[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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