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Message-ID: <5DCFCB41.3090807@zoho.com>
Date:   Sat, 16 Nov 2019 18:11:13 +0800
From:   Zhou Yanjie <zhouyanjie@...o.com>
To:     Paul Burton <paulburton@...nel.org>
Cc:     linux-mips@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        ralf@...ux-mips.org, jhogan@...nel.org, gregkh@...uxfoundation.org,
        paul.burton@...s.com, chenhc@...ote.com, paul@...pouillou.net,
        tglx@...utronix.de, jiaxun.yang@...goat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] MIPS: Ingenic: Disable abandoned HPTLB function.

Hi Paul,

On 2019年11月16日 05:37, Paul Burton wrote:
> Hi Zhou,
>
> On Thu, Oct 24, 2019 at 05:29:01PM +0800, Zhou Yanjie wrote:
>> JZ4760/JZ4770/JZ4775/X1000/X1500 has an abandoned huge page
>> tlb, write 0xa9000000 to cp0 config5 sel4 to disable this
>> function to prevent getting stuck.
> Can you describe how we "get stuck"?

When the kernel is started, it will be stuck in the "Run /init as init 
process"
according to the log information. After using the debug probe, it is found
that tlbmiss occurred when the run init was started, and entered the 
infinite
loop in the "tlb-funcs.S".

> What actually goes wrong on the
> affected CPUs? Do they misinterpret EntryLo values? Which bits do they
> misinterpret?

According to Ingenic's explanation, this is because the 
JZ4760/JZ4770/JZ4775/X1000
use the same core (both belong to PRID_COMP_INGENIC_D1). This core is 
not fully
implemented in VTLB at design time, but only implements the 4K page mode.
Support for larger pages was implemented by a component called HPTLB that
they designed themselves, but this component was later discarded, so write
0xa9000000 to cp0 register5 sel4 to turn off HPTLB mode and return to VTLB
mode. The actual test also shows that the kernel will no longer be stuck in
the "Run / init as init process" after shutting down the HPTLB mode, and can
boot to the shell normally.

>
>> Confirmed by Ingenic,
>> this operation will not adversely affect processors
>> without HPTLB function.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Zhou Yanjie <zhouyanjie@...o.com>
>> ---
>>   arch/mips/kernel/cpu-probe.c | 16 ++++++++++++++--
>>   1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/mips/kernel/cpu-probe.c b/arch/mips/kernel/cpu-probe.c
>> index 16033a4..cfebf8c 100644
>> --- a/arch/mips/kernel/cpu-probe.c
>> +++ b/arch/mips/kernel/cpu-probe.c
>> @@ -1966,11 +1966,23 @@ static inline void cpu_probe_ingenic(struct cpuinfo_mips *c, unsigned int cpu)
>>   	}
>>   
>>   	/*
>> -	 * The config0 register in the Xburst CPUs with a processor ID of
>> +	 * The config0 register in the XBurst CPUs with a processor ID of
>> +	 * PRID_COMP_INGENIC_D1 has an abandoned huge page tlb, write
>> +	 * 0xa9000000 to cp0 config5 sel4 to disable this function to
> Saying "config5" suggests $16 sel 5 to me - Config5 is after all an
> architecturally defined register & it's not this one. It'd be better to
> say "cop0 register 5 sel 4".

Sure, I'll change it in v2.

>> +	 * prevent getting stuck.
>> +	 */
>> +	if ((c->processor_id & PRID_COMP_MASK) == PRID_COMP_INGENIC_D1) {
>> +		__asm__ (
>> +			"li    $2, 0xa9000000 \n\t"
>> +			"mtc0  $2, $5, 4      \n\t"
>> +			"nop                  \n\t"
>> +			::"r"(2));
> I'd prefer that you add #defines to asm/mipsregs.h to provide a
> write_c0_X() function where X is replaced with whatever the name of this
> register is, and preferably also #define macros describing the fields
> present in the register. Writing a magic number isn't ideal.

Sure, I'll change it in v2.

>> +	/*
>> +	 * The config0 register in the XBurst CPUs with a processor ID of
>>   	 * PRID_COMP_INGENIC_D0 report themselves as MIPS32r2 compatible,
>>   	 * but they don't actually support this ISA.
>>   	 */
>> -	if ((c->processor_id & PRID_COMP_MASK) == PRID_COMP_INGENIC_D0)
>> +	} else if ((c->processor_id & PRID_COMP_MASK) == PRID_COMP_INGENIC_D0)
> It might be cleaner to use a switch statement rather than writing out
> the & PRID_COMP_MASK condition twice?

Sure, I'll change it in v2.

Thanks and best regards!

>
> Thanks,
>      Paul