[PASEMI] Nemo board doesn't boot anymore after the commit "powerpc/book3s64/pkeys: Simplify pkey disable branch"
Aneesh Kumar K.V
aneesh.kumar at linux.ibm.com
Mon Aug 10 01:03:19 AEST 2020
On 8/9/20 8:04 PM, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
> On 8/9/20 7:42 PM, Christian Zigotzky wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> The Nemo board (A-EON AmigaOne X1000) [1] doesn't start with the
>> latest Git kernel anymore after the commit "powerpc/book3s64/pkeys:
>> Simplify pkey disable branch" [2].
>>
>> I bisected today [3].
>>
>> Result: powerpc/book3s64/pkeys: Simplify pkey disable branch
>> (a4678d4b477c3d2901f101986ca01406f3b7eaea) [2] is the first bad commit.
>>
>> Unfortunately I wasn't able to revert the first bad commit. The first
>> bad commit depends on many other commits, which unfortunately I don't
>> know. I tried to remove the modifications of the files from the first
>> bad commit but without any success. There are just too many dependencies.
>>
>> Additionally I reverted the commit "selftests/powerpc: Fix pkey
>> syscall redefinitions" [4] and compiled a new kernel but without any
>> success.
>>
>> Could you please check the first bad commit?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Christian
>>
>
>
> Can you share a successful boot log of the system so that i can double
> check the cpu_feature and mmu_feature reported ? I am looking for
> details similar to below.
>
> [ 0.000000] cpu_features = 0x0001c07f8f5f91a7
> [ 0.000000] possible = 0x0001fbffcf5fb1a7
> [ 0.000000] always = 0x00000003800081a1
> [ 0.000000] cpu_user_features = 0xdc0065c2 0xefe00000
> [ 0.000000] mmu_features = 0x7c006001
> [ 0.000000] firmware_features = 0x0000001fc45bfc57
> [ 0.000000] vmalloc start = 0xc008000000000000
> [ 0.000000] IO start = 0xc00a000000000000
> [ 0.000000] vmemmap start = 0xc00c000000000000
>
>
> IIUC this is P5+? (ISA 2.04). On that pkey should be marked disabled via
>
> static int scan_pkey_feature(void)
> {
> int ret;
> int pkeys_total = 0;
>
> ....
>
> /*
> * Only P7 and above supports SPRN_AMR update with MSR[PR] = 1
> */
> if (!early_cpu_has_feature(CPU_FTR_ARCH_206))
> return 0;
>
>
> }
>
> Can you boot with CONFIG_PPC_MEM_KEYS=n ?
Can you try this change on top of master?
modified arch/powerpc/mm/book3s64/pkeys.c
@@ -215,10 +215,6 @@ void __init pkey_early_init_devtree(void)
pr_info("Enabling pkeys with max key count %d\n", num_pkey);
out:
- /*
- * Setup uamor on boot cpu
- */
- mtspr(SPRN_UAMOR, default_uamor);
return;
}
-aneesh
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