VLC doesn't play videos anymore since the PowerPC fixes 5.1-3

[Christophe Leroy]

On 04/04/2019 08:44 AM, Christian Zigotzky wrote:
> On 04 April 2019 at 06:00AM, Christophe Leroy wrote:
>>
>>
>> Le 04/04/2019 à 02:58, Christian Zigotzky a écrit :
>>> On 03 April 2019 at 07:05AM, Christophe Leroy wrote:
>>>> Le 03/04/2019 à 05:52, Christian Zigotzky a écrit :
>>>>> Please test VLC with the RC3 of kernel 5.1.
>>>>>
>>>>> The removing of the PowerPC fixes 5.1-3 has solved the VLC issue. 
>>>>> Another user has already confirmed that [1]. This isn’t an April 
>>>>> Fool‘s. ;-)
>>>>
>>>> Could you bisect to identify the guilty commit ?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks
>>>> Christophe
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks
>>>>>
>>>>> [1] 
>>>>> http://forum.hyperion-entertainment.com/viewtopic.php?f=58&t=4256&start=20#p47561 
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>> Hello Christophe,
>>>
>>> I have found the problematic patch. The following patch from the 
>>> PowerPC fixes 5.1-3 is responsible for the VLC issue.
>>
>> That change is part of the following commit:
>>
>> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?h=v5.1-rc2&id=b5b4453e7912f056da1ca7572574cada32ecb60c 
>>
>>
>> Just changing back the type of wtom_clock_sec to 32 bits without 
>> changing back the loading instruction is likely to give unexpected 
>> results on PPC64.
>>
>> Are you using 32 bits or 64 bits powerpc ?
>>
>> Christophe
> 64-bit kernel + 32-bit userland for example:
> 
> - ubuntu MATE 16.04.6 LTS 32-bit PowerPC with a 64-bit kernel
> - Fienix (Debian Sid) 32-bit PowerPC with a 64-bit kernel
> - MATE PowerPC Remix (ubuntu MATE 17.04) 32-bit PowerPC with a 64-bit 
> kernel

Ok, thanks. Can you please try below change:

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso32/gettimeofday.S 
b/arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso32/gettimeofday.S
index 1e0bc5955a40..afd516b572f8 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso32/gettimeofday.S
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso32/gettimeofday.S
@@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ V_FUNCTION_BEGIN(__kernel_clock_gettime)
  	 * can be used, r7 contains NSEC_PER_SEC.
  	 */

-	lwz	r5,WTOM_CLOCK_SEC(r9)
+	lwz	r5,(WTOM_CLOCK_SEC+LOPART)(r9)
  	lwz	r6,WTOM_CLOCK_NSEC(r9)

  	/* We now have our offset in r5,r6. We create a fake dependency


Christophe

> 
> -- Christian
>>
>>
>>>
>>> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/vdso_datapage.h 
>>> b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/vdso_datapage.h
>>> index 1afe90ade595..bbc06bd72b1f 100644
>>> --- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/vdso_datapage.h
>>> +++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/vdso_datapage.h
>>> @@ -82,10 +82,10 @@ struct vdso_data {
>>>      __u32 icache_block_size;      /* L1 i-cache block size */
>>>      __u32 dcache_log_block_size;      /* L1 d-cache log block size */
>>>      __u32 icache_log_block_size;      /* L1 i-cache log block size */
>>> -   __s32 wtom_clock_sec;         /* Wall to monotonic clock */
>>> -   __s32 wtom_clock_nsec;
>>> -   struct timespec stamp_xtime;   /* xtime as at tb_orig_stamp */
>>> -   __u32 stamp_sec_fraction;   /* fractional seconds of stamp_xtime */
>>> +   __u32 stamp_sec_fraction;      /* fractional seconds of 
>>> stamp_xtime */
>>> +   __s32 wtom_clock_nsec;         /* Wall to monotonic clock nsec */
>>> +   __s64 wtom_clock_sec;         /* Wall to monotonic clock sec */
>>> +   struct timespec stamp_xtime;      /* xtime as at tb_orig_stamp */
>>>         __u32 syscall_map_64[SYSCALL_MAP_SIZE]; /* map of syscalls */
>>>         __u32 syscall_map_32[SYSCALL_MAP_SIZE]; /* map of syscalls */
>>>   };
>>>
>>> -----
>>>
>>> Link: 
>>> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/diff/arch/powerpc/include/asm/vdso_datapage.h?h=v5.1-rc2&id=a5ed1e96cafde5ba48638f486bfca0685dc6ddc9 
>>>
>>>
>>> I created a patch for solving the VLC issue today.
>>>
>>> vdso_datapage_vlc.patch:
>>>
>>> diff -rupN a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/vdso_datapage.h 
>>> b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/vdso_datapage.h
>>> --- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/vdso_datapage.h  2019-04-03 
>>> 22:56:44.560645936 +0200
>>> +++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/vdso_datapage.h  2019-04-04 
>>> 02:20:09.479361827 +0200
>>> @@ -82,10 +82,10 @@ struct vdso_data {
>>>          __u32 icache_block_size;                /* L1 i-cache block 
>>> size     */
>>>          __u32 dcache_log_block_size;            /* L1 d-cache log 
>>> block size */
>>>          __u32 icache_log_block_size;            /* L1 i-cache log 
>>> block size */
>>> -       __u32 stamp_sec_fraction;               /* fractional seconds 
>>> of stamp_xtime */
>>> -       __s32 wtom_clock_nsec;                  /* Wall to monotonic 
>>> clock nsec */
>>> -       __s64 wtom_clock_sec;                   /* Wall to monotonic 
>>> clock sec */
>>> -       struct timespec stamp_xtime;            /* xtime as at 
>>> tb_orig_stamp */
>>> +       __s32 wtom_clock_sec;                   /* Wall to monotonic 
>>> clock */
>>> +       __s32 wtom_clock_nsec;
>>> +       struct timespec stamp_xtime;    /* xtime as at tb_orig_stamp */
>>> +       __u32 stamp_sec_fraction;       /* fractional seconds of 
>>> stamp_xtime */
>>>          __u32 syscall_map_64[SYSCALL_MAP_SIZE]; /* map of syscalls */
>>>          __u32 syscall_map_32[SYSCALL_MAP_SIZE]; /* map of syscalls */
>>>   };
>>>
>>> -----
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Christian
>>