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From: "Russell King (Oracle)" <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
To: Christian Eggers <ceggers@arri.de>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, llvm@lists.linux.dev,
	Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: CONFIG_THUMB2_KERNEL=y boot failure after Spectre BHB fixes
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2022 17:11:16 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YkSBJD0oA7zxHS+B@shell.armlinux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2109354.irdbgypaU6@localhost.localdomain>

On Tue, Mar 22, 2022 at 06:49:17PM +0100, Christian Eggers wrote:
> Hi Nathan, hi Russel,
> 
> I stumbled today over the same problem (no output on serial console
> with v5.15.28-rt36). During `git bisect`, I had also some commits
> where a few lines of output were visible.
> 
> At commit 8d9d651ff227 ("ARM: use LOADADDR() to get load address of
> sections"), the system boots up to here:
> 
> start_kernel()
> +--setup_arch()
>    +--paging_init()
>       +--devicemaps_init()
>          +--eary_trap_init(vectors_base = 0xC7FFE000)
>             +--copy_from_lma(vectors_base = 0xC7FFE000, __vectors_start=0x0, __vectors_end=0x20)
>                +--__memcpy()
> 
>                copy_template.S:113
>                ldr8w   r1, r3, r4, r5, r6, r7, r8, ip, lr, abort=20f
>                r1 = 0
> 
> 
> With the final v5.15.28-rt36 I found out that the system boots fine
> after disabling CONFIG_HARDEN_BRANCH_HISTORY.
> 
> Is there anything else I could analyze? My SoC system is a NXP i.MX6LL
> with a ARMv7 core. I have access to a JTAG debugger.

I think this is already fixed in mainline. Commit:

6c7cb60bff7a ("ARM: fix Thumb2 regression")

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  reply	other threads:[~2022-03-30 16:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-03-10 19:16 CONFIG_THUMB2_KERNEL=y boot failure after Spectre BHB fixes Nathan Chancellor
2022-03-22 17:49 ` Christian Eggers
2022-03-30 16:11   ` Russell King (Oracle) [this message]
2022-03-30 16:34     ` Ard Biesheuvel
2022-03-30 16:36       ` Russell King (Oracle)
2022-03-30 16:45         ` Ard Biesheuvel
2022-03-30 17:32           ` Christian Eggers
2022-03-30 17:42             ` Ard Biesheuvel
2022-03-30 18:27               ` Christian Eggers
2022-03-30 18:45                 ` Russell King (Oracle)

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