linux-stable.git/arch/powerpc/boot, branch v4.9.78

powerpc/corenet: explicitly disable the SDHC controller on kmcoge4

2017-11-15T14:53:13+00:00

[ Upstream commit a674c7d470bb47e82f4eb1fa944eadeac2f6bbaf ]

It is not implemented on the kmcoge4 hardware and if not disabled it
leads to error messages with the corenet32_smp_defconfig.

Signed-off-by: Valentin Longchamp 
Signed-off-by: Scott Wood 
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

powerpc/boot: Fix zImage TOC alignment

2017-03-26T11:05:57+00:00

commit 97ee351b50a49717543533cfb85b4bf9d88c9680 upstream.

Recent toolchains force the TOC to be 256 byte aligned. We need to
enforce this alignment in the zImage linker script, otherwise pointers
to our TOC variables (__toc_start) could be incorrect. If the actual
start of the TOC and __toc_start don't have the same value we crash
early in the zImage wrapper.

Suggested-by: Alan Modra 
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

powerpc/boot: Request no dynamic linker for boot wrapper

2017-01-09T07:32:25+00:00

commit ff45000fcb56b5b0f1a14a865d3541746d838a0a upstream.

The boot wrapper performs its own relocations and does not require
PT_INTERP segment. However currently we don't tell the linker that.

Prior to binutils 2.28 that works OK. But since binutils commit
1a9ccd70f9a7 ("Fix the linker so that it will not silently generate ELF
binaries with invalid program headers. Fix readelf to report such
invalid binaries.") binutils tries to create a program header segment
due to PT_INTERP, and the link fails because there is no space for it:

  ld: arch/powerpc/boot/zImage.pseries: Not enough room for program headers, try linking with -N
  ld: final link failed: Bad value

So tell the linker not to do that, by passing --no-dynamic-linker.

Reported-by: Anton Blanchard 
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin 
[mpe: Drop dependency on ld-version.sh and massage change log]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

powerpc/ps3: Fix system hang with GCC 5 builds

2017-01-09T07:32:25+00:00

commit 6dff5b67054e17c91bd630bcdda17cfca5aa4215 upstream.

GCC 5 generates different code for this bootwrapper null check that
causes the PS3 to hang very early in its bootup. This check is of
limited value, so just get rid of it.

Signed-off-by: Geoff Levand 
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

powerpc/boot: Fix build failure in 32-bit boot wrapper

2016-11-28T11:58:13+00:00

OPAL is not callable from 32-bit mode and the assembly code for it
may not even build (depending on how binutils was configured).

References: https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=linux&arch=powerpcspe&ver=4.8.7-1&stamp=1479203712
Fixes: 656ad58ef19e ("powerpc/boot: Add OPAL console to epapr wrappers")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.8+
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings 
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman

powerpc/boot: Fix the early OPAL console wrappers

2016-11-24T06:34:01+00:00

When configured with CONFIG_PPC_EARLY_DEBUG_OPAL=y the kernel expects
the OPAL entry and base addresses to be passed in r8 and r9
respectively. Currently the wrapper does not attempt to restore these
values before entering the decompressed kernel which causes the kernel
to branch into whatever happens to be in r9 when doing a write to the
OPAL console in early boot.

This patch adds a platform_ops hook that can be used to branch into the
new kernel. The OPAL console driver patches this at runtime so that if
the console is used it will be restored just prior to entering the
kernel.

Fixes: 656ad58ef19e ("powerpc/boot: Add OPAL console to epapr wrappers")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.8+
Signed-off-by: Oliver O'Halloran 
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman

powerpc/boot: Fix boot on systems with uncompressed kernel image

2016-10-19T09:35:34+00:00

This commit broke boot on systems with an uncompressed kernel image,
namely systems using a cuImage. On such systems the compressed boot
image (boot wrapper, uncompressed kernel image, ..) is decompressed
by u-boot already, therefore the boot wrapper code sees an
uncompressed kernel image.

The old decompression code silently assumed an uncompressed kernel
image if it found no valid gzip signature, whilst the new code
bailed out in this case.

Fix this by re-introducing such a fallback if no valid compressed
image is found.

Fixes: 1b7898ee276b ("Use the pre-boot decompression API")
Signed-off-by: Heiner Kallweit 
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman

powerpc/boot: Add support for XZ compression

2016-09-28T04:35:14+00:00

This patch adds an option to use XZ compression for the kernel image.

Currently this is only enabled for 64-bit Book3S targets, which is
roughly equivalent to the platforms that use the kernel's zImage
wrapper, and that have been tested.

The bulk of the 32-bit platforms and 64-bit BookE use uboot images,
which relies on uboot implementing XZ. In future we can enable XZ
support for those targets once someone has tested it.

Signed-off-by: Oliver O'Halloran 
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman

powerpc/boot: Add XZ support to the wrapper script

2016-09-28T04:32:27+00:00

This modifies the wrapper script so that the -Z option takes an argument
to specify the compression type. It can either be 'gz', 'xz' or 'none'.

The legazy --no-gzip and -z options are still supported and will set the
compression to none and gzip respectively, but they are not documented.

Only XZ -6 is used for compression rather than XZ -9. Using compression
levels higher than 6 requires the decompressor to build a large (64MB)
dictionary when decompressing and some environments cannot satisfy such
large allocations (e.g. POWER 6 LPAR partition firmware).

Signed-off-by: Oliver O'Halloran 
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman

powerpc/boot: Remove the legacy gzip wrapper

2016-09-28T04:31:50+00:00

This code is no longer used and can be removed.

Signed-off-by: Oliver O'Halloran 
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman