From: Gabriel Paubert <paubert@iram.es>
To: Christian Kujau <lists@nerdbynature.de>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc: Fix crash during static key init on ppc32
Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2016 10:52:14 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160810085214.GA2117@visitor2.iram.es> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.20.14.1608100113430.8131@trent.utfs.org>
On Wed, Aug 10, 2016 at 01:17:55AM -0700, Christian Kujau wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Aug 2016, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> > We cannot do those initializations from apply_feature_fixups() as
> > this function runs in a very restricted environment in 32-bit where
> > the kernel isn't running at its linked address and the PTRRELOC()
> > macro must be used for any global accesss.
> >
> > Instead, split them into a separtate steup_feature_keys() function
> > which is called in a more suitable spot on ppc32.
>
> Wow, cool. With that applied (on top of mainline from some minutes ago),
> this PowerPC G4 boots again. Thanks!
Just a question, does sleep work on your PowerBook?
It has been broken for several releases of the kernel on mine, but I've not
had time to investigate it and it might also be a distro/systemd issue.
Regards,
Gabriel
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-08-10 9:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-08-09 5:19 4.8.0-rc1: Invalid memory access at $SRR0: 0140f86c $SRR1: 00003030 Christian Kujau
2016-08-09 9:06 ` Christian Kujau
2016-08-09 11:52 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2016-08-10 1:39 ` Christian Kujau
2016-08-10 4:58 ` Michael Ellerman
2016-08-10 5:25 ` Christian Kujau
2016-08-10 7:02 ` Michael Ellerman
2016-08-10 7:27 ` [PATCH] powerpc: Fix crash during static key init on ppc32 Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2016-08-10 8:17 ` Christian Kujau
2016-08-10 8:52 ` Gabriel Paubert [this message]
2016-08-11 0:25 ` Christian Kujau
2016-08-11 11:16 ` Michael Ellerman
2016-08-10 7:18 ` 4.8.0-rc1: Invalid memory access at $SRR0: 0140f86c $SRR1: 00003030 Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2016-08-10 9:33 ` Michael Ellerman
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