arm64 broken in -next by commit 08d53aa58cb1 (of/fdt: export fdt blob as /sys/firmware/fdt)

Catalin Marinas catalin.marinas at arm.com
Wed Dec 10 05:31:07 PST 2014


On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 12:22:10PM +0000, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 12:13:26PM +0000, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> > On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 12:04:23PM +0000, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> > > Ard,
> > > 
> > > I noticed that linux-next no longer boots on Juno. Bisecting, I ended up
> > > on your commit above and reverting it gets things going again. I
> > > initially thought it has something to do with the hardware crypto since
> > > you added some crc32_be() calls but disabling arm64 hw crypto didn't
> > > make any difference.
> > 
> > Commenting out crc32_be() in early_init_dt_verify() allows it to boot.
> > Some printk, it shows:
> > 
> > initial_boot_params = 0xffffffc01fe00000
> > fdt_totalsize(initial_boot_params) = 2108105
> > 
> > Isn't it quite big?
> 
> We assume that the DT blob is maximum 2MB in the initial kernel mapping.
> I'm not sure why it is that big here but early_init_dt_verify() most
> likely doesn't have the areas around initial_boot_params mapped, only
> 2MB section. The crc probably triggers a very early data abort.

For now, I blame my Juno firmware or dtb file. I'll let you know.

-- 
Catalin



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