Re: 4.8.0-rc1: Invalid memory access at $SRR0: 0140f86c $SRR1: 00003030

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>]

On Tue, 2016-08-09 at 02:06 -0700, Christian Kujau wrote:
> On Mon, 8 Aug 2016, Christian Kujau wrote:
> > 
> > while trying to upgrade this PowerBook G4 from 4.7-rc7 to 4.8-rc1,
> > it's 
> > unable to boot the Yaboot (v1.3.16 from Debian/stable) boot loader:

There should already be a fix for that:

http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/654560/

It should be in Michael's tree if not already in Linus.

Cheers,
Ben.

> > ================================================================
> > copying OF device tree...
> > Building dt strings...
> > Building dt stucture...
> > Device tree strings 0x01e72000 -> 0x01e73615
> > Device tree struct  0x01e74000 -> 0x01e7e000
> > Quiescing Open Firmware...
> > Bootng Linux via __start()...
> > 
> > Invalid memory access at $SRR0: 0140f86c  $SRR1: 00003030
> > 
> > Apple PowerBook6,8 4.9.0f0 BootROM built on 01/10/05 at 10:39:14
> > [...]
> > 
> >  ok
> > 0:> _
> > ================================================================
> > 
> > Going back to 4.7-rc7 (w/o installing Yaboot again) works just
> > fine. The 
> > config is mostly the same (used "make oldconfig" from 4.7), but
> > I've said 
> > YES to CONFIG_SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM - could this be causing the
> > boot 
> > failure? Full .config and screen shot: http://nerdbynature.de/bits/
> > 4.8.0-rc1/
> 
> A git-bisect led me to:
> 
> =========================================
> commit 9402c684613163888714df0955fa1f17142b08bf
> Author: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
> Date:   Tue Jul 5 15:03:41 2016 +1000
> 
>     powerpc: Factor do_feature_fixup calls
>     
>     32 and 64-bit do a similar set of calls early on, we move it all
> to
>     a single common function to make the boot code more readable.
>     
>     Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
>     Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
> =========================================
> 
> But I'm unable to revert just this patch:
> 
> $ git revert 9402c684613163888714df0955fa1f17142b08bf
> error: could not revert 9402c68... powerpc: Factor do_feature_fixup
> calls
> hint: after resolving the conflicts, mark the corrected paths
> 
> The bisect-log:
> 
> =========================================
> $ git bisect log
> git bisect start '--' 'arch/powerpc'
> # good: [523d939ef98fd712632d93a5a2b588e477a7565e] Linux 4.7
> git bisect good 523d939ef98fd712632d93a5a2b588e477a7565e
> # bad: [29b4817d4018df78086157ea3a55c1d9424a7cfc] Linux 4.8-rc1
> git bisect bad 29b4817d4018df78086157ea3a55c1d9424a7cfc
> # bad: [3808a88985b4f5f5e947c364debce4441a380fb8] powerpc: Move FW
> feature probing out of pseries probe()
> git bisect bad 3808a88985b4f5f5e947c364debce4441a380fb8
> # good: [a203658b5ed37c11e5016d3fbbbab9ce018c1b78] powerpc/opal: Wake
> up kopald polling thread before waiting for events
> git bisect good a203658b5ed37c11e5016d3fbbbab9ce018c1b78
> # good: [0dfffb48cecd8f84c6e649baee9bacd9be925734] powerpc/powernv:
> abstraction for saving SPRs before entering deep idle states
> git bisect good 0dfffb48cecd8f84c6e649baee9bacd9be925734
> # good: [66c570f545e056babdd9510595ce762dcedadd71] powerpc/mm: use
> _raw variant of page table accessors
> git bisect good 66c570f545e056babdd9510595ce762dcedadd71
> # good: [c2ca9f6b4cc4c45eb598b24b8b06beee668052d5] powerpc/powernv:
> Fix pci-cxl.c build when CONFIG_MODULES=n
> git bisect good c2ca9f6b4cc4c45eb598b24b8b06beee668052d5
> # good: [4c91bd6eeabb004f283db8a6854b134e2a2de1bc] powerpc: Merge the
> RELOCATABLE config entries for ppc32 and ppc64
> git bisect good 4c91bd6eeabb004f283db8a6854b134e2a2de1bc
> # bad: [c4bd6cb87c9e28a7d9f4a97db5a06cc538eb5e48] powerpc: Move 64-
> bit feature fixup earlier
> git bisect bad c4bd6cb87c9e28a7d9f4a97db5a06cc538eb5e48
> # bad: [9402c684613163888714df0955fa1f17142b08bf] powerpc: Factor
> do_feature_fixup calls
> git bisect bad 9402c684613163888714df0955fa1f17142b08bf
> # good: [27d1149667352772240655b65372a4294f992ea7] powerpc/32: Remove
> RELOCATABLE_PPC32
> git bisect good 27d1149667352772240655b65372a4294f992ea7
> # first bad commit: [9402c684613163888714df0955fa1f17142b08bf]
> powerpc: Factor do_feature_fixup calls
> =========================================
> 
> 
> HTH,
> Christian.