Messages in this thread | | | From | Michael Ellerman <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.15-mm4 failure on power5 | Date | Tue, 17 Jan 2006 00:00:54 +1100 |
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On Mon, 16 Jan 2006 18:05, Andrew Morton wrote: > "Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@us.ibm.com> wrote: > > On my power5 partition, 2.6.15-mm4 hangs on boot > > It might be worth reverting the changes to arch/powerpc/mm/hash_utils_64.c, > see if that unbreaks it. > > - base = lmb.memory.region[i].base + KERNELBASE; > + base = (unsigned long)__va(lmb.memory.region[i].base);
You can try it, but if that fixes the problem I'll buy a sombrero and then eat it.
> The nice comment in page.h: > > * KERNELBASE is the virtual address of the start of the kernel, it's often > * the same as PAGE_OFFSET, but _might not be_. > * > * The kdump dump kernel is one example where KERNELBASE != PAGE_OFFSET. > * > * To get a physical address from a virtual one you subtract PAGE_OFFSET, > * _not_ KERNELBASE. > > Tells us that was not an equivalent transformation.
True, not equivalent in all cases, but correct. For non-kdump kernels (which I assume this is) KERNELBASE == PAGE_OFFSET, and for a kdump kernel that code wants to use PAGE_OFFSET, not KERNELBASE.
Try enabling early debugging (see arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_64.c) and then turning on DEBUG in hash_utils_64.c, setup_64.c etc.
cheers
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