[v2,RFC] pasemi: Fix boot failure on 4.7-rc1

Michael Ellerman mpe at ellerman.id.au
Mon Jul 4 15:51:19 AEST 2016


On Wed, 2016-29-06 at 20:06:28 UTC, Darren Stevens wrote:
> Commit:d6a9996e84ac4beb7713e9485f4563e100a9b03e (powerpc/mm:
>     vmalloc abstraction in preparation for radix) turned kernel memory
>     and IO addresses from #defined constants to variables initialised
>     at runtime.
>     
>     On PA6T systems the setup_arch machine call initialises the onboard
>     PCI-e root-ports, and uses pci_io_base to do this, which is now before
>     its value has been set resulting in a panic right after 'booting 
>     linux via __start()'
> 
>     Move the pci_io_base initialisation to the same place as vmalloc
>     ranges are set (hash__early_init_mmu()/radix__early_init_mmu())
>     
>     Reported-by: Christian Zigotzky <chzigotzky at xenosoft.de>
>     Signed-off-by: Darren Stevens <darren at stevens-zone.net>
> Reviewed-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar at linux.vnet.ibm.com>

Applied to powerpc fixes, thanks.

https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/bfa37087aa04e45f56c41142df

cheers


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