linux-kernel - Re: next-20170125 hangs on aarch64

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Message-ID: <20170131071806.GB2821@hector.attlocal.net>
Date:   Tue, 31 Jan 2017 01:18:06 -0600
From:   Andy Gross <andy.gross@...aro.org>
To:     Yury Norov <ynorov@...iumnetworks.com>
Cc:     James Morse <james.morse@....com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: next-20170125 hangs on aarch64

On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 06:21:25PM +0530, Yury Norov wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 11:48:01AM +0000, James Morse wrote:
> > Hi Yury,
> > 
> > [CC: Andy Gross]
> > 
> > On 29/01/17 12:21, Yury Norov wrote:
> > > On Sun, Jan 29, 2017 at 03:42:55PM +0530, Yury Norov wrote:
> > >> Hi all,
> > >>
> > >> I pulled next-20170125 kernel, and found it hanged on boot. The exact reason is
> > >> panic on dereferencing of the 0xffffffc8 address, which is most probably the
> > >> attempt to dereference the ENOSYS error code as the address. next-20170124 works
> > >> fine, at least it boots.
> > >>
> > >> Does anyone have details on that?
> > 
> > I hit this with next-20170130 too, in /arch/arm64/kernel/smccc-call.S
> > aabde95fc543 changed the SMCCC macro to check for an optional quirk structure.
> > 
> > A previous patch provided:
> > > #define arm_smccc_smc(...) __arm_smccc_smc(__VA_ARGS__, NULL)
> > 
> > to handle the 'no quirk' case, but this missed HVC calls.
> > The following hunk fixes/hides it for me:

Wow, I botched this completely.  I missed the hvc using the same macro.  I'll
rework with the fixes below.

> 
> It works for me too, but I think "ldr x4, [sp, #8]" should
> also go under (.if \maybe_quirk != 0) condition - like below.

Yes I believe so.

> ----------------------------%<----------------------------
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/smccc-call.S b/arch/arm64/kernel/smccc-call.S
> index 72ecdca929b1..9e287a7d1822 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/smccc-call.S
> +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/smccc-call.S
> @@ -15,18 +15,20 @@
>  #include <linux/arm-smccc.h>
>  #include <asm/asm-offsets.h>
> 
> -       .macro SMCCC instr
> +       .macro SMCCC instr, maybe_quirk = 0
>         .cfi_startproc
>         \instr  #0
>         ldr     x4, [sp]
>         stp     x0, x1, [x4, #ARM_SMCCC_RES_X0_OFFS]
>         stp     x2, x3, [x4, #ARM_SMCCC_RES_X2_OFFS]
> +       .if \maybe_quirk != 0
>         ldr     x4, [sp, #8]
>         cbz     x4, 1f /* no quirk structure */
>         ldr     x9, [x4, #ARM_SMCCC_QUIRK_ID_OFFS]
>         cmp     x9, #ARM_SMCCC_QUIRK_QCOM_A6
>         b.ne    1f
>         str     x6, [x4, ARM_SMCCC_QUIRK_STATE_OFFS]
> +       .endif
>  1:     ret
>         .cfi_endproc
>         .endm
> @@ -38,7 +40,7 @@
>   *               struct arm_smccc_quirk *quirk)
>   */
>  ENTRY(__arm_smccc_smc)
> -       SMCCC   smc
> +       SMCCC   smc, 1
>  ENDPROC(__arm_smccc_smc)
> 
>  /*
> ----------------------------%<----------------------------
> 
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