Re: parisc crash on boot with 4.8+git

From: Helge Deller
Date: Tue Oct 11 2016 - 14:47:00 EST


* Meelis Roos <mroos@xxxxxxxx>:
> > > Memory Ranges:
> > > 0) Start 0x0000000000000000 End 0x000000003fffffff Size 1024 MB
> > > 1) Start 0x0000004040000000 End 0x000000407fdfffff Size 1022 MB
> > > Total Memory: 2046 MB

Meelis and myself debugged the crash off-list.
It turns out, that I missed to zero-initialize the new memblocks.
Patch below fixes this.

Helge

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parisc: Zero-initialize newly alloced memblock

Commit 4fe9e1d957e4 ("parisc: Drop bootmem and switch to memblock")
switched to the memblock allocator, but missed to zero-initialize the
newly allocated memblocks. This lead to crashes on some machines like
the rp3410.

Fixes: 4fe9e1d957e4 ("parisc: Drop bootmem and switch to memblock")
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@xxxxxx>

diff --git a/arch/parisc/mm/init.c b/arch/parisc/mm/init.c
index 356f384..62ac801 100644
--- a/arch/parisc/mm/init.c
+++ b/arch/parisc/mm/init.c
@@ -105,6 +105,8 @@ static void * __init get_memblock(unsigned long size)
else
panic("get_memblock() failed.\n");

+ memset(__va(phys), 0, size);
+
return __va(phys);
}