[PATCH] Revert "ARM: pxa: call debug_ll_io_init for earlyprintk"

Arnd Bergmann arnd at arndb.de
Tue Oct 7 14:36:47 PDT 2014


On Tuesday 07 October 2014 21:33:56 Robert Jarzmik wrote:
> Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de> writes:
> >
> > Can't you just define CONFIG_DEBUG_UART_VIRT outside of the existing
> > mappings? It doesn't have to use the same mapping as PERIPH_PHYS.
> >
> >       Arnd
> Yep, that looks better.
> Would something like that be appropriate ? I tested that on pxa27x, but not on
> pxa25x, even if there seems to be no reason it wouldn't work for it too ...
> 
> And I have not yet thought over if there is any impact on vmalloc memory or if
> the double virtual mapping can trigger something bad.

Ah, you mean doing it now? That would work too.

I was thinking of reverting the patch for now and fixing it properly later,
but your patch also looks simple enough that we could probably just do it.

> ---<8---
> From 93239cf3015997d45fec8fee97059758cac1fab3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Robert Jarzmik <robert.jarzmik at free.fr>
> Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2014 21:18:14 +0200
> Subject: [PATCH] ARM: pxa: fix hang on startup with DEBUG_LL
> 
> The commit 2111667b4677 ("ARM: pxa: call debug_ll_io_init for
> earlyprintk") triggers in the current kernel the attached backtrace on
> PXA/tosa early in the boot time when DEBUG_LL is enabled.
> 
> It is due to overlap between uart virtual memory defined in
> DEBUG_UART_VIRT and mapped by debug_ll_io_init() and peripheral bus
> mapped by pxa_map_io at the same address, 0xf2100000.
> 
> As hinted by Arnd, map early virtual memory for low level debug on
> address 0xf6200000, even if that means 2 virtual mappings will give
> access to the pxa internal UARTs (FFUART, BTUART, STUART, ...).

Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>

> ------------[ cut here ]------------
> kernel BUG at /home/lumag/linux/mm/vmalloc.c:1143!
> Internal error: Oops - BUG: 0 [#1] PREEMPT ARM
> Modules linked in:
> CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper Not tainted 3.17.0-00032-g8e0d202-dirty #23
> task: c062a5a8 ti: c0620000 task.ti: c0620000
> PC is at vm_area_add_early+0x54/0x84
> LR is at add_static_vm_early+0xc/0x60
> pc : [<c03e1100>]    lr : [<c03d9ef4>]    psr: 800001d3
> sp : c0621f04  ip : c03efa74  fp : c03edf84
> r10: c0637e98  r9 : 40000001  r8 : c03da57c
> r7 : c3ffcfb0  r6 : 00000000  r5 : c3ffcfb0  r4 : 02000000
> r3 : c3ffcfd8  r2 : f2100000  r1 : f4000000  r0 : c3ffcfb0
> Flags: Nzcv  IRQs off  FIQs off  Mode SVC_32  ISA ARM  Segment kernel
> Control: 00007977  Table: a0004000  DAC: 00000017
> Process swapper (pid: 0, stack limit = 0xc06201c8)
> Stack: (0xc0621f04 to 0xc0622000)
> 1f00:          c3ffcfd8 40000001 c3ffcfd8 c03ee08c c03da570 c03db90c c0637d24
> 1f20: 00000000 c03ec7cc c066e654 a0700000 000a0700 c03db914 c03db90c c03daf84
> 1f40: 00000000 000a0000 c0000000 c03ec7cc 000a0700 c0700000 ffff1000 000a3fff
> 1f60: 00001000 00000007 00000000 c03ec7cc c0008000 c03ed748 c0621fd4 c03d5d18
> 1f80: 69052d00 a03ec48c 00000000 c03d8ad0 0000006c 00007977 c036c6e8 00000001
> 1fa0: c0621fd4 c03ed744 c0628000 a0004000 69052d00 a03ec48c 00000000 c03d68d4
> 1fc0: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 c03ed748 c0649894 c062801c
> 1fe0: c03ed744 c062b2f0 a0004000 69052d00 a03ec48c a0008040 00000000 00000000
> [<c03e1100>] (vm_area_add_early) from [<c03d9ef4>] (add_static_vm_early+0xc/0x60)
> [<c03d9ef4>] (add_static_vm_early) from [<c03da570>] (iotable_init.part.6+0xa8/0xb4)
> [<c03da570>] (iotable_init.part.6) from [<c03db914>] (pxa25x_map_io+0x8/0x24)
> [<c03db914>] (pxa25x_map_io) from [<c03daf84>] (paging_init+0x744/0x8d8)
> [<c03daf84>] (paging_init) from [<c03d8ad0>] (setup_arch+0x354/0x608)
> [<c03d8ad0>] (setup_arch) from [<c03d68d4>] (start_kernel+0xa8/0x3dc)
> [<c03d68d4>] (start_kernel) from [<a0008040>] (0xa0008040)
> Code: e5904008 e0811004 e1520001 2a000005 (e7f001f2)
> ---[ end trace f24b6c88ae00fa9a ]---
> Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill the idle task!
> ---[ end Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill the idle task!
> 
> Cc: <stable at vger.kernel.org>
> Reported-by: Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov <dbaryshkov at gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Robert Jarzmik <robert.jarzmik at free.fr>





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