[RFC PATCH kernel] powerpc: Fix early setup to make early_ioremap work

Alexey Kardashevskiy aik at ozlabs.ru
Thu May 20 15:52:38 AEST 2021



On 20/05/2021 15:46, Christophe Leroy wrote:
> 
> 
> Le 20/05/2021 à 05:29, Alexey Kardashevskiy a écrit :
>> The immediate problem is that after
>> 0bd3f9e953bd ("powerpc/legacy_serial: Use early_ioremap()")
>> the kernel silently reboots. The reason is that early_ioremap() returns
>> broken addresses as it uses slot_virt[] array which initialized with
>> offsets from FIXADDR_TOP == IOREMAP_END+FIXADDR_SIZE ==
>> KERN_IO_END- FIXADDR_SIZ + FIXADDR_SIZE == __kernel_io_end which is 0
>> when early_ioremap_setup() is called. __kernel_io_end is initialized
>> little bit later in early_init_mmu().
>>
>> This fixes the initialization by swapping early_ioremap_setup and
>> early_init_mmu.
> 
> Hum ... Chris tested it on a T2080RDB, that must be a book3e.
> 
> So we missed it. I guess your fix is right.


Oh cool.

>>
>> This also fixes IOREMAP_END to use FIXADDR_SIZE defined just next to it,
>> seems to make sense, unless there is some weird logic with redefining
>> FIXADDR_SIZE as the compiling goes.
> 
> Well, I don't think the order of defines matters, the change should be 
> kept out of the fix.

When I see this:

#define IOREMAP_END    (KERN_IO_END - FIXADDR_SIZE)
#define FIXADDR_SIZE    SZ_32M


... I have to think harder what FIXADDR_SIZE was in the first macro and 
in what order the preprocessor expands them.


> But if you want it anyway, then I'd suggest to move it before 
> IOREMAP_BASE in order to keep the 3 IOREMAP_xxx together.

Up to Michael, I guess.


> 
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik at ozlabs.ru>
> 
> Reviewed-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy at csgroup.eu>
> 
>> ---
>>   arch/powerpc/include/asm/book3s/64/pgtable.h | 2 +-
>>   arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_64.c               | 3 ++-
>>   2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/book3s/64/pgtable.h 
>> b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/book3s/64/pgtable.h
>> index a666d561b44d..54a06129794b 100644
>> --- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/book3s/64/pgtable.h
>> +++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/book3s/64/pgtable.h
>> @@ -325,8 +325,8 @@ extern unsigned long pci_io_base;
>>   #define  PHB_IO_END    (KERN_IO_START + FULL_IO_SIZE)
>>   #define IOREMAP_BASE    (PHB_IO_END)
>>   #define IOREMAP_START    (ioremap_bot)
>> -#define IOREMAP_END    (KERN_IO_END - FIXADDR_SIZE)
>>   #define FIXADDR_SIZE    SZ_32M
>> +#define IOREMAP_END    (KERN_IO_END - FIXADDR_SIZE)
>>   /* Advertise special mapping type for AGP */
>>   #define HAVE_PAGE_AGP
>> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_64.c 
>> b/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_64.c
>> index b779d25761cf..ce09fe5debf4 100644
>> --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_64.c
>> +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_64.c
>> @@ -369,11 +369,12 @@ void __init early_setup(unsigned long dt_ptr)
>>       apply_feature_fixups();
>>       setup_feature_keys();
>> -    early_ioremap_setup();
>>       /* Initialize the hash table or TLB handling */
>>       early_init_mmu();
>> +    early_ioremap_setup();
>> +
>>       /*
>>        * After firmware and early platform setup code has set things up,
>>        * we note the SPR values for configurable control/performance
>>

-- 
Alexey


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