Re: [PATCH] powerpc/mm: fix early initialization failure for MMUs with no hash table
From: Vladimir Oltean
Date: Sat Nov 27 2021 - 10:51:02 EST
On Sat, Nov 27, 2021 at 04:04:48AM +0200, Vladimir Oltean wrote:
> The blamed patch attempted to do a trivial conversion of
> map_mem_in_cams() by adding an extra "bool init" argument, but by
> mistake, changed the way in which two call sites pass the other boolean
> argument, "bool dry_run".
>
> As a result, early_init_this_mmu() now calls map_mem_in_cams() with
> dry_run=true, and setup_initial_memory_limit() calls with dry_run=false,
> both of which are unintended changes.
>
> This makes the kernel boot process hang here:
>
> [ 0.045211] e500 family performance monitor hardware support registered
> [ 0.051891] rcu: Hierarchical SRCU implementation.
> [ 0.057791] smp: Bringing up secondary CPUs ...
>
> Issue noticed on a Freescale T1040.
>
> Fixes: 52bda69ae8b5 ("powerpc/fsl_booke: Tell map_mem_in_cams() if init is done")
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@xxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/powerpc/mm/nohash/tlb.c | 4 ++--
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/nohash/tlb.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/nohash/tlb.c
> index 89353d4f5604..647bf454a0fa 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/mm/nohash/tlb.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/nohash/tlb.c
> @@ -645,7 +645,7 @@ static void early_init_this_mmu(void)
>
> if (map)
> linear_map_top = map_mem_in_cams(linear_map_top,
> - num_cams, true, true);
> + num_cams, false, true);
> }
> #endif
>
> @@ -766,7 +766,7 @@ void setup_initial_memory_limit(phys_addr_t first_memblock_base,
> num_cams = (mfspr(SPRN_TLB1CFG) & TLBnCFG_N_ENTRY) / 4;
>
> linear_sz = map_mem_in_cams(first_memblock_size, num_cams,
> - false, true);
> + true, true);
>
> ppc64_rma_size = min_t(u64, linear_sz, 0x40000000);
> } else
> --
> 2.25.1
>
This is a duplicate of commit 5b54860943dc ("powerpc/book3e: Fix TLBCAM preset at boot"),
looks like I'm late to the party. That commit unbricks my board, so
please drop this patch.