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Message-ID: <CAHVXubjDhM6NEF6uf981Y2fNA1Dw=Bu_SNtpso6P1=3Np6BUDw@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2024 14:37:21 +0100
From: Alexandre Ghiti <alexghiti@...osinc.com>
To: yunhui cui <cuiyunhui@...edance.com>
Cc: Alexandre Ghiti <alex@...ti.fr>, punit.agrawal@...edance.com, paul.walmsley@...ive.com, 
	palmer@...belt.com, aou@...s.berkeley.edu, sunilvl@...tanamicro.com, 
	ajones@...tanamicro.com, jeeheng.sia@...rfivetech.com, haibo1.xu@...el.com, 
	linux-riscv@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [External] Re: [PATCH] RISC-V: ACPI: fix early_ioremap to early_memremap

Hi Yunhui,

Sorry for the late reply, I was on vacation last week.

On Mon, Oct 21, 2024 at 8:45 AM yunhui cui <cuiyunhui@...edance.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Alex,
>
> On Mon, Oct 14, 2024 at 9:01 PM Alexandre Ghiti <alex@...ti.fr> wrote:
> >
> > On 14/10/2024 14:30, yunhui cui wrote:
> > > Hi Alex,
> > >
> > > On Mon, Oct 14, 2024 at 8:12 PM Alexandre Ghiti <alex@...ti.fr> wrote:
> > >> Hi Yunhui,
> > >>
> > >> On 14/10/2024 11:47, Yunhui Cui wrote:
> > >>> When SVPBMT is enabled, __acpi_map_table() will directly access the
> > >>> data in DDR through the IO attribute, rather than through hardware
> > >>> cache consistency, resulting in incorrect data in the obtained ACPI
> > >>> table.
> > >>>
> > >>> The log: ACPI: [ACPI:0x18] Invalid zero length.
> > >>>
> > >>> We do not assume whether the bootloader flushes or not. We should
> > >>> access in a cacheable way instead of maintaining cache consistency
> > >>> by software.
> > >>>
> > >>> Signed-off-by: Yunhui Cui <cuiyunhui@...edance.com>
> > >>> ---
> > >>>    arch/riscv/kernel/acpi.c | 2 +-
> > >>>    1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > >>>
> > >>> diff --git a/arch/riscv/kernel/acpi.c b/arch/riscv/kernel/acpi.c
> > >>> index 6e0d333f57e5..3177c9af8764 100644
> > >>> --- a/arch/riscv/kernel/acpi.c
> > >>> +++ b/arch/riscv/kernel/acpi.c
> > >>> @@ -210,7 +210,7 @@ void __init __iomem *__acpi_map_table(unsigned long phys, unsigned long size)
> > >>>        if (!size)
> > >>>                return NULL;
> > >>>
> > >>> -     return early_ioremap(phys, size);
> > >>> +     return early_memremap(phys, size);
> > >>>    }
> > >>>
> > >>>    void __init __acpi_unmap_table(void __iomem *map, unsigned long size)
> > >>
> > >> It makes sense to me since with this, we don't have to care about how
> > >> the firmware mapped the table. And it mimics all other architectures
> > >> (arm64, loongarch and x86).
> > >>
> > >> Here is the corresponding fixes tag:
> > >>
> > >> Fixes: 3b426d4b5b14 ("RISC-V: ACPI : Fix for usage of pointers in
> > >> different address space")
> > >>
> > >> With the corresponding fix in __acpi_unmap_table() as pointed by Sunil,
> > >> you can add:
> > >>
> > >> Reviewed-by: Alexandre Ghiti <alexghiti@...osinc.com>
> > >>
> > >> And regarding the sparse error, I don't see any other architecture
> > >> casting to __iomem, so maybe that's not necessary anymore?
> > > OK. I will make the changes in v2. Regarding the sparse error, I will
> > > use another patch specifically to solve it. Is that okay?
> >
> >
> > If the second patch only consists in casting, I would not use another
> > patch since the patch 2 would fix something introduced in patch 1.
> >
> > But if patch 2 is more complicated,  it may make sense to do as you
> > suggest, the goal is to merge patch 1 asap.
>
> Regarding patch 2, I executed "make & make install" for sparse of the
> riscv arch. I "git cloned" from
> https://github.com/ConchuOD/sparse.git.
> Then when compiling the kernel, the following error was reported:
>
> cd /data00/cyh/linux-next/
> make defconfig
> cp .config build-riscv64/
>
> make O=build-riscv64/ C=1 W=1 arch/riscv/kernel/ drivers/acpi/
> drivers/mailbox/ -j
> make[1]: Entering directory '/data00/cyh/linux-next/build-riscv64'
>   GEN     Makefile
>   CC      scripts/mod/empty.o
>   CC      scripts/mod/devicetable-offsets.s
>   CHECK   ../scripts/mod/empty.c
> invalid argument to '-march': '_zicsr_zifencei'
>
> make[3]: *** [../scripts/Makefile.build:229: scripts/mod/empty.o] Error 1
> make[3]: *** Deleting file 'scripts/mod/empty.o'
> make[3]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
> make[2]: *** [/data00/cyh/linux-next/Makefile:1215: prepare0] Error 2
> make[1]: *** [/data00/cyh/linux-next/Makefile:224: __sub-make] Error 2
>
> Do you know the solution?

In case you did not find the solution yet, I would say that your
toolchain is too old.

Let me know if I can help,

Thanks,

Alex

>
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Alex
> >
> >
> > >
> > >> Thanks,
> > >>
> > >> Alex
> > >>
> > >>
> > > Thanks,
> > > Yunhui
>
> Thanks,
> Yunhui