linux-stable.git/arch/mips/kernel/setup.c, branch linux-4.3.y

MIPS: bootmem: Fix mapstart calculation for contiguous maps

2015-09-22T15:25:33+00:00

Commit a6335fa1 fixed the case with gap between initrd and next usable PFN zone,
but broken the case when initrd is combined with usable memory into one region
(in add_memory_region()). Restore the fixup initially brought in by f9a7febd.

---- error message ----
Unpacking initramfs...
Initramfs unpacking failed: junk in compressed archive
BUG: Bad page state in process swapper  pfn:00261
page:81004c20 count:0 mapcount:-127 mapping:  (null) index:0x2
flags: 0x0()
page dumped because: nonzero mapcount
CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper Not tainted 4.2.0+ #1782
-----------------------

Signed-off-by: Alexander Sverdlin 
Reported-by: Tony Wu 
Tested-by: Tony Wu 
Cc: David Daney 
Cc: Zubair Lutfullah Kakakhel 
Cc: Huacai Chen 
Cc: Joe Perches 
Cc: Steven J. Hill 
Cc: Aaro Koskinen 
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/11086/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle

treewide: fix typos in comment blocks

2015-08-07T12:46:24+00:00

Looks like the word "contiguous" is often mistyped.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada 
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina

MIPS: bootmem: Don't use memory holes for page bitmap

2015-07-09T09:02:59+00:00

Commit f9a7febd leads to a fact that mapstart and therefore a page bitmap for
bootmem allocator immediately follows initrd_end. This doesn't always work
well on Octeon, where there are holes in PFN ranges (refer to 5b3b1688 and
4MB-aligned PFN allocation). Depending on the inird location it could happen,
that mapstart would be in an area not allocated by plat_mem_setup() in
arch/mips/cavium-octeon/setup.c, but in the alignment hole between initrd and
the next PFN area. Later on this memory will be unconditionally made available
to buddy allocator at the end of free_all_bootmem_core() (mm/bootmem.c).
All of this results in Linux using the memory not designated for Linux in
Octeon's plat_mem_setup(), which in turn means corruption of the memory used
by another OS/baremetal code on the same SoC.

It doesn't look to me as a problem of Octeon platform code, but rather as an
inability of f9a7febd to deal correctly with the fragmented memory-mappings.
Proposed fix moves the check for initrd address to the same calculation-loop
in bootmem_init() (arch/mips/kernel/setup.c), which also accounts for kernel
code location. This should result in mapstart located starting from the first
PFN area after kernel code AND initrd.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Sverdlin 
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: David Daney 
Cc: Zubair Lutfullah Kakakhel 
Cc: Huacai Chen 
Cc: Andreas Herrmann 
Cc: Joe Perches 
Cc: Steven J. Hill 
Cc: Yusuf Khan 
Cc: Michael Kreuzer 
Cc: Aaro Koskinen 
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/10594/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle

MIPS, ttyFDC: Add early FDC console support

2015-03-31T10:04:12+00:00

Add support for early console of MIPS Fast Debug Channel (FDC) on
channel 1 with a call very early from the MIPS setup_arch().

Signed-off-by: James Hogan 
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman 
Cc: Jiri Slaby 
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/9145/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle

MIPS: Use phys_addr_t instead of phys_t

2014-12-12T23:36:13+00:00

Ralf Baechle says:
 "This should have been part of the merge commit c0222ac08666 (Merge
  branch 'upstream' of git://git.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/-
  ralf/upstream-linus) but I forgot to mention the need for this in my
  pull request"

Signed-off-by: Jaedon Shin 
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge branch 'upstream' of git://git.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/ralf/upstream-linus

2014-12-12T01:56:37+00:00

Pull MIPS updates from Ralf Baechle:
 "This is an unusually large pull request for MIPS - in parts because
  lots of patches missed the 3.18 deadline but primarily because some
  folks opened the flood gates.

   - Retire the MIPS-specific phys_t with the generic phys_addr_t.
   - Improvments for the backtrace code used by oprofile.
   - Better backtraces on SMP systems.
   - Cleanups for the Octeon platform code.
   - Cleanups and fixes for the Loongson platform code.
   - Cleanups and fixes to the firmware library.
   - Switch ATH79 platform to use the firmware library.
   - Grand overhault to the SEAD3 and Malta interrupt code.
   - Move the GIC interrupt code to drivers/irqchip
   - Lots of GIC cleanups and updates to the GIC code to use modern IRQ
     infrastructures and features of the kernel.
   - OF documentation updates for the GIC bindings
   - Move GIC clocksource driver to drivers/clocksource
   - Merge GIC clocksource driver with clockevent driver.
   - Further updates to bring the GIC clocksource driver up to date.
   - R3000 TLB code cleanups
   - Improvments to the Loongson 3 platform code.
   - Convert pr_warning to pr_warn.
   - Merge a bunch of small lantiq and ralink fixes that have been
     staged/lingering inside the openwrt tree for a while.
   - Update archhelp for IP22/IP32
   - Fix a number of issues for Loongson 1B.
   - New clocksource and clockevent driver for Loongson 1B.
   - Further work on clk handling for Loongson 1B.
   - Platform work for Broadcom BMIPS.
   - Error handling cleanups for TurboChannel.
   - Fixes and optimization to the microMIPS support.
   - Option to disable the FTLB.
   - Dump more relevant information on machine check exception
   - Change binfmt to allow arch to examine PT_*PROC headers
   - Support for new style FPU register model in O32
   - VDSO randomization.
   - BCM47xx cleanups
   - BCM47xx reimplement the way the kernel accesses NVRAM information.
   - Random cleanups
   - Add support for ATH25 platforms
   - Remove pointless locking code in some PCI platforms.
   - Some improvments to EVA support
   - Minor Alchemy cleanup"

* 'upstream' of git://git.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/ralf/upstream-linus: (185 commits)
  MIPS: Add MFHC0 and MTHC0 instructions to uasm.
  MIPS: Cosmetic cleanups of page table headers.
  MIPS: Add CP0 macros for extended EntryLo registers
  MIPS: Remove now unused definition of phys_t.
  MIPS: Replace use of phys_t with phys_addr_t.
  MIPS: Replace MIPS-specific 64BIT_PHYS_ADDR with generic PHYS_ADDR_T_64BIT
  PCMCIA: Alchemy Don't select 64BIT_PHYS_ADDR in Kconfig.
  MIPS: lib: memset: Clean up some MIPS{EL,EB} ifdefery
  MIPS: iomap: Use __mem_{read,write}{b,w,l} for MMIO
  MIPS:  fix indentation.
  MAINTAINERS: Add entry for BMIPS multiplatform kernel
  MIPS: Enable VDSO randomization
  MIPS: Remove a temporary hack for debugging cache flushes in SMTC configuration
  MIPS: Remove declaration of obsolete arch_init_clk_ops()
  MIPS: atomic.h: Reformat to fit in 79 columns
  MIPS: Apply `.insn' to fixup labels throughout
  MIPS: Fix microMIPS LL/SC immediate offsets
  MIPS: Kconfig: Only allow 32-bit microMIPS builds
  MIPS: signal.c: Fix an invalid cast in ISA mode bit handling
  MIPS: mm: Only build one microassembler that is suitable
  ...

MIPS: Replace use of phys_t with phys_addr_t.

2014-11-24T21:47:31+00:00

Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle

mips: Convert pr_warning to pr_warn

2014-11-24T06:44:51+00:00

Use the much more common pr_warn instead of pr_warning
with the goal of removing pr_warning eventually.

Other miscellanea:

o Coalesce formats
o Realign arguments

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches 
Cc: linux-mips 
Cc: LKML 
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/7935/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle

MIPS: Fix address type used for early memory detection.

2014-11-24T06:44:07+00:00

In 'early_parse_mem' the data type used for the start
and size of a memory region specified on the command line
is incorrect. If 64-bit addressing is used, the value
gets truncated.

Signed-off-by: Steven J. Hill 
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/8456/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle

MIPS: Fix info about plat_setup in arch_mem_init comment

2014-11-24T06:44:04+00:00

Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki 
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/7607/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle