ppc: Do not take exceptions on unknown SPRs in privileged mode

The architecture specifies that mtspr/mfspr on an unknown SPR number
should act as a nop in privileged mode.

I haven't removed the warning however as it can be useful for
diagnosing.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>

diff --git a/target-ppc/translate.c b/target-ppc/translate.c
index 2ad4f4abf70998bfb60682f6bd6097f498789347..b6894751e8df24018ba8e65f39099fd23a8684cd 100644 (file)
--- a/target-ppc/translate.c
+++ b/target-ppc/translate.c
@@ -4351,7 +4351,10 @@ static inline void gen_op_mfspr(DisasContext *ctx)
             qemu_log("Trying to read invalid spr %d (0x%03x) at "
                      TARGET_FMT_lx "\n", sprn, sprn, ctx->nip - 4);
         }
-        gen_inval_exception(ctx, POWERPC_EXCP_INVAL_SPR);
+        /* Only generate an exception in user space, otherwise this is a nop */
+        if (ctx->pr) {
+            gen_inval_exception(ctx, POWERPC_EXCP_INVAL_SPR);
+        }
     }
 }
 
@@ -4503,7 +4506,11 @@ static void gen_mtspr(DisasContext *ctx)
         }
         fprintf(stderr, "Trying to write invalid spr %d (0x%03x) at "
                 TARGET_FMT_lx "\n", sprn, sprn, ctx->nip - 4);
-        gen_inval_exception(ctx, POWERPC_EXCP_INVAL_SPR);
+
+        /* Only generate an exception in user space, otherwise this is a nop */
+        if (ctx->pr) {
+            gen_inval_exception(ctx, POWERPC_EXCP_INVAL_SPR);
+        }
     }
 }