KASAN debug kernel fails to boot at early stage when CONFIG_SMP=y is set (kernel 6.5-rc5, PowerMac G4 3,6)

[Erhard Furtner]

On Tue, 12 Sep 2023 17:39:10 +0000
Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy at csgroup.eu> wrote:

> Ah ok, maybe your CPU only has 4 BATs and they are all used, following 
> change would tell us.
> 
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/book3s32/mmu.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/book3s32/mmu.c
> index 850783cfa9c7..bd26767edce7 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/mm/book3s32/mmu.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/book3s32/mmu.c
> @@ -86,6 +86,7 @@ int __init find_free_bat(void)
>   		if (!(bat[1].batu & 3))
>   			return b;
>   	}
> +	pr_err("NO FREE BAT (%d)\n", n);
>   	return -1;
>   }
> 
> Or you have 8 BATs in which case it's an alignment problem, you need to 
> increase CONFIG_DATA_SHIFT to 23, for that you need CONFIG_ADVANCED and 
> CONFIG_DATA_SHIFT_BOOL

Applied all your patches. According to the output my G4 DP seems to have 8 BATs. Now I get the following output on screen before the freeze:

printk: bootconsole [udbg0] enabled
Total memory = 2048MB; using 4096kB for hash table
mapin_ram:125
mmu_mapin_ram:170 0 30000000 1400000 2000000
__mmu_mapin_ram:147 0 1400000
__mmu_mapin_ram:156 1400000
__mmu_mapin_ram:147 1400000 30000000
NO FREE BAT (8)
__mmu_mapin_ram:156 20000000
__mapin_ram_chunk:107 20000000 30000000
__mapin_ram_chunk:117
mapin_ram:134
kasan_mmu_init:132
kasan_mmu_init:135 0
kasan_mmu_init:140
ioremap() called early from btext_map+0x64/0xdc. Use early_ioremap() instead
Linux version 6.6.0-rc1-PMacG4-dirty (root at T1000) (gcc (Gentoo 12.3.1_p20230526 p2) 12.3.1 20230526, GNU ld (Gentoo 2.40 p7) 2.40.0) #5 SMP Tue Sep 12 16:50:47 CEST 2023
kasan_init_region: c0000000 30000000 f8000000 fe000000
NO FREE BAT (8)
kasan_init_region: loop f8000000 fe000000


So I set CONFIG_DATA_SHIFT=23 as suggested but then I only get:

printk: bootconsole [udbg0] enabled
Total memory = 2048MB; using 4096kB for hash table
mapin_ram:125
mmu_mapin_ram:170 0 30000000 1400000 2000000
__mmu_mapin_ram:147 0 1400000
__mmu_mapin_ram:156 1400000
__mmu_mapin_ram:147 1400000 30000000
NO FREE BAT (8)
__mmu_mapin_ram:156 20000000
__mapin_ram_chunk:107 20000000 30000000
__mapin_ram_chunk:117
mapin_ram:134
kasan_mmu_init:132
kasan_mmu_init:135 0
kasan_mmu_init:140


With btext_unmap() left in place in init_32.c I only get:

printk: bootconsole [udbg0] enabled
Total memory = 2048MB; using 4096kB for hash table
mapin_ram:125
mmu_mapin_ram:170 0 30000000 1400000 2000000
__mmu_mapin_ram:147 0 1400000
__mmu_mapin_ram:156 1400000
__mmu_mapin_ram:147 1400000 30000000
NO FREE BAT (8)
__mmu_mapin_ram:156 20000000
__mapin_ram_chunk:107 20000000 30000000
__mapin_ram_chunk:117
mapin_ram:134
btext_unmap:129

Hope the output sheds at least some light on what's going wrong!

Regards,
Erhard