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SubjectRe: [Regression 5.6-rc1][Bisected b6231ea2b3c6] Powerpc 8xx doesn't boot anymore
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On 02/12/2020 02:24 PM, Christophe Leroy wrote:
> 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 ?
>

The following patch allows powerpc 8xx to boot again. Don't know if
that's the good place and way to do the fix though.

---
diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/cpm_uart/cpm_uart_core.c
b/drivers/tty/serial/cpm_uart/cpm_uart_core.c
index 4cabded8390b..341d682ec6eb 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/serial/cpm_uart/cpm_uart_core.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/serial/cpm_uart/cpm_uart_core.c
@@ -1351,6 +1351,7 @@ static int __init cpm_uart_console_setup(struct
console *co, char *options)
clrbits32(&pinfo->sccp->scc_gsmrl, SCC_GSMRL_ENR | SCC_GSMRL_ENT);
}

+ cpm_muram_init();
ret = cpm_uart_allocbuf(pinfo, 1);

if (ret)
---
Christophe
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