PS3 platform is broken on Linux 3.7.0

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt]

On Fri, 2012-12-14 at 16:35 +0400, Phileas Fogg wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I wanted to bring to your attention the fact that the PS3 platform is broken on Linux 3.7.0.
> 
> i'm not able to boot Linux 3.7.0 on my PS3 slim. Linux 3.6.10 boots just fine but not 3.7.0
> When i try to boot Linux 3.7.0 then my PS3  shuts down.
> 
> So i cloned the Linux powerpc GIT repository and tried to find out which commits broke the PS3 platform.
> After some time I tracked it down to 2 commits:

Aneesh, do you have any idea what might be going on there ? Can you look
at the PS3 hash code ? It's a bit different from the rest, you might
have missed an update or two...

Michael, same deal with PACA...

Cheers,
Ben.

> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> commit 407821a34fce89b4f0b031dbab5cec7d059f46bc
> Author: Michael Ellerman <michael at ellerman.id.au>
> Date:   Fri Sep 7 15:31:44 2012 +0000
> 
>     powerpc: Initialise paca.data_offset with poison
>     
>     It's possible for the cpu_possible_mask to change between the time we
>     initialise the pacas and the time we setup per_cpu areas.
>     
>     Obviously impossible cpus shouldn't ever be running, but stranger things
>     have happened. So be paranoid and initialise data_offset with a poison
>     value in case we don't set it up later.
>     
>     Based on a patch from Anton Blanchard.
>     
>     Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael at ellerman.id.au>
>     Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh at kernel.crashing.org>
> 
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> commit 048ee0993ec8360abb0b51bdf8f8721e9ed62ec4
> Author: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Date:   Mon Sep 10 02:52:55 2012 +0000
> 
>     powerpc/mm: Add 64TB support
>     
>     Increase max addressable range to 64TB. This is not tested on
>     real hardware yet.
>     
>     Reviewed-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus at samba.org>
>     Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
>     Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh at kernel.crashing.org>
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> The first commit causes my PS3 to shut down. If i revert it then i'm able to boot Linux 3.7.0 and even see some boot messages
> on my screen. But then it hangs. The second commit is the reason for the hang as i figured it out.
> 
> I reverted both commits in current Linux 3.7.0 and was able to boot Linux 3.7.0 on my PS3 slim successfully.
> 
> Regards
> 
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