PS3: Strange issue with kexec and FreeBSD loader

[Phileas Fogg]

Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Thu, 2013-02-21 at 22:44 +0100, Phileas Fogg wrote:
>> Stripped OpenWRT image:
>> ------------------------
>>
>> c00000000001a474:       48 00 00 05     bl      0xc00000000001a478
>> c00000000001a478:       7c a8 02 a6     mflr    r5
>> c00000000001a47c:       38 a5 00 1c     addi    r5,r5,28
>> c00000000001a480:       7c 21 0b 78     mr      r1,r1
>> c00000000001a484:       80 85 00 00     lwz     r4,0(r5)
>> c00000000001a488:       2c 04 00 00     cmpwi   r4,0
>> c00000000001a48c:       40 82 00 62     bnea-   0x60
>> c00000000001a490:       4b ff ff f0     b       0xc00000000001a480
>> c00000000001a494:       00 00 00 00     .long 0x0
>> c00000000001a498:       a0 6d 00 48     lhz     r3,72(r13)
>> c00000000001a49c:       48 00 00 11     bl      0xc00000000001a4ac
>
>
> Smell like a bad stack pointer to me...
>
> One thing I noticed is that kexec doesn't seem to hard disable
> interrupts, which is ... fishy at best. It should do that
> before it switches stacks around. Dunno if that's the cause
> of the problem but it might be worth adding a hard_irq_disable()
> after all the local_irq_disable(), making sure we are hard
> disabled before going into asm.
>
> Cheers,
> Ben.
>
>
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Hi,

i wanted to let you know that i tested your advice. And let me say, it's was a 
damn good advice :) I can boot FreeBSD loader on Linux 3.8 now, no SHA256 
checksum failures. And no panics with FreeBSD LiveCD anymore too.

I just inserted hard_irq_disable() after each local_irq_disable() in 
arch/powerpc/kernel/machine_kexec_64.c

Thanks

regards