linux-kernel - Re: ARM Juno r1 + CONFIG_PROVE

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Date:   Mon, 14 Oct 2019 11:16:34 +0100
From:   James Morse <james.morse@....com>
To:     Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@...sung.com>
Cc:     Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@....com>,
        Lorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieralisi@....com>,
        Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
        Liviu Dudau <liviu.dudau@....com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: ARM Juno r1 + CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING=y => boot failure

Hi Marek,

On 14/10/2019 10:02, Marek Szyprowski wrote:
> On 11.10.2019 16:42, Sudeep Holla wrote:
>> On Fri, Oct 11, 2019 at 02:43:54PM +0100, Sudeep Holla wrote:
>>> On Fri, Oct 11, 2019 at 03:15:32PM +0200, Marek Szyprowski wrote:
>>>> On 11.10.2019 15:10, Sudeep Holla wrote:
>>>>> On Fri, Oct 11, 2019 at 03:02:42PM +0200, Marek Szyprowski wrote:
>>>>>> On 11.10.2019 12:38, James Morse wrote:
>>>>>>> On 11/10/2019 11:05, Sudeep Holla wrote:
>>>>>>>> On Fri, Oct 11, 2019 at 11:26:04AM +0200, Marek Szyprowski wrote:
>>>>>>>>> Recently I've got access to ARM Juno R1 board and did some tests with
>>>>>>>>> current mainline kernel on it. I'm a bit surprised that enabling
>>>>>>>>> CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING causes a boot failure on this board. After enabling
>>>>>>>>> this Kconfig option, I get no single message from the kernel, although I
>>>>>>>>> have earlycon enabled.

>>>> my bootcmd is:
>>>>
>>>> tftp ${fdt_addr} juno/Image.gz; unzip ${fdt_addr} ${kernel_addr}; tftp
>>>> ${fdt_addr} juno/juno-r1.dtb; booti ${kernel_addr} - ${fdt_addr};
>>>>
>> If your ${kernel_addr}=0x80000000 or within first 32MB, then it will override
>> DTB with the image size I had(35MB). Even if kernel fits 32MB, there is a
>> chance that .bss lies beyond 32MB and it will be cleared during boot resulting
>> in DTB corruption(Andre P reminded me this)
>>
>> Can you try setting $${fdt_addr} to 0x84000000 to begin with ?
> 
> Right, my fault. Changing fdt_addr to something higher than the default 
> 0x82000000 fixed the boot issue. I wonder how I missed that, as I was 
> convinced that there is enough space for the kernel image. Sorry for the 
> noise...

Is it possible for uboot's booti command to print a warning in this case?
The size of the BSS is in the header as the 'effective size' of the kernel'.

(it must have taken a while to bisect this, and it just happened to pick a believable
commit that modified start_kernel()...)


Thanks,

James