am335x: 5.18.x: system stalling

[Ard Biesheuvel]

On Wed, 1 Jun 2022 at 10:08, Ard Biesheuvel <ardb at kernel.org> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 1 Jun 2022 at 09:59, Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, Jun 1, 2022 at 9:36 AM Yegor Yefremov
> > <yegorslists at googlemail.com> wrote:
> > > On Tue, May 31, 2022 at 5:23 PM Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de> wrote:
> > > > I've pushed a modified branch now, with that fix on the broken commit,
> > > > and another change to make CONFIG_IRQSTACKS user-selectable rather
> > > > than always enabled. That should tell us if the problem is in the SMP
> > > > patching or in the irqstacks.
> > > >
> > > > Can you test the top of this branch with CONFIG_IRQSTACKS disabled,
> > > > and (if that still stalls) retest the fixed commit f0191ea5c2e5 ("[PART 1]
> > > > ARM: implement THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK for uniprocessor systems")?
> > >
> > > 1. the top of this branch with CONFIG_IRQSTACKS disabled stalls
> > > 2. f0191ea5c2e5 with the same config - not
> >
> > Ok, perfect, that does narrow down the problem quite a bit: The final
> > patch has seven changes, all of which can be done individually because
> > in each case the simplified version in f0191ea5c2e5 is meant to run
> > the exact same instructions as the version after the change, when running
> > on a uniprocessor machine such as your am335x.
> >
> > You have already shown earlier that the get_current() and
> > __my_cpu_offset() functions are not to blame here, as reverting
> > only those does not change the behavior.
> >
> > This leaves the is_smp() check in set_current(), and the
> > four macros in <asm/assembler.h>. I don't see anything obviously
> > wrong with any of those five, but I would bet on the macros
> > here. Can you try bisecting into this commit, maybe reverting
> > the changes to set_current and get_current first, and then
> > narrowing it down to (hopefully) a single macro that causes the
> > problem?
> >
>
> set_current() is never called by the primary CPU, which is why the
> is_smp() check was removed from there in 57a420435edcb0b94 ("ARM: drop
> pointless SMP check on secondary startup path").
>
> So that leaves only the four macros in asm/assembler.h, but I don't
> see anything obviously wrong with those either.

I pushed a patch on top of Arnd's branch at the link below that gets
rid of the subsections, and uses normal branches (and code patching)
to switch between the thread ID register and the LDR to retrieve the
CPU offset and the current pointer. I have no explanation whether or
why it could make a difference, but I think it's worth a try.