linux-kernel - Re: [linux-next][bisected 1945bc45] build brakes for PowerPC BE configuration on LPAR

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Date:   Fri, 05 May 2017 09:40:10 +0530
From:   Abdul Haleem <abdhalee@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:     Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@...il.com>
Cc:     sachinp <sachinp@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>,
        ego <ego@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        mahesh@...ux.vnet.ibm.com,
        linuxppc-dev <linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org>
Subject: Re: [linux-next][bisected 1945bc45] build brakes for PowerPC BE
 configuration on LPAR

On Thu, 2017-05-04 at 20:41 +1000, Nicholas Piggin wrote:
> On Thu, 04 May 2017 14:54:19 +0530
> Abdul Haleem <abdhalee@...ux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > linux-next build fails on BE config with next-20170424 onwards
> > 
> > the patch https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/4/20/994  fixes a similar issue
> > with kvm guest build failure.
> > 
> > arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64s.S: Assembler messages:
> > arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64s.S:395: Error: operand out of range
> > (0xffffffffffff8280 is not between 0x0000000000000000 and
> > 0x000000000000ffff)
> > make[1]: *** [arch/powerpc/kernel/head_64.o] Error 1
> > 
> > Bisection resulted with the below bad commit.
> > 
> > commit 1945bc4549e5cb1f9aa873ec29191aa54dc851d
> > Author: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@...il.com>
> > Date:   Wed Apr 19 23:05:47 2017 +1000
> > 
> >     powerpc/64s: Fix POWER9 machine check handler from stop state
> > 
> >     Reviewed-by: Gautham R. Shenoy <ego@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
> >     Reviewed-by: Mahesh J Salgaonkar <mahesh@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
> >     Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@...il.com>
> >     Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>
> > 
> >  arch/powerpc/include/asm/reg.h       |  1 +
> >  arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64s.S | 79 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------------------------------
> >  arch/powerpc/kernel/idle_book3s.S    | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >  3 files changed, 70 insertions(+), 35 deletions(-)
> > 
> > the BE configuration file is attached.
> > 
> 
> Thanks for the report. I wouldn't reproduce it with this config. I
> suspect the following patch should fix it, can you test?
> 
> powerpc/64s: Fix unnecessary machine check handler relocation branch
> 
> Similarly to 2563a70c3b ("powerpc/64s: Remove unnecessary relocation
> branch from idle handler"), the machine check handler has a BRANCH_TO
> from relocated to relocated code, which is unnecessary.
> 
> It has also caused build errors with some toolchains:
> 
>   arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64s.S: Assembler messages:
>   arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64s.S:395: Error: operand out of range
>   (0xffffffffffff8280 is not between 0x0000000000000000 and
>   0x000000000000ffff)
> 
> Fixes: 1945bc4549 ("powerpc/64s: Fix POWER9 machine check handler from stop state")
> Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@...il.com>
> ---
>  arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64s.S | 4 +---
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64s.S b/arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64s.S
> index 3840a7700285..ef72065f684c 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64s.S
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64s.S
> @@ -391,9 +391,7 @@ EXC_COMMON_BEGIN(machine_check_handle_early)
>  	 */
>  	BEGIN_FTR_SECTION
>  	rlwinm.	r11,r12,47-31,30,31
> -	beq-	4f
> -	BRANCH_TO_COMMON(r10, machine_check_idle_common)
> -4:
> +	bne	machine_check_idle_common
>  	END_FTR_SECTION_IFSET(CPU_FTR_HVMODE | CPU_FTR_ARCH_206)
>  #endif
> 

Machine Builds and boots fine, Thanks for the patch :-)

Reported-and-tested-by : Abdul Haleem <abdhalee@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>

-- 
Regard's

Abdul Haleem
IBM Linux Technology Centre