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

Christian Zigotzky chzigotzky at xenosoft.de
Mon Jul 4 16:58:08 AEST 2016


Many thanks!

- Christian

On 04 July 2016 at 07:51 AM, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> 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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