From: Frank Rowand <frowand.list@gmail.com>
To: Finn Thain <fthain@telegraphics.com.au>
Cc: Stan Johnson <userm57@yahoo.com>,
Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org>,
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
Chintan Pandya <cpandya@codeaurora.org>,
devicetree@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: v4.17 regression: PowerMac G3 won't boot, was Re: [PATCH v5 1/3] of: cache phandle nodes to reduce cost of of_find_node_by_phandle()
Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2018 21:36:00 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <0ad5dbfd-08f3-b97d-34b9-70fc9a729921@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.2.21.1808301025480.73@nippy.intranet>
Hi Finn,
On 08/29/18 17:44, Finn Thain wrote:
> Hi Frank,
>
> Linux v4.17 and later will no longer boot on a G3 PowerMac. The boot hangs
> very early, before any video driver loads.
>
> Stan and I were able to bisect the regression between v4.16 and v4.17 and
> arrived at commit 0b3ce78e90fc ("of: cache phandle nodes to reduce cost of
> of_find_node_by_phandle()").
>
> I don't see any obvious bug in 0b3ce78e90fc or b9952b5218ad. But if you
> revert these from v4.18 (which is also affected) that certainly resolves
> the issue.
>
> I did see this in the kernel messages:
>
> Duplicate name in PowerPC,750, renamed to "l2-cache#1"
> Duplicate name in mac-io, renamed to "ide#1"
> Duplicate name in ide#1, renamed to "atapi-disk#1"
> Duplicate name in multifunc-device, renamed to "pci1799,1#1"
>
> No idea whether that's relevant; I haven't done any further investigation.
> Complete dmesg output is attached. Please let me know if there's any more
> information you need to help find the bug.
>
> Thanks.
I don't have any useful answers yet, but I am following the thread and have
also quickly scanned the two commits for any obvious cause. I will look
into this some more, but have a few other tasks that I need to complete
first.
A long shot, but something to consider, is that I failed to cover the
cases of dynamic devicetree updates (removing nodes that contain a
phandle) in ways other than overlays. Michael Ellerman has reported
such a problem for powerpc/mobility with of_detach_node(). A patch to
fix that is one of the tasks I need to complete.
-Frank
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-08-31 4:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-03-05 0:14 [PATCH v5 0/3] of: cache phandle nodes to reduce cost of of_find_node_by_phandle() frowand.list
2018-03-05 0:14 ` [PATCH v5 1/3] " frowand.list
2018-03-09 23:03 ` Rob Herring
2018-03-10 1:20 ` Frank Rowand
2018-06-12 18:16 ` Alan Tull
2018-06-13 14:42 ` Alan Tull
2018-06-13 21:47 ` Frank Rowand
2018-06-14 20:59 ` Alan Tull
2018-08-30 0:44 ` v4.17 regression: PowerMac G3 won't boot, was " Finn Thain
2018-08-30 1:05 ` Rob Herring
2018-08-31 2:39 ` Mac User
2018-08-31 4:35 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2018-08-31 4:49 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2018-08-31 4:49 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2018-08-31 4:36 ` Frank Rowand [this message]
2018-08-31 4:58 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2018-09-09 17:04 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2018-09-09 23:52 ` Frank Rowand
2018-09-10 12:53 ` Rob Herring
2018-09-11 15:53 ` Frank Rowand
[not found] ` <abb0dec2-da3a-2c04-0e9f-28851b22cf75@yahoo.com>
2018-09-12 0:15 ` Finn Thain
2018-03-05 0:14 ` [PATCH v5 2/3] memblock: add memblock_free() alloc when CONFIG_HAVE_MEMBLOCK is not set frowand.list
2018-03-06 0:00 ` Andrew Morton
2018-03-05 0:14 ` [PATCH v5 3/3] of: add early boot allocation of of_find_node_by_phandle() cache frowand.list
2018-03-05 20:26 ` Rob Herring
2018-03-06 3:12 ` Frank Rowand
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