On Fri, Jun 15, 2018 at 09:57:54AM +0200, Maxime Ripard wrote: > On Thu, Jun 14, 2018 at 09:36:59PM +0200, Corentin Labbe wrote: > > Running a qemu emulated cubieboard with sun4i-ss driver enabled led to a never > > ending boot. > > This is due to sun4i-ss deadlocked and taking all cpu in an infinite loop. > > Since the crypto hardware is not implemented, all registers are read as 0. > > So sun4i-ss will never progress in any operations. (TX_CNT being always 0) > > > > The first idea is to add a "TX_CNT always zero timeout" but this made cipher/hash loops > > more complex and prevent a case that never happen on real hardware. > > > > The best way to fix is to check at probe time if we run on a virtual > > machine with hardware emulated but non-implemented and prevent > > sun4i-ss to be loaded in that case. > > Letting sun4i-ss to load is useless anyway since all crypto algorithm will be > > disabled since they will fail crypto selftests. > > > > Tested-on: qemu-cubieboard > > Tested-on: cubieboard2 > > > > Signed-off-by: Corentin Labbe <clabbe.montjoie@xxxxxxxxx> > > --- > > drivers/crypto/sunxi-ss/sun4i-ss-core.c | 10 ++++++++++ > > 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+) > > > > diff --git a/drivers/crypto/sunxi-ss/sun4i-ss-core.c b/drivers/crypto/sunxi-ss/sun4i-ss-core.c > > index a81d89b3b7d8..a178e80adcf3 100644 > > --- a/drivers/crypto/sunxi-ss/sun4i-ss-core.c > > +++ b/drivers/crypto/sunxi-ss/sun4i-ss-core.c > > @@ -341,9 +341,18 @@ static int sun4i_ss_probe(struct platform_device *pdev) > > * I expect to be a sort of Security System Revision number. > > * Since the A80 seems to have an other version of SS > > * this info could be useful > > + * Detect virtual machine with non-implemented hardware > > + * (qemu-cubieboard) by checking the register value after a write to it. > > + * On non-implemented hardware, all registers are read as 0. > > + * On real hardware we should have a value > 0. > > */ > > writel(SS_ENABLED, ss->base + SS_CTL); > > v = readl(ss->base + SS_CTL); > > + if (!v) { > > + dev_err(&pdev->dev, "Qemu with non-implemented SS detected.\n"); > > + err = -ENODEV; > > + goto error_rst; > > + } > > This is wrong way to tackle the issue. There's multiple reason why > this could happen (for example the device not being clocked, or > maintained in reset). There's nothing specific about qemu here, and > the fundamental issue isn't that the device isn't functional in qemu, > it's that qemu lies about which hardware it can emulate in the DT it > passes to the kernel. > > There's no way this can scale, alone from the fact that qemu should > patch the DT according to what it can do. Not trying to chase after > each and every device that is broken in qemu. > > NAK. > My fix detect also when the device is badly clocked. So since it could fix problem unrelated to qemu, I will send a V2 with updated comment. Regards