Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 28 Dec 2013 13:05:08 -0800 | Subject | Re: [PATCH] powerpc: Fix alignment of secondary cpu spin vars | From | Olof Johansson <> |
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On Sat, Dec 28, 2013 at 1:01 PM, Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net> wrote: > Commit 5c0484e25ec0 ('powerpc: Endian safe trampoline') resulted in > losing proper alignment of the spinlock variables used when booting > secondary CPUs, causing some quite odd issues with failing to boot on > PA Semi-based systems. > > This showed itself on ppc64_defconfig, but not on pasemi_defconfig, > so it had gone unnoticed when I initially tested the LE patch set. > > Fix is to add explicit alignment instead of relying on good luck. :) > > Fixes: 5c0484e25ec0 ('powerpc: Endian safe trampoline') > Reported-by: Christian Zigotzky <chzigotzky@xenosoft.de> > Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=67811 > Signed-off-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
Sigh, it's not this after all. I did a clean build with this applied and still see failures. Something else is (also?) going on here.
-Olof
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