[Regression 5.6-rc1][Bisected b6231ea2b3c6] Powerpc 8xx doesn't boot anymore
From: Christophe Leroy
Date: Wed Feb 12 2020 - 09:24:41 EST
Hi Rasmus,
Kernel 5.6-rc1 silently fails on boot.
I bisected the problem to commit b6231ea2b3c6 ("soc: fsl: qe: drop
broken lazy call of cpm_muram_init()")
I get a bad_page_fault() for an access at address 8 in
cpm_muram_alloc_common(), called from cpm_uart_console_setup() via
cpm_uart_allocbuf()
Reverting the guilty commit on top of 5.6-rc1 is not trivial.
In your commit text you explain that cpm_muram_init() is called via
subsys_initcall. But console init is done before that, so it cannot work.
Do you have a fix for that ?
Thanks
Christophe
NB: Next time, can you please copy powerpc mailing list when changing
such core parts of powerpc CPUs ?