[PATCH] powerpc: Avoid panic during boot due to divide by zero in init_cache_info()
Benjamin Herrenschmidt
benh at au1.ibm.com
Mon Mar 6 11:20:26 AEDT 2017
On Sun, 2017-03-05 at 18:10 -0600, Segher Boessenkool wrote:
> You cannot really have something at address 0, the way NULL pointers
> are represented in GCC. 0 in firmware, so *fun*, especially before
> the
> CFAR was invented. "Something jumped to 0, CTR is 0 so it's probably
> a BCTR, but which one of the 6000?"
>
> What do you have at 0? Not anything you need often I hope?
I think it was some kind of boot flag. I've had cases also of
copying the 0..0x100 region over with the kexec gunk etc...
Ben.
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