[PATCH] powerpc/85xx: Fix oops during MSI driver probe on MPC85xxMDS boards

Kumar Gala galak at kernel.crashing.org
Tue Jan 26 03:54:31 EST 2010


On Dec 15, 2009, at 4:58 PM, Anton Vorontsov wrote:

> MPC85xx chips report the wrong value in feature reporting register,
> and that causes the following oops:
> 
> Unable to handle kernel paging request for data at address 0x00000c00
> Faulting instruction address: 0xc0019294
> Oops: Kernel access of bad area, sig: 11 [#1]
> MPC8569 MDS
> Modules linked in:
> [...]
> NIP [c0019294] mpic_set_irq_type+0x2f0/0x368
> LR [c0019124] mpic_set_irq_type+0x180/0x368
> Call Trace:
> [ef851d60] [c0019124] mpic_set_irq_type+0x180/0x368 (unreliable)
> [ef851d90] [c007958c] __irq_set_trigger+0x44/0xd4
> [ef851db0] [c007b550] set_irq_type+0x40/0x7c
> [ef851dc0] [c0004a60] irq_create_of_mapping+0xb4/0x114
> [ef851df0] [c0004af0] irq_of_parse_and_map+0x30/0x40
> [ef851e20] [c0405678] fsl_of_msi_probe+0x1a0/0x328
> [ef851e60] [c02e6438] of_platform_device_probe+0x5c/0x84
> [...]
> 
> This is because mpic_alloc() assigns wrong values to
> mpic->isu_{size,shift,mask}, and things eventually break when
> _mpic_irq_read() is trying to use them.
> 
> This patch fixes the issue by enabling MPIC_BROKEN_FRR_NIRQS quirk.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <avorontsov at ru.mvista.com>
> ---
> arch/powerpc/platforms/85xx/mpc85xx_mds.c |    3 ++-
> 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

applied to merge for 2.6.33

- k


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