Re: optee: regression with kernel v5.14 (virtualization)

[Jerome Forissier]

On 9/28/21 3:15 PM, Volodymyr Babchuk wrote:
> Hi Jerome,
> 
> On Tue, 28 Sept 2021 at 16:08, Jerome Forissier <jerome@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I met an issue when testing OP-TEE with the latest released kernel
>> (v5.14). The kernel won't boot when virtualization is enabled. More
>> precisely, the boot hangs as the optee driver is probed. The last line
>> on the console is:
>>
>> [xxx] optee: probing for conduit method.
>>
>> The issue can easily be reproduced in the QEMU OP-TEE environment as
>> documented in [1]:
>>
>> $ repo init -u https://github.com/OP-TEE/manifest.git -m qemu_v8.xml
>> $ repo sync -j10
>> $ cd linux
>> $ git fetch github --unshallow
>> $ git checkout v5.14
>> $ cd ../build
>> $ make -j2 toolchains
>> $ make -j10 XEN_BOOT=y run
>>
>> [Note, if you switch between XEN_BOOT=y and the default build, you need
>> to "make arm-tf-clean"]
>>
>> git bisect points at commit b5c10dd04b74 ("optee: Clear stale cache
>> entries during initialization") and reverting this commit on top of
>> v5.14 does resolve the issue.
>>
>> Any idea what's wrong?
> 
> Yes, there was a small mistake in the mediator. My colleague already
> pushed the patch. It is at staging now:
> 
> http://xenbits.xen.org/gitweb/?p=xen.git;a=commit;h=1c3ed9c908732d19660fbe83580674d585464d4c
> 
> And will be backported to Xen 4.13+

Awesome :) Thanks Vlad!

-- 
Jerome