[PATCH] powerpc/64s: Make boot look nice(r)

Thiago Jung Bauermann bauerman at linux.ibm.com
Fri May 17 13:18:26 AEST 2019


Hello,

Nicholas Piggin <npiggin at gmail.com> writes:

> Christophe Leroy's on May 16, 2019 2:47 pm:
>> 
>> 
>> Le 16/05/2019 à 04:04, Nicholas Piggin a écrit:
>>> Radix boot looks like this:
>>> 
>>>   -----------------------------------------------------
>>>   phys_mem_size     = 0x200000000
>>>   dcache_bsize      = 0x80
>>>   icache_bsize      = 0x80
>>>   cpu_features      = 0x0000c06f8f5fb1a7
>>>     possible        = 0x0000fbffcf5fb1a7
>>>     always          = 0x00000003800081a1
>>>   cpu_user_features = 0xdc0065c2 0xaee00000
>>>   mmu_features      = 0xbc006041
>>>   firmware_features = 0x0000000010000000
>>>   hash-mmu: ppc64_pft_size    = 0x0
>>>   hash-mmu: kernel vmalloc start   = 0xc008000000000000
>>>   hash-mmu: kernel IO start        = 0xc00a000000000000
>>>   hash-mmu: kernel vmemmap start   = 0xc00c000000000000
>>>   -----------------------------------------------------
>>> 
>>> Fix:
>>> 
>>>   -----------------------------------------------------
>>>   phys_mem_size     = 0x200000000
>>>   dcache_bsize      = 0x80
>>>   icache_bsize      = 0x80
>>>   cpu_features      = 0x0000c06f8f5fb1a7
>>>     possible        = 0x0000fbffcf5fb1a7
>>>     always          = 0x00000003800081a1
>>>   cpu_user_features = 0xdc0065c2 0xaee00000
>>>   mmu_features      = 0xbc006041
>>>   firmware_features = 0x0000000010000000
>>>   vmalloc start     = 0xc008000000000000
>>>   IO start          = 0xc00a000000000000
>>>   vmemmap start     = 0xc00c000000000000
>>>   -----------------------------------------------------
>>> 
>>> Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin at gmail.com>
>> 
>> I fear your change defeats most of the purpose of commit 
>> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git/commit/?h=next-20190515&id=e4dccf9092ab48a6f902003b9558c0e45d0e849a
>
> I think it's still a significant improvement without introducing
> the regression :)
>
>> As far as I understand, the main issue is the "hash-mmu:" prefix ?
>> That's due to the following define in top of book3s64/hash_utils.c:
>> 
>> #define pr_fmt(fmt) "hash-mmu: " fmt
>> 
>> Could we simply undef it just before print_system_hash_info() ?
>
> Little bit fragile I think.
>
>> Or move print_system_hash_info() in another book3s64 specific file which 
>> doesn't set pr_fmt ?
>
> print_system_info() would be okay for me and allow getting rid of
> that PPC64 config. Although it also needs to go in a file without
> pr_fmt I guess that's not so hard.

Or it could use printk(KERN_INFO "...") instead of pr_info(), which I
think makes sense if the pr_fmt prefix is undesired.

-- 
Thiago Jung Bauermann
IBM Linux Technology Center



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