On Tue, 2010-04-13 at 18:16 +0100, Ralf Baechle wrote: > On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 09:34:38AM +0200, Thomas Bogendoerfer wrote: > > > On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 01:03:54PM +0800, Wu Zhangjin wrote: > > > This patch have broken the support to the MIPS variants whose > > > cpu_has_mips_r2 is 0 for the CAC_BASE and CKSEG0 is completely different > > > in these MIPSs. > > > > I've checked R4k and R10k manulas and the exception base is at CKSEG0, so > > about CPU we are talking ? And wouldn't it make for senso to have > > an extra define for the exception base then ? > > C0_ebase's design was a short-sigthed only considering 32-bit processors. > So the exception base is in CKSEG0 on every 64-bit processor, be it R2 or > older. So yes, there is a bug as I've verified by testing but the patch > is unfortunately incorrect. Just debugged it via PMON: loaded the kernel and used "g console=tty root=/dev/hda5 init=/bin/bash" to start the kernel, there was a bad address exception. the kernel stopped at: Exception Cause=address error on store, SR=0x24000002, PC=0x8020526c ... BADVADDR=0x97ffffff80000100, ENTHI=0xfffffe000 ... ... __copy_user+0x48 ... sd t0,0(a0) # addr = 0x80000100 rt=0x401a8000 Seems the a0 argument of __copy_user is _bad_. And tried to set a break pointer to trap_init() and per_cpu_trap_init(), and then cpu_cache_init() ... r4k_cache_init() and at last found that set_uncached_handler(0x100, &except_vec2_generic, 0x80); /* * Install uncached CPU exception handler. * This is suitable only for the cache error exception which is the only * exception handler that is being run uncached. */ void __cpuinit set_uncached_handler(unsigned long offset, void *addr, unsigned long size) { #ifdef CONFIG_32BIT unsigned long uncached_ebase = KSEG1ADDR(ebase); #endif #ifdef CONFIG_64BIT unsigned long uncached_ebase = TO_UNCAC(ebase); #endif if (!addr) panic(panic_null_cerr); memcpy((void *)(uncached_ebase + offset), addr, size); } memcpy() called __copy_user... and the a0 is uncached_ebase + offset, and uncached_ebase is defined by TO_UNCAC: #define TO_UNCAC(x) (UNCAC_BASE | ((x) & TO_PHYS_MASK)) #define TO_PHYS_MASK _CONST64_(0x07ffffffffffffff) #define UNCAC_BASE _AC(0x9000000000000000, UL) If using CKSEG0 as the ebase, CKSEG0 is defined as 0xffffffff80000000, then we get the address: 0x97ffffff80000100, is this address ok? And before, we have used the CAC_BASE as the ebase, the CAC_BASE is defined as following: #ifndef CAC_BASE #ifdef CONFIG_DMA_NONCOHERENT #define CAC_BASE _AC(0x9800000000000000, UL) #else #define CAC_BASE _AC(0xa800000000000000, UL) #endif #endif So, before, the uncached_base is 0x9000000000000000. Regards, Wu Zhangjin