Re: AArch64 boot failure on Hikey960 on latest master after "arm64: insn: Don't fallback on nosync path for general insn patching"

From: Valentin Schneider
Date: Thu Aug 16 2018 - 09:59:18 EST


Hi,

On 16/08/18 11:22, Will Deacon wrote:
> Hi Tuomas, [+John]
>
> On Thu, Aug 16, 2018 at 02:38:51AM +0300, Tuomas Tynkkynen wrote:
>> Booting Linus's master of today with the usual arm64 defconfig fails for
>> me on the Hikey960 board. I've bisected it down to:
>>
>> commit 693350a7998018391852c48f68956cf0f855b2b9 (HEAD, refs/bisect/bad)
>> Author: Will Deacon <will.deacon@xxxxxxx>
>> Date: Tue Jun 19 17:55:28 2018 +0100
>>
>> arm64: insn: Don't fallback on nosync path for general insn patching
>>
>> Here's the boot log with earlycon enabled after which the boot hangs:
>
> Thanks for the boot log, that's really helpful. Please can you try the diff
> below?
>

I get the same "BUG: scheduling while atomic" when running the current master
(f91e654474d413201ae578820fb63f8a811f6c4e), and confirmed that I don't get
it on my setup when checking out the direct parent of 693350a7998018391852c48f68956cf0f855b2b9.

Tried out the diff and the board doesn't seem to die anymore, so FWIW:

Tested-by: Valentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@xxxxxxx>

> Out of interest -- do you know if Hikey960 is used by any boot-testing
> farms? The patch above has been in linux-next for ages, but we didn't see
> any complaints until it hit mainline :(
>
> Cheers,
>
> Will
>
> --->8
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/jump_label.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/jump_label.c
> index c2dd1ad3e648..e0756416e567 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/jump_label.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/jump_label.c
> @@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ void arch_jump_label_transform(struct jump_entry *entry,
> insn = aarch64_insn_gen_nop();
> }
>
> - aarch64_insn_patch_text(&addr, &insn, 1);
> + aarch64_insn_patch_text_nosync(addr, insn);
> }
>
> void arch_jump_label_transform_static(struct jump_entry *entry,
>