Messages in this thread | | | From | Christophe Leroy <> | Subject | Re: Regression: Linux v5.15+ does not boot on Freescale P2020 | Date | Tue, 2 Aug 2022 06:47:49 +0000 |
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Le 26/07/2022 à 15:44, Segher Boessenkool a écrit : > On Tue, Jul 26, 2022 at 11:02:59AM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote: >> On Tue, Jul 26, 2022 at 10:34 AM Pali Rohár <pali@kernel.org> wrote: >>> On Monday 25 July 2022 16:54:16 Segher Boessenkool wrote: >>>> The EH field in larx insns is new since ISA 2.05, and some ISA 1.x cpu >>>> implementations actually raise an illegal insn exception on EH=1. It >>>> appears P2020 is one of those. >>> >>> P2020 has e500 cores. e500 cores uses ISA 2.03. So this may be reason. >>> But in official Freescale/NXP documentation for e500 is documented that >>> lwarx supports also eh=1. Maybe it is not really supported. >>> https://www.nxp.com/files-static/32bit/doc/ref_manual/EREF_RM.pdf (page 562) > > (page 6-186) > >>> At least there is NOTE: >>> Some older processors may treat EH=1 as an illegal instruction. > > And the architecture says > Programming Note > Warning: On some processors that comply with versions of the > architecture that precede Version 2.00, executing a Load And Reserve > instruction in which EH = 1 will cause the illegal instruction error > handler to be invoked. > >> In commit d6ccb1f55ddf ("powerpc/85xx: Make sure lwarx hint isn't set on ppc32") >> this was clarified to affect (all?) e500v1/v2, > > e500v1/v2 based chips will treat any reserved field being set in an > opcode as illegal. > > while the architecture says > > Reserved fields in instructions are ignored by the processor. > > Whoops :-) We need fixes for processor implementation bugs all the > time of course, but this is a massive *design* bug. I'm surprised this > CPU still works as well as it does!
"Programming Environments Manual for 32-Bit Implementations of the PowerPC™ Architecture" §4.1.2.2.2 says: "Invalid forms result when a bit or operand is coded incorrectly, for example, or when a reserved bit (shown as ‘0’) is coded as ‘1’."
> > Even the venerable PEM (last updated in 1997) shows the EH field as > reserved, always treated as 0. > >> this one apparently >> fixed it before, >> but Christophe's commit effectively reverted that change. >> >> I think only the simple_spinlock.h file actually uses EH=1 > > That's right afaics. > >> and this is not >> included in non-SMP kernels, so presumably the only affected machines were >> the rare dual-core e500v2 ones (p2020, MPC8572, bsc9132), which would >> explain why nobody noticed for the past 9 months. > > Also people using an SMP kernel on older cores should see the problem, > no? Or is that patched out? Or does this use case never happen :-)
Maybe unlike e500, older cores ignore the EH bit and don't mind when it's set to 1 ?
Chritophe
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