[PATCH] powerpc: Fix booting P9 hash with CONFIG_PPC_RADIX_MMU=N

Michael Neuling mikey at neuling.org
Thu May 25 10:13:49 AEST 2017


On Wed, 2017-05-24 at 14:26 +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
> Michael Neuling <mikey at neuling.org> writes:
> 
> > Currently if you disable CONFIG_PPC_RADIX_MMU you'll crash on boot on
> > a P9. This is because we still set MMU_FTR_TYPE_RADIX via
> > ibm,pa-features and MMU_FTR_TYPE_RADIX is what's used for code patching
> > in much of the asm code (ie. slb_miss_realmode)
> > 
> > This patch fixes the problem by stopping MMU_FTR_TYPE_RADIX from being
> > set from ibm.pa-features.
> > 
> > We may eventually end up removing the CONFIG_PPC_RADIX_MMU option
> > completely but until then this fixes the issue.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey at neuling.org>
> > ---
> >  arch/powerpc/kernel/prom.c | 2 ++
> >  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> > 
> > diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom.c
> > index 40c4887c27..f830562974 100644
> > --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom.c
> > +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom.c
> > @@ -161,7 +161,9 @@ static struct ibm_pa_feature {
> >  	{ .pabyte = 0,  .pabit = 3, .cpu_features  = CPU_FTR_CTRL },
> >  	{ .pabyte = 0,  .pabit = 6, .cpu_features  = CPU_FTR_NOEXECUTE },
> >  	{ .pabyte = 1,  .pabit = 2, .mmu_features  = MMU_FTR_CI_LARGE_PAGE
> > },
> > +#ifdef CONFIG_PPC_RADIX_MMU
> >  	{ .pabyte = 40, .pabit = 0, .mmu_features  = MMU_FTR_TYPE_RADIX },
> > +#endif
> >  	{ .pabyte = 1,  .pabit = 1, .invert = 1, .cpu_features =
> > CPU_FTR_NODSISRALIGN },
> >  	{ .pabyte = 5,  .pabit = 0, .cpu_features  = CPU_FTR_REAL_LE,
> >  				    .cpu_user_ftrs = PPC_FEATURE_TRUE_LE },
> > -- 
> > 2.11.0
> 
> Instead can we do that feature removal in mmu_early_init_devtree. ie,
> something like

It looks like mmu_early_init_devtree() gets called after parsing ibm,pa_features
so that should work.

> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/init_64.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/init_64.c
> index 8f6f2a173e47..8f43f3827bac 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/mm/init_64.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/init_64.c
> @@ -394,7 +394,7 @@ void __init mmu_early_init_devtree(v
> oid)
>  {
>  	/* Disable radix mode based on kernel command line. */
>  	/* We don't yet have the machinery to do radix as a guest. */
> -	if (disable_radix || !(mfmsr() & MSR_HV))
> > +	if (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_PPC_RADIX_MMU) || disable_radix || !(mfmsr() & MSR_HV))

What tree is this patch against?  Linus' tree doesn't look like that.

Mikey


>  		cur_cpu_spec->mmu_features &= ~MMU_FTR_TYPE_RADIX;
>  
>  	/*
> 


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