Excerpts from Christian Zigotzky's message of May 19, 2021 9:52 pm:
> On 19 May 2021 at 09:57 am, Nicholas Piggin wrote:
>> Excerpts from Christian Zigotzky's message of May 17, 2021 7:42 pm:
>>> On 17 May 2021 at 09:42am, Nicholas Piggin wrote:
>>>> Excerpts from Christian Zigotzky's message of May 15, 2021 11:46 pm:
>>>>> I tried it but it doesn't solve the issue. The uImage works without
>>>>> KVM
>>>>> HV in a virtual e5500 QEMU machine.
>>>> Any more progress with this? I would say that bisect might have just
>>>> been a bit unstable and maybe by chance some things did not crash so
>>>> it's pointing to the wrong patch.
>>>>
>>>> Upstream merge of powerpc-5.13-1 was good and powerpc-5.13-2 was bad?
>>>>
>>>> Between that looks like some KVM MMU rework. You could try the patch
>>>> before this one b1c5356e873c ("KVM: PPC: Convert to the gfn-based MMU
>>>> notifier callbacks"). That won't revert cleanly so just try run the
>>>> tree at that point. If it works, test the patch and see if it fails.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Nick
>>> Hi Nick,
>>>
>>> Thanks a lot for your answer. Yes, there is a little bit of progress.
>>> The RC2 of kernel 5.13 successfully boots with -smp 3 in a virtual e5500
>>> QEMU machine.
>>> -smp 4 doesn't work anymore since the PowerPC updates 5.13-2. I used
>>> -smp 4 before 5.13 because my FSL P5040 machine has 4 cores.
>>>
>>> Could you please post a patch for reverting the commit before
>>> b1c5356e873c ("KVM: PPC: Convert to the gfn-based MMU notifier callbacks")?
>> You could `git checkout b1c5356e873c~1`
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Nick
> Hi Nick,
>
> Thanks for your answer. I checked out the commit b1c5356e873c~1 (HEAD is
> now at d923ff258423 KVM: MIPS/MMU: Convert to the gfn-based MMU notifier
> callbacks).
> The kernel boots with '-smp 4' without any problems.
> After that I patched with the probable first bad commit (KVM: PPC:
> Convert to the gfn-based MMU notifier callbacks). The kernel also boots
> with this patch. That means, this isn't the first bad commit.
> Further information:
> https://forum.hyperion-entertainment.com/viewtopic.php?p=53267#p53267
Hmm, okay that probably rules out those notifier changes then.
Can you remind me were you able to rule these out as suspects?
8f6cc75a97d1 powerpc: move norestart trap flag to bit 0
8dc7f0229b78 powerpc: remove partial register save logic
c45ba4f44f6b powerpc: clean up do_page_fault
d738ee8d56de powerpc/64e/interrupt: handle bad_page_fault in C
ceff77efa4f8 powerpc/64e/interrupt: Use new interrupt context tracking scheme
097157e16cf8 powerpc/64e/interrupt: reconcile irq soft-mask state in C
3db8aa10de9a powerpc/64e/interrupt: NMI save irq soft-mask state in C
0c2472de23ae powerpc/64e/interrupt: use new interrupt return
dc6231821a14 powerpc/interrupt: update common interrupt code for
4228b2c3d20e powerpc/64e/interrupt: always save nvgprs on interrupt
5a5a893c4ad8 powerpc/syscall: switch user_exit_irqoff and trace_hardirqs_off order
Thanks,
Nick
