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Date:   Tue, 18 Feb 2020 11:01:28 +0100
From:   LABBE Corentin <clabbe@...libre.com>
To:     Matthias Brugger <matthias.bgg@...il.com>
Cc:     James Morse <james.morse@....com>, nsaenzjulienne@...e.de,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, u-boot@...ts.denx.de,
        bcm-kernel-feedback-list@...adcom.com,
        linux-rpi-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: RPI4: fail too boot with an initrd

On Mon, Feb 17, 2020 at 02:07:09PM +0100, Matthias Brugger wrote:
> 
> 
> On 17/02/2020 13:53, LABBE Corentin wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 17, 2020 at 11:50:04AM +0100, Matthias Brugger wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> On 17/02/2020 11:37, LABBE Corentin wrote:
> >>> On Fri, Feb 14, 2020 at 06:15:27PM +0000, James Morse wrote:
> >>>> Hi Corentin,
> >>>>
> >>>> On 14/02/2020 13:27, LABBE Corentin wrote:
> >>>>> Since the inclusion of the "enable network support in RPi4 config" serie on uboot, I
> >>>>> have started to work on adding the rpi4 in kernelCI.
> >>>>> But I fail to succeed in using a kernel/dtb/ramdisk downloaded via tftp.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Using booti I hit:
> >>>>> [    0.000000] Linux version 5.6.0-rc1-next-20200212 (clabbe@...ld2-bionic-1804) (gcc version 7.4.1 20181213 [linaro-7.4-2019.02 revision 56ec6f6b99cc167ff0c2f8e1a2eed33b1edc85d4] (Linaro    GCC 7.4-2019.02)) #66 SMP PREEMPT Wed Feb 12 10:14:20 UTC 2020
> >>>>> [    0.000000] Machine model: Raspberry Pi 4 Model B
> >>>>> [    0.000000] earlycon: uart0 at MMIO32 0x00000000fe215040 (options '')
> >>>>> [    0.000000] printk: bootconsole [uart0] enabled
> >>>>> [    0.000000] efi: Getting EFI parameters from FDT:
> >>>>> [    0.000000] efi: UEFI not found.
> >>>>
> >>>> So no EFI,
> >>>>
> >>>>> [    0.000000] OF: reserved mem: failed to allocate memory for node 'linux,cma'
> >>>>
> >>>> Out of memory.
> >>>>
> >>>>> [    0.000000] cma: Failed to reserve 32 MiB
> >>>>> [    0.000000] Kernel panic - not syncing: Failed to allocate page table page
> >>>>
> >>>> Out of memory...
> >>>>
> >>>>> [    0.000000] CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper Not tainted 5.6.0-rc1-next-20200212 #66
> >>>>> [    0.000000] Hardware name: Raspberry Pi 4 Model B (DT)
> >>>>> [    0.000000] Call trace:
> >>>>> [    0.000000]  dump_backtrace+0x0/0x1a0
> >>>>> [    0.000000]  show_stack+0x14/0x20
> >>>>> [    0.000000]  dump_stack+0xbc/0x104
> >>>>> [    0.000000]  panic+0x16c/0x37c
> >>>>> [    0.000000]  early_pgtable_alloc+0x30/0xa0
> >>>>
> >>>> ... really early!
> >>>>
> >>>>> [    0.000000]  __create_pgd_mapping+0x36c/0x588
> >>>>> [    0.000000]  map_kernel_segment+0x70/0xa4
> >>>>> [    0.000000]  paging_init+0xf4/0x528
> >>>>> [    0.000000]  setup_arch+0x250/0x5d8
> >>>>> [    0.000000]  start_kernel+0x90/0x6d8
> >>>>>
> >>>>>  
> >>>>> Since the same kernel boot with bootefi and that bootefi lack ramdisk address,
> >>>>
> >>>> Booting with EFI will cause linux to use the EFI memory map.
> >>>>
> >>>> Does your DT have a memory node? (or does it expect EFI to provide the information)
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>> I tried to add the address in the dtb via:
> >>>>> fdt addr 0x02400000; fdt resize; fdt set /chosen linux,initrd-start 0x02700000; fdt set /chosen linux,initrd-end 0x10000000; bootefi 0x00080000 0x02400000
> >>>>> But with that, I get:
> >>>>> initrd not fully accessible via the linear mapping -- please check your bootloader ...
> >>>>
> >>>> So this one is an EFI boot, but you can't find where to put the initramfs such that the
> >>>> kernel agrees its in memory.
> >>>>
> >>>> If you boot with 'efi=debug', linux will print the EFI memory map. Could you compare that
> >>>> to where U-Boot thinks memory is?
> >>>>
> >>>> (it sounds like your DT memory node is missing, and your EFI memory map is surprisingly small)
> >>>
> >>> Hello
> >>>
> >>> Thanks for your advices.
> >>>
> >>> In the dtb of mainline linux:
> >>> 	/* Will be filled by the bootloader */
> >>> 	memory@0 {
> >>> 		device_type = "memory";
> >>> 		reg = <0 0 0>;
> >>> 	};
> >>>
> >>> In uboot I have:
> >>> static struct mm_region bcm2711_mem_map[] = {
> >>>         {
> >>>                 .virt = 0x00000000UL,
> >>>                 .phys = 0x00000000UL,
> >>>                 .size = 0xfe000000UL,
> >>>                 .attrs = PTE_BLOCK_MEMTYPE(MT_NORMAL) |
> >>>                          PTE_BLOCK_INNER_SHARE
> >>>         }, {
> >>>                 .virt = 0xfc000000UL,
> >>>                 .phys = 0xfc000000UL,
> >>>                 .size = 0x03800000UL,
> >>>                 .attrs = PTE_BLOCK_MEMTYPE(MT_DEVICE_NGNRNE) |
> >>>                          PTE_BLOCK_NON_SHARE |
> >>>                          PTE_BLOCK_PXN | PTE_BLOCK_UXN
> >>>         }, {
> >>>                 /* List terminator */
> >>>                 0,
> >>>         }
> >>> };
> >>> But I dont know if uboot use that for filling the memory node.
> >>
> >> No it doesn't. U-Boot uses the DT from the firmware and passes this to the
> >> kernel. But it seems you pass instead your own device-tree to the kernel, so you
> >> will need to update the memory node to show the available memory on you board.
> >>
> > 
> > I dont understand, in the Linux commit "ARM: dts: Add minimal Raspberry Pi 4 support" I read:
> > The RPi 4 is available in 3 different variants (1, 2 and 4 GB RAM), so leave the memory size to zero and let the bootloader take care of it.
> > But if uboot dont fill that...
> > So the DTB in mainline is wrong, right ?
> > 
> 
> How do you pass your DTB to the kernel? Does the FW uses your DTB by putting it
> as bcm2711-rpi-4-b.dtb in the first FAT partition? Or do you load it from U-Boot
> afterwards? In the latter case you have to take care to add the needed size of
> memory. In the first case you use what is the default behavior for U-Boot; the
> RPi FW updates the node and then passes it to U-Boot then it get's passed to the
> kernel.
> 

Hello

I load the dtb via uboot/tftp.
On another thread, I got the hint to enable CONFIG_ARCH_FIXUP_FDT_MEMORY and it made my problem solved.

Thanks
Regards

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