Re: Relocating bootwrapper causes kernel panic

[Shawn Jin <shawnxjin@gmail.com>]

>> The flat tree located at 0xbe4300 as the kerne message showed. Why
>> cannot the kernel access this area? No TLB set for this area?
>>
>> <1>Unable to handle kernel paging request for data at address 0xc0be4308
>> <1>Faulting instruction address: 0xc01fdabc
>> <4>Oops: Kernel access of bad area, sig: 11 [#1]
>
> Before the flat tree was accessed, I checked the DTLB and didn't find
> any entry related to 0xc0be4300. After the exception, I found the
> following DTLBs.
>
> 30 : 02 =A0c0be4000 =A0 4KB ------ -> 00000000
> 31 : 00 =A0fa000000 =A0 8MB VI-S-M -> fa000000
>
> The DTLB#30 doesn't seem right. Why would it map to 0x0? I think this
> should be something like 00be4000?

When the early_debug is enabled, the kernel can boot successfully. I
checked the TLB settings and found the following.

28 : 00  c0000000   8MB V--S-M -> 00000000
29 : 00  fa000000   8MB VI-S-M -> fa000000
30 : 00  c0800000   8MB V--S-M -> 00800000
31 : 14  04919000   ?KB V---WM -> 00e45000

So the kernel can access the dtb at 0xbe4300 because of the pinned down DTL=
B#30.

I think the cause is clear now. But how to fix it? Two questions:
1. Should this DTLB miss exception properly set a new TLB entry for
the new dtb address 0xbe4300?
2. If the DTLB miss exception handler is not the right guy to load a
proper TLB entry, how can I set one entry based on the link_address
and the address of the flat dt blob?

Thanks a lot,
-Shawn.