Re: Linux 3.12-rc2 - MIPS regression

From: Aaro Koskinen
Date: Tue Oct 01 2013 - 12:28:00 EST


On Tue, Oct 01, 2013 at 02:24:21PM +0900, Yoichi Yuasa wrote:
> On Sat, 28 Sep 2013 02:10:12 +0300
> Aaro Koskinen <aaro.koskinen@xxxxxx> wrote:
> > 3.12-rc2 breaks the boot (BUG: scheduling while atomic, see logs below)
> > on Lemote Mini-PC (MIPS). According to git bisect, this is caused by:
> >
> > ff522058bd717506b2fa066fa564657f2b86477e is the first bad commit
> > commit ff522058bd717506b2fa066fa564657f2b86477e
> > Author: Ralf Baechle <ralf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Date: Tue Sep 17 12:44:31 2013 +0200
> >
> > MIPS: Fix accessing to per-cpu data when flushing the cache
> >
> > Reverting the commit from v3.12-rc2 makes the board boot fine.
>
> Please try this patch on top of rc2.
>
> MIPS: Fix forgotten preempt_enable() when CPU has inclusive pcaches

Didn't work but making similar change to also r4k_dma_cache_inv() helps.
So both r4k_dma_cache_wback_inv() and r4k_dma_cache_inv() need to
be fixed.

A.

> Signed-off-by: Yoichi Yuasa <yuasa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> diff --git a/arch/mips/mm/c-r4k.c b/arch/mips/mm/c-r4k.c
> index 627883b..2492e60 100644
> --- a/arch/mips/mm/c-r4k.c
> +++ b/arch/mips/mm/c-r4k.c
> @@ -609,6 +609,7 @@ static void r4k_dma_cache_wback_inv(unsigned long addr, unsigned long size)
> r4k_blast_scache();
> else
> blast_scache_range(addr, addr + size);
> + preempt_enable();
> __sync();
> return;
> }
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