Hi,

commit: 347de24 (powerpc/64s: implement arch-specific hardlockup
watchdog)

linux-next fails to boot on PowerPC Bare-metal box.

Test: boot
Machine type: Power 8 Bare-metal
Kernel: 4.12.0-rc5-next-20170619
gcc: version 4.8.5


In file arch/powerpc/kernel/watchdog.c

void soft_nmi_interrupt(struct pt_regs *regs)
{
    unsigned long flags;
    int cpu = raw_smp_processor_id();
    u64 tb;

    if (!cpumask_test_cpu(cpu, &wd_cpus_enabled))
        return;

>>> nmi_enter();
    tb = get_tb();



commit 347de24231df9f82969e2de3ad9f6976f1856a0f
Author: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Date:   Sat Jun 17 09:33:56 2017 +1000

    powerpc/64s: implement arch-specific hardlockup watchdog
    
    Implement an arch-speicfic watchdog rather than use the perf-based
    hardlockup detector.
    
    The new watchdog takes the soft-NMI directly, rather than going
through
    perf.  Perf interrupts are to be made maskable in future, so that
would
    prevent the perf detector from working in those regions.
    


boot logs:
----------
cpuidle: using governor menu
pstore: using zlib compression
pstore: Registered nvram as persistent store backend
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kernel BUG at arch/powerpc/kernel/watchdog.c:206!
Oops: Exception in kernel mode, sig: 5 [#1]
SMP NR_CPUS=2048 
NUMA 
PowerNV
Modules linked in:
CPU: 67 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/67 Not tainted 4.12.0-rc5-next-20170619 #1
task: c000000f272be700 task.stack: c000000f2736c000
NIP: c00000000002c5fc LR: c00000000002c5e8 CTR: c00000000016f570
REGS: c00000003fcd7a00 TRAP: 0700   Not tainted
(4.12.0-rc5-next-20170619)
MSR: 9000000000021033 <SF,HV,ME,IR,DR,RI,LE>
  CR: 22004022  XER: 20000000  
CFAR: c000000000149c6c SOFTE: 0 
GPR00: c00000000002c5e8 c00000003fcd7c80 c00000000105e900
0000000000000000 
GPR04: 0000000000000000 0000000000073388 c000000fff7cf014
0000000000000000 
GPR08: 0000000ffea90000 0000000000100000 0000000040000000
0000000000000000 
GPR12: 9000000000009033 c00000000fd57080 c000000f2736ff90
0000000000000000 
GPR16: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000040376a80
0000000040376ac8 
GPR20: c000000ffe630000 0000000000000001 0000000000000002
0000000000000000 
GPR24: 0000000000000000 c000000f2736c000 c000000f2736c080
0000000000000008 
GPR28: c00000003fcd7d80 0000000000000003 0000000000000008
0000000000000043 
NIP [c00000000002c5fc] soft_nmi_interrupt+0x9c/0x2e0
LR [c00000000002c5e8] soft_nmi_interrupt+0x88/0x2e0
Call Trace:
Instruction dump:
eba1ffe8 ebc1fff0 ebe1fff8 7c0803a6 4e800020 7c7c1b78 4811d615 60000000 
78290464 8129000c 552902d6 79290020 <0b090000> 78290464 8149000c
3d4a0011 
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kernel BUG at arch/powerpc/kernel/watchdog.c:206!
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kernel BUG at arch/powerpc/kernel/watchdog.c:206!
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kernel BUG at arch/powerpc/kernel/watchdog.c:206!
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kernel BUG at arch/powerpc/kernel/watchdog.c:206!
random: print_oops_end_marker+0x6c/0xa0 get_random_bytes called with
crng_init=0
---[ end trace 9756c1a885c69f33 ]---
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Regard's

Abdul Haleem
IBM Linux Technology Centre