Kernel 3.15: Boot problems with a PA6T board

[Christian Zigotzky <chzigotzky@xenosoft.de>]

Hi Michael,

Thanks a lot for your answer.

On 26.05.2014 14:26, Michael Ellerman wrote:
>
> Hi Christian,
>
> I'm almost certain that is not the commit which breaks your machine. Or if it
> is, something *really* weird is going on.
>
> The code changed in that commit should never run on a PA6T.
You're right. I think this patch is for Power 8.
>> Experimental protocol:
>>
>> git checkout -f 01d8885785a60ae8f4c37b0ed75bdc96d0fc6a44; git clean -fdx
>> (from 02/04/14) -> Kernel boots
>> git checkout -f f1553174a207f68a4ec19d436003097e0a4dc405; git clean -fdx
>> (from 03/04/14) -> Kernel boots
>> git checkout -f d40326f4b9f9617cdfd30f83a2db57d47e9c5bac; git clean -fdx
>> (from 04/04/14) -> Kernel boots
>> git checkout -f 930b440cd8256f3861bdb0a59d26efaadac7941a; git clean -fdx
>> (from 05/04/14) -> doesn't boot (rtc error)
>> git checkout -f 2b3a8fd735f86ebeb2b9d061054003000c36b654; git clean -fdx
>> (from 06/04/14) -> doesn't boot (rtc error)
>> git checkout -f 26c12d93348f0bda0756aff83f4867d9ae58a5a6; git clean -fdx
>> (from 07/04/14) -> doesn't boot (rtc error)
>> git checkout -f a6c8aff022d4d06e4b41455ae9b2a5d3d503bf76; git clean -fdx
>> (from 08/04/14) -> Kernel boots
>> git checkout -f 035328c202d26a824b8632fd3b00635db5aee5a2; git clean -fdx
>> (from 08/04/14) -> Kernel boots
>> git checkout -f 9000c17dc0f9c910267d2661225c9d33a227b27e; git clean -fdx
>> (from 08/04/14) powerpc/powernv: Fix endian issues with sensor code
>> One OPAL call and one device tree property needed byte swapping. ->
>> doesn't boot (prom_init)
>> git checkout -f d3d35d957a9d0733dc51f14b5abc0bff5d3c5f3a; git clean -fdx
>> (from 08/04/14) -> doesn't boot (prom_init)
>> git checkout -f c4586256f0c440bc2bdb29d2cbb915f0ca785d26; git clean -fdx
>> (from 09/04/14) -> doesn't boot (prom_init)
> So it looks like you manually picked commits based on the date?
Yes, it is.
> That's a good start, but if you want to find the actual problem commit you need
> to do a proper bisect.
>
>> I'm not a programmer but what can I do to solve this boot problem?
> To start with you can probably narrow it down a bit by testing the following
> commits:

>
> 18a1a7a1d862ae0794a0179473d08a414dd49234 <- It doesn't boot. Error messages: Oops: Machine check, sig: 7 [#1] CPU: 1 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 not tainted

> d8ff9cdf68fd119d491f3de90e1a612afc2f3b2b <- It boots. :-)

> 0f5a869600141a0d5575e3190af01a050c081b07 <- It boots. :-)

> c7e64b9ce04aa2e3fad7396d92b5cb92056d16ac <- It boots. :-)

> d3e144532703fe2454b56eddb56f30d2d620187b <- It boots. :-)

I think the machine check is the problem.

Cheers,

Christian