linux-stable.git/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom_init.c, branch linux-4.1.y

powerpc: Add missing error check to prom_find_boot_cpu()

2017-03-06T22:29:30+00:00

[ Upstream commit af2b7fa17eb92e52b65f96604448ff7a2a89ee99 ]

prom_init.c calls 'instance-to-package' twice, but the return
is not checked during prom_find_boot_cpu(). The result is then
passed to prom_getprop(), which could be PROM_ERROR. Add a return check
to prevent this.

This was found on a pasemi system, where CFE doesn't have a working
'instance-to package' prom call.

Before Commit 5c0484e25ec0 ('powerpc: Endian safe trampoline') the area
around addr 0 was mostly 0's and this doesn't cause a problem. Once the
macro 'FIXUP_ENDIAN' has been added to head_64.S, the low memory area
now has non-zero values, which cause the prom_getprop() call
to hang.

mpe: Also confirmed that under SLOF if 'instance-to-package' did fail
with PROM_ERROR we would crash in SLOF. So the bug is not specific to
CFE, it's just that other open firmwares don't trigger it because they
have a working 'instance-to-package'.

Fixes: 5c0484e25ec0 ("powerpc: Endian safe trampoline")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v3.13+
Signed-off-by: Darren Stevens 
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman 
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

powerpc/pseries: Fix IBM_ARCH_VEC_NRCORES_OFFSET since POWER8NVL was added

2016-06-18T15:59:23+00:00

[ Upstream commit 2c2a63e301fd19ccae673e79de59b30a232ff7f9 ]

The recent commit 7cc851039d64 ("powerpc/pseries: Add POWER8NVL support
to ibm,client-architecture-support call") added a new PVR mask & value
to the start of the ibm_architecture_vec[] array.

However it missed the fact that further down in the array, we hard code
the offset of one of the fields, and then at boot use that value to
patch the value in the array. This means every update to the array must
also update the #define, ugh.

This means that on pseries machines we will misreport to firmware the
number of cores we support, by a factor of threads_per_core.

Fix it for now by updating the #define.

Fixes: 7cc851039d64 ("powerpc/pseries: Add POWER8NVL support to ibm,client-architecture-support call")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.0+
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman 
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

powerpc/pseries: Add POWER8NVL support to ibm,client-architecture-support call

2016-06-17T13:29:29+00:00

[ Upstream commit 7cc851039d643a2ee7df4d18177150f2c3a484f5 ]

If we do not provide the PVR for POWER8NVL, a guest on this system
currently ends up in PowerISA 2.06 compatibility mode on KVM, since QEMU
does not provide a generic PowerISA 2.07 mode yet. So some new
instructions from POWER8 (like "mtvsrd") get disabled for the guest,
resulting in crashes when using code compiled explicitly for
POWER8 (e.g. with the "-mcpu=power8" option of GCC).

Fixes: ddee09c099c3 ("powerpc: Add PVR for POWER8NVL processor")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.0+
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth 
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman 
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

powerpc: Reword the "returning from prom_init" message

2015-04-10T10:02:48+00:00

We get way too many bug reports that say "the kernel is hung in
prom_init", which stems from the fact that the last piece of output
people see is "returning from prom_init".

The kernel is almost never hung in prom_init(), it's just that it's
crashed somewhere after prom_init() but prior to the console coming up.

The existing message should give a clue to that, ie. "returning from"
indicates that prom_init() has finished, but it doesn't seem to work.
Let's try something different.

This prints:

  Quiescing Open Firmware ...
  Booting Linux via __start() ...

Which hopefully makes it clear that prom_init() is not the problem, and
although __start() probably isn't either, it's at least the right place
to begin looking.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman 
Wistfully-Acked-by: Jeremy Kerr

powerpc/powernv: Remove OPAL v1 takeover

2014-06-25T03:10:47+00:00

In commit 27f4488872d9 "Add OPAL takeover from PowerVM" we added support
for "takeover" on OPAL v1 machines.

This was a mode of operation where we would boot under pHyp, and query
for the presence of OPAL. If detected we would then do a special
sequence to take over the machine, and the kernel would end up running
in hypervisor mode.

OPAL v1 was never a supported product, and was never shipped outside
IBM. As far as we know no one is still using it.

Newer versions of OPAL do not use the takeover mechanism. Although the
query for OPAL should be harmless on machines with newer OPAL, we have
seen a machine where it causes a crash in Open Firmware.

The code in early_init_devtree() to copy boot_command_line into cmd_line
was added in commit 817c21ad9a1f "Get kernel command line accross OPAL
takeover", and AFAIK is only used by takeover, so should also be
removed.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman 
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt

powerpc: Check return value of instance-to-package OF call

2014-01-12T22:49:17+00:00

On PA-Semi firmware, the instance-to-package callback doesn't seem
to be implemented. We didn't check for error, however, thus
subsequently passed the -1 value returned into stdout_node to
thins like prom_getprop etc...

Thus caused the firmware to load values around 0 (physical) internally
as node structures. It somewhat "worked" as long as we had a NULL in the
right place (address 8) at the beginning of the kernel, we didn't "see"
the bug. But commit 5c0484e25ec03243d4c2f2d4416d4a13efc77f6a
"powerpc: Endian safe trampoline" changed the kernel entry point causing
that old bug to now cause a crash early during boot.

This fixes booting on PA-Semi board by properly checking the return
value from instance-to-package.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt 
Tested-by: Olof Johansson 
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powerpc: prom_init exception when updating core value

2013-10-11T05:53:16+00:00

Since the CPU is generating an exception when accessing unaligned word, and
as this exception is not yet handled when running prom_init, data should be
copied from the architecture vector byte per byte.

Signed-off-by: Laurent Dufour 
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt

powerpc/pseries: Do not start secondaries in Open Firmware

2013-09-25T04:19:00+00:00

Starting secondary CPUs early on from Open Firmware and placing them
in a holding spin loop slows down the boot process significantly under
some hypervisors such as KVM.

This is also unnecessary when RTAS supports querying the CPU state

So let's not do it.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt

powerpc: Fix section mismatch warning for prom_rtas_call

2013-09-11T01:39:38+00:00

While cross-building for PPC64 I've got

WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text.unlikely+0x1ba): Section mismatch in
reference from the function .prom_rtas_call() to the variable
.init.data:dt_string_start The function .prom_rtas_call() references
the variable __initdata dt_string_start.  This is often because
.prom_rtas_call lacks a __initdata annotation or the annotation of
dt_string_start is wrong.

WARNING: vmlinux.o(.meminit.text+0xeb0): Section mismatch in reference
from the function .free_area_init_core.isra.47() to the function
.init.text:.set_pageblock_order() The function __meminit
.free_area_init_core.isra.47() references a function __init
.set_pageblock_order().  If .set_pageblock_order is only used by
.free_area_init_core.isra.47 then annotate .set_pageblock_order with a
matching annotation.

Fix it by proper annotation of prom_rtas_call.

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Murzin 
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt

powerpc: Make prom_init.c endian safe

2013-08-14T05:33:28+00:00

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt 
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard 
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt