On 3/8/21 1:24 AM, Thomas Bogendoerfer wrote: > BMIPS is one of the few platforms that do change the exception base. > After commit 2dcb39645441 ("memblock: do not start bottom-up allocations > with kernel_end") we started seeing BMIPS boards fail to boot with the > built-in FDT being corrupted. > > Before the cited commit, early allocations would be in the [kernel_end, > RAM_END] range, but after commit they would be within [RAM_START + > PAGE_SIZE, RAM_END]. > > The custom exception base handler that is installed by > bmips_ebase_setup() done for BMIPS5000 CPUs ends-up trampling on the > memory region allocated by unflatten_and_copy_device_tree() thus > corrupting the FDT used by the kernel. > > To fix this, we need to perform an early reservation of the custom > exception space. Additional we reserve the first 4k (1k for R3k) for > either normal exception vector space (legacy CPUs) or special vectors > like cache exceptions. > > Huge thanks to Serge for analysing and proposing a solution to this > issue. > > Fixes: 2dcb39645441 ("memblock: do not start bottom-up allocations with kernel_end") > Reported-by: Kamal Dasu <kdasu.kdev@xxxxxxxxx> > Debugged-by: Serge Semin <Sergey.Semin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > --- > Changes in v3: > - always reserve the first 4k for all CPUs (1k for R3k) > > Changes in v2: > - do only memblock reservation in reserve_exception_space() > - reserve 0..0x400 for all CPUs without ebase register and > to addtional reserve_exception_space for BMIPS CPUs Thomas, do you mind CC'ing me for subsequent versions so you can get a chance to have a Tested-by tag? Thank you! Tested-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@xxxxxxxxx> -- Florian