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SubjectRe: N900 v3.19-rc5 arm atags_to_fdt.c is broken
* Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@gmail.com> [150126 08:26]:
> On Monday 26 January 2015 17:14:55 Tony Lindgren wrote:
> > * Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@gmail.com> [150123 14:39]:
> > > On Friday 23 January 2015 22:39:55 Pali Rohár wrote:
> > > > Hello,
> > > >
> > > > when I boot zImage with appended DT n900 in qemu
> > > > fdt_open_into() function called from file
> > > > arch/arm/boot/compressed/atags_to_fdt.c (in function
> > > > atags_to_fdt) always returns -FDT_ERR_NOSPACE.
> > > >
> > > > It means that all ATAGS (including cmdline arguments)
> > > > passed by bootloader are ignored.
> > > >
> > > > On real n900 device I see that booted DT version also
> > > > ignore cmdline arguments from bootloader. I cannot debug
> > > > decompress code on real device, but I think it is same
> > > > problem as in qemu.
> > >
> > > Looks like this quick patch is fixing above problem:
> > >
> > > diff --git a/arch/arm/boot/compressed/head.S
> > > b/arch/arm/boot/compressed/head.S index 68be901..4a7d75b
> > > 100644
> > > --- a/arch/arm/boot/compressed/head.S
> > > +++ b/arch/arm/boot/compressed/head.S
> > > @@ -268,7 +268,7 @@ restart: adr r0, LC0
> > >
> > > * area. No GOT fixup has occurred yet, but none of
> the
> > > * code we're about to call uses any global variable.
> > >
> > > */
> > >
> > > - add sp, sp, #0x10000
> > > + add sp, sp, #0x20000
> > >
> > > stmfd sp!, {r0-r3, ip, lr}
> > > mov r0, r8
> > > mov r1, r6
> > >
> > > @@ -289,7 +289,7 @@ restart: adr r0, LC0
> > >
> > > bleq atags_to_fdt
> > >
> > > ldmfd sp!, {r0-r3, ip, lr}
> > >
> > > - sub sp, sp, #0x10000
> > > + sub sp, sp, #0x20000
> > >
> > > #endif
> > >
> > > mov r8, r6 @ use the appended device tree
> >
> > Nico, got any ideas about this one? This seems like a
> > regression somewhere..
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Tony
>
> $ du -b arch/arm/boot/dts/omap3-n900.dtb
> 70212 arch/arm/boot/dts/omap3-n900.dtb
>
> $ echo $((0x10000))
> 65536
>
> I would say, problem is because omap3-n900 binary DT is too large

OK if that's the case, then your patch makes sense to me. It also
seems we can have the temporary stack be larger than the initial
stack just for atags_to_fdt.

Regards,

Tony


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