powerpc: crash with 3.16.0-rc2

[Cedric Le Goater]

Hi Suka,

On 06/26/2014 08:10 AM, Sukadev Bhattiprolu wrote:
> I got the following crash in Open Firmware, on two separate systems
> with recent mainline kernel (3.16.0-rc2). One was a P8 LPAR with no
> changes to kernel and another a Power7 LPAR with some kernel changes
> (24x7 perf counter patches). I will backout the patches and try but
> wanted to check if there is some config change I am missing.
> 
> I am also attaching the config file (which is based on a 3.14
> kernel that boots ok).
> 
> ---
> OF stdout device is: /vdevice/vty at 30000000
> Preparing to boot Linux version 3.16.0-rc2-unwind+ (root at saturn-lp2) (gcc version 4.8.2 20131212 (Red Hat 4.8.2-7) (GCC) ) #5 SMP Thu Jun 26 00:01:47 CDT 2014
> Detected machine type: 0000000000000101
> Max number of cores passed to firmware: 256 (NR_CPUS = 1024)
> Calling ibm,client-architecture-support... done
> command line: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinux-3.16.0-rc2-unwind root=UUID=017d60b7-9db9-4d91-9dc8-4e6f91b0ed40 ro biosdevname=0 vconsole.font=latarcyrheb-sun16
> memory layout at init:
>   memory_limit : 0000000000000000 (16 MB aligned)
>   alloc_bottom : 0000000005530000
>   alloc_top    : 0000000010000000
>   alloc_top_hi : 0000000010000000
>   rmo_top      : 0000000010000000
>   ram_top      : 0000000010000000
> instantiating rtas at 0x000000000ee90000... done
> Querying for OPAL presence... not there.

A patch from Michael Ellerman was just merged : 

	powerpc/powernv: Remove OPAL v1 takeover

I think it fixes the problem you are seeing.

Cheers,

C. 


> DEFAULT CATCH!, exception-handler=fff00700 
> at   %SRR0: 0000000004133064   %SRR1: 8000000000081002 
> Open Firmware exception handler entered from non-OF code
> 
> Client's Fix Pt Regs:
>  00 0000000004133030 0000000004133018 00000000047b1b28 0000000000000002
>  04 0000000028005024 00000000047b1b28 0000000000001002 0000000004132f18
>  08 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000004132f18 0000000000001002
>  0c a000000000000001 0000000000000000 0000000001a3fd20 000000000401bb70
>  10 000000000401c030 000000000401bd70 fffffffffffffffd 0000000001a3fd20
>  14 0000000001b49080 000000000ee90000 0000000001170000 000000000ee90000
>  18 000000000401c510 0000000003690000 000000000401bb28 0000000004193da0
>  1c 0000000001a3fd60 794927e391410070 e87f0000408204cc 3cc2ff8b38c629d8
> Special Regs:
>     %IV: 00000700     %CR: 28005022    %XER: 00000000  %DSISR: 42000000 
>   %SRR0: 0000000004133064   %SRR1: 8000000000081002 
>     %LR: 0000000004133030    %CTR: 0000000000000000 
>    %DAR: 01a3fcf00020b4ac 
> Virtual PID = 0 
>  ok
> 
> 
> 
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