3.0-rc1: powerpc hangs at Kernel virtual memory layout

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt]

On Wed, 2011-06-01 at 17:16 -0700, Christian Kujau wrote:
> On Tue, 31 May 2011 at 16:50, Christian Kujau wrote:
> > trying to boot 3.0-rc1 on powerpc32 only progresses until:
> > 
> >   > Kernel virtual memory layout:
> >   >   * 0xfffcf000..0xfffff000  : fixmap
> 
> After hours (and hours!) of git-bisecting, it said:
> 
> -----------------------
> ccc7c28af205888798b51b6cbc0b557ac1170a49 is the first bad commit
> commit ccc7c28af205888798b51b6cbc0b557ac1170a49
> Author: Rafał Miłecki <zajec5 at gmail.com>
> Date:   Fri Apr 1 13:26:52 2011 +0200
> 
>     ssb: pci: implement serdes workaround
>     
>     Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <zajec5 at gmail.com>
>     Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville at tuxdriver.com>
> -----------------------

Ok, thanks a lot, It looks rather trivial actually: That new workaround
is PCIe specific but is called unconditionally, and will do bad things
non-PCIe implementations.

John, care to send the patch below to Linus ASAP ? I could reproduce and
verify it fixes it. Thanks !

ssb: pci: Don't call PCIe specific workarounds on PCI cores

Otherwise it can/will crash....

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh at kernel.crashing.org>
---

diff --git a/drivers/ssb/driver_pcicore.c b/drivers/ssb/driver_pcicore.c
index 82feb34..eddf1b9 100644
--- a/drivers/ssb/driver_pcicore.c
+++ b/drivers/ssb/driver_pcicore.c
@@ -540,7 +540,8 @@ void ssb_pcicore_init(struct ssb_pcicore *pc)
 		ssb_pcicore_init_clientmode(pc);
 
 	/* Additional always once-executed workarounds */
-	ssb_pcicore_serdes_workaround(pc);
+	if (dev->id.coreid == SSB_DEV_PCIE)
+		ssb_pcicore_serdes_workaround(pc);
 	/* TODO: ASPM */
 	/* TODO: Clock Request Update */
 }