[PATCH for v3.11] ARM: mvebu: fix length of ethernet registers in mv78260 dtsi

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Sun Jun 23 04:16:14 EDT 2013


Dear Ezequiel Garcia,

On Sat, 22 Jun 2013 13:52:27 -0300, Ezequiel Garcia wrote:
> From: Ezequiel Garcia <ezequiel.garcia at free-electrons.com>
> 
> The length of the registers area for the Marvell 370/XP Ethernet controller
> was incorrect in the .dtsi: 0x2500, while it should have been 0x4000.
> This problem wasn't noticed because there used to be a static mapping for
> all the MMIO register region set up by ->map_io().
> 
> The register length was fixed in all the other device tree files,
> except from the armada-xp-mv78260.dtsi, in the following commit:
> 
>   commit cf8088c5cac6ce20d914b9131533844b9291a054
>   Author: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com>
>   Date:   Tue May 21 12:33:27 2013 +0200
> 
>     arm: mvebu: fix length of Ethernet registers area in .dtsi
> 
> This commit fixes a kernel panic in mvneta_probe(), when the kernel
> tries to access the unmapped registers:
> 
> [  163.639092] mvneta d0070000.ethernet eth0: mac: 6e:3c:4f:87:17:2e
> [  163.646962] mvneta d0074000.ethernet eth1: mac: 6a:04:4e:6f:f5:ef
> [  163.654853] mvneta d0030000.ethernet eth2: mac: 2a:99:19:19:fc:4c
> [  163.661258] Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address f011bcf0
> [  163.668523] pgd = c0004000
> [  163.671237] [f011bcf0] *pgd=2f006811, *pte=00000000, *ppte=00000000
> [  163.677565] Internal error: Oops: 807 [#1] SMP ARM
> [  163.682370] CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 3.10.0-rc6-01850-gba0682e #11
> [  163.690046] task: ef04c000 ti: ef03e000 task.ti: ef03e000
> [  163.695467] PC is at mvneta_probe+0x34c/0xabc
> [...]
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ezequiel Garcia <ezequiel.garcia at free-electrons.com>

Acked-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com>

Thanks for spotting the issue!

Thomas
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