From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: "Ira W. Snyder" <iws@ovro.caltech.edu>
Cc: peterz@infradead.org, mingo@redhat.com,
linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, Timur Tabi <timur@freescale.com>
Subject: Re: CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING broken on 83xx (and all of powerpc?)
Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2010 08:01:01 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1284069661.6515.37.camel@pasglop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100909193642.GD3496@ovro.caltech.edu>
On Thu, 2010-09-09 at 12:36 -0700, Ira W. Snyder wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 09, 2010 at 02:10:59PM -0500, Timur Tabi wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 1:44 PM, Ira W. Snyder <iws@ovro.caltech.edu> wrote:
> >
> > > Single stepping through the initial assembly portion of kernel startup
> > > shows that the FDT gets clobbered during the function early_init(). This
> > > trace is reproduced below.
> >
> > Have you tried also enabling CONFIG_DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC? These two
> > config options are related.
> >
>
> Yes, I have had it enabled the whole time.
>
> As noted in another email, it appears that U-Boot puts the FDT in such a
> place that Linux overwrites it with the BSS. The CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING=y
> option expands the BSS by a large amount, which causes the error. It
> isn't directly lockdep related.
>
> I don't know if this is a U-Boot problem or a Linux problem. I have no
> idea how to fix the bug.
Definitely a u-boot problem. There must be a way to set where the fdt
goes somewhere.
Cheers,
Ben.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-09-09 22:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-09-08 23:21 CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING broken on 83xx (and all of powerpc?) Ira W. Snyder
2010-09-09 1:02 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-09-09 2:52 ` Ira W. Snyder
2010-09-09 2:58 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-09-09 16:23 ` Ira W. Snyder
2010-09-09 18:44 ` Ira W. Snyder
2010-09-09 19:10 ` Timur Tabi
2010-09-09 19:36 ` Ira W. Snyder
2010-09-09 19:40 ` Timur Tabi
2010-09-09 20:06 ` Ira W. Snyder
2010-09-09 20:13 ` Timur Tabi
2010-09-09 20:31 ` Ira W. Snyder
2010-09-09 20:36 ` Timur Tabi
2010-09-09 20:55 ` Ira W. Snyder
2010-09-09 21:19 ` Timur Tabi
2010-09-09 22:01 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2010-09-09 19:33 ` Ira W. Snyder
2010-09-09 21:58 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-09-09 22:11 ` Scott Wood
2010-09-09 22:13 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-09-09 22:16 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-09-09 22:37 ` Scott Wood
2010-09-09 22:49 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-09-10 11:29 ` Wolfgang Denk
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=1284069661.6515.37.camel@pasglop \
--to=benh@kernel.crashing.org \
--cc=iws@ovro.caltech.edu \
--cc=linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org \
--cc=mingo@redhat.com \
--cc=peterz@infradead.org \
--cc=timur@freescale.com \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).