SeaBIOS TOC function.
    This patch adds a new aritificial opcode "getshadowregs" (0xfffdead2) which
    restores the original values of the shadow registers. With this opcode SeaBIOS
    can store those registers as well into PIM before calling an OS-provided TOC
    handler.
    
    To trigger a TOC, switch to the qemu monitor with Ctrl-A C, and type in the
    command "nmi".  After the TOC started the OS-debugger, exit the qemu monitor
    with Ctrl-A C.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarHelge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarRichard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
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