The backtrace handler terminates when it sees a NULL caller address, but the powerpc stack setup does not keep such a NULL caller frame at the start of the stack. This happens to work on pseries because the memory at 0 is mapped and it contains 0 at the location of the return address pointer if it were a stack frame. But this is fragile, and does not work with powernv where address 0 contains firmware instructions. Use the existing dummy frame on stack as the NULL caller, and create a new frame on stack for the entry code. Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@xxxxxxxxx> --- powerpc/cstart64.S | 12 ++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/powerpc/cstart64.S b/powerpc/cstart64.S index e18ae9a22..14ab0c6c8 100644 --- a/powerpc/cstart64.S +++ b/powerpc/cstart64.S @@ -46,8 +46,16 @@ start: add r1, r1, r31 add r2, r2, r31 + /* Zero backpointers in initial stack frame so backtrace() stops */ + li r0,0 + std r0,0(r1) + std r0,16(r1) + + /* Create entry frame */ + stdu r1,-INT_FRAME_SIZE(r1) + /* save DTB pointer */ - std r3, 56(r1) + SAVE_GPR(3,r1) /* * Call relocate. relocate is C code, but careful to not use @@ -101,7 +109,7 @@ start: stw r4, 0(r3) /* complete setup */ -1: ld r3, 56(r1) +1: REST_GPR(3, r1) bl setup /* run the test */ -- 2.42.0
