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Date:   Sat, 27 Nov 2021 13:00:33 +0100
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc/mm: fix early initialization failure for MMUs
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To:     Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@nxp.com>,
        Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>,
        linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Cc:     Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
        Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org
References: <20211127020448.4008507-1-vladimir.oltean@nxp.com>
From:   Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
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Le 27/11/2021 à 03:04, Vladimir Oltean a écrit :
> 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@vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@nxp.com>

Thanks for you patch.

However, it should already be fixed in 5.16-rc2 with the following 
commit : 
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/5b54860943dc4681be5de2fc287408c7ce274dfc

Christophe

> ---
>   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
>