[RFT PATCH master 1/2] ARM: MXS: fix breakage for non-DT boards

Ahmad Fatoum a.fatoum at pengutronix.de
Sun Oct 9 23:12:34 PDT 2022


boarddata, the third argument passed from barebox PBL to barebox proper,
is usually either a pointer to an optionally compressed flattened device tree
or a machien type integer casted to a pointer.

In order to support device trees located in the first 8192 bytes of
address space, barebox has been trying to dereference boarddata, before
falling back to treating it as integer.

This resulted in breakage as boarddata may be an integer not divisible
by 4 and thus an unaligned exception would occur.

The already existing barebox_arm_boarddata mechanism sidesteps this
issue: With it, the machine type integer is not passed as is, but the
address of a suitably aligned structure that contains it is passed
instead.

Searching for MACHINE_TYPE in arch/arm/boards shows 5 boards to be
affected in-tree, which are all fixed with this commit.

Fixes: 390bc7834ffc ("ARM: start: check for machine type last")
Signed-off-by: Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum at pengutronix.de>
---
@Bastian, could you give this a test on your i.MX23 board?
---
 arch/arm/boards/chumby_falconwing/lowlevel.c     | 10 +++++++++-
 arch/arm/boards/crystalfontz-cfa10036/lowlevel.c | 10 +++++++++-
 arch/arm/boards/freescale-mx23-evk/lowlevel.c    | 10 +++++++++-
 arch/arm/boards/imx233-olinuxino/lowlevel.c      | 10 +++++++++-
 arch/arm/boards/karo-tx28/lowlevel.c             | 10 +++++++++-
 5 files changed, 45 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm/boards/chumby_falconwing/lowlevel.c b/arch/arm/boards/chumby_falconwing/lowlevel.c
index 091dd1955260..367f348ee829 100644
--- a/arch/arm/boards/chumby_falconwing/lowlevel.c
+++ b/arch/arm/boards/chumby_falconwing/lowlevel.c
@@ -7,8 +7,16 @@
 #include <mach/imx23-regs.h>
 #include <generated/mach-types.h>
 
+static struct barebox_arm_boarddata boarddata = {
+	.magic = BAREBOX_ARM_BOARDDATA_MAGIC,
+	.machine = MACH_TYPE_CHUMBY,
+};
+
 ENTRY_FUNCTION(start_chumby_falconwing, r0, r1, r2)
 {
+	void *bd = &boarddata;
+
 	arm_cpu_lowlevel_init();
-	barebox_arm_entry(IMX_MEMORY_BASE, SZ_64M, (void *)MACH_TYPE_CHUMBY);
+	barebox_arm_entry(IMX_MEMORY_BASE, SZ_64M,
+			  bd + get_runtime_offset());
 }
diff --git a/arch/arm/boards/crystalfontz-cfa10036/lowlevel.c b/arch/arm/boards/crystalfontz-cfa10036/lowlevel.c
index 92b42aa89350..794cbd89a13a 100644
--- a/arch/arm/boards/crystalfontz-cfa10036/lowlevel.c
+++ b/arch/arm/boards/crystalfontz-cfa10036/lowlevel.c
@@ -7,8 +7,16 @@
 #include <mach/imx28-regs.h>
 #include <generated/mach-types.h>
 
+static struct barebox_arm_boarddata boarddata = {
+	.magic = BAREBOX_ARM_BOARDDATA_MAGIC,
+	.machine = MACH_TYPE_CFA10036,
+};
+
 ENTRY_FUNCTION(start_cfa10036, r0, r1, r2)
 {
+	void *bd = &boarddata;
+
 	arm_cpu_lowlevel_init();
-	barebox_arm_entry(IMX_MEMORY_BASE, SZ_128M, (void *)MACH_TYPE_CFA10036);
+	barebox_arm_entry(IMX_MEMORY_BASE, SZ_128M,
+			  bd + get_runtime_offset());
 }
diff --git a/arch/arm/boards/freescale-mx23-evk/lowlevel.c b/arch/arm/boards/freescale-mx23-evk/lowlevel.c
index 62560bbff733..c795019d8b76 100644
--- a/arch/arm/boards/freescale-mx23-evk/lowlevel.c
+++ b/arch/arm/boards/freescale-mx23-evk/lowlevel.c
@@ -7,8 +7,16 @@
 #include <asm/barebox-arm.h>
 #include <mach/imx23-regs.h>
 
+static struct barebox_arm_boarddata boarddata = {
+	.magic = BAREBOX_ARM_BOARDDATA_MAGIC,
+	.machine = MACH_TYPE_MX23EVK,
+};
+
 ENTRY_FUNCTION(start_imx23_evk, r0, r1, r2)
 {
+	void *bd = &boarddata;
+
 	arm_cpu_lowlevel_init();
-	barebox_arm_entry(IMX_MEMORY_BASE, SZ_32M, (void *)MACH_TYPE_MX23EVK);
+	barebox_arm_entry(IMX_MEMORY_BASE, SZ_32M,
+			  bd + get_runtime_offset());
 }
diff --git a/arch/arm/boards/imx233-olinuxino/lowlevel.c b/arch/arm/boards/imx233-olinuxino/lowlevel.c
index 71fc379f0487..9dd45e78062b 100644
--- a/arch/arm/boards/imx233-olinuxino/lowlevel.c
+++ b/arch/arm/boards/imx233-olinuxino/lowlevel.c
@@ -11,9 +11,17 @@
 #include <mach/iomux.h>
 #include <generated/mach-types.h>
 
+static struct barebox_arm_boarddata boarddata = {
+	.magic = BAREBOX_ARM_BOARDDATA_MAGIC,
+	.machine = MACH_TYPE_IMX233_OLINUXINO,
+};
+
 ENTRY_FUNCTION(start_barebox_olinuxino_imx23, r0, r1, r2)
 {
-	barebox_arm_entry(IMX_MEMORY_BASE, SZ_64M, (void *)MACH_TYPE_IMX233_OLINUXINO);
+	void *bd = &boarddata;
+
+	barebox_arm_entry(IMX_MEMORY_BASE, SZ_64M,
+			  bd + get_runtime_offset());
 }
 
 static const uint32_t pad_setup[] = {
diff --git a/arch/arm/boards/karo-tx28/lowlevel.c b/arch/arm/boards/karo-tx28/lowlevel.c
index 28d96f3e1a5f..868218f83b86 100644
--- a/arch/arm/boards/karo-tx28/lowlevel.c
+++ b/arch/arm/boards/karo-tx28/lowlevel.c
@@ -15,9 +15,17 @@
 #include <stmp-device.h>
 #include <generated/mach-types.h>
 
+static struct barebox_arm_boarddata boarddata = {
+	.magic = BAREBOX_ARM_BOARDDATA_MAGIC,
+	.machine = MACH_TYPE_TX28,
+};
+
 ENTRY_FUNCTION(start_barebox_karo_tx28, r0, r1, r2)
 {
-	barebox_arm_entry(IMX_MEMORY_BASE, SZ_128M, (void *)MACH_TYPE_TX28);
+	void *bd = &boarddata;
+
+	barebox_arm_entry(IMX_MEMORY_BASE, SZ_128M,
+			  bd + get_runtime_offset());
 }
 
 static const uint32_t iomux_pads[] = {
-- 
2.30.2




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