Message ID | 20180814113633.GE28664@arm.com (mailing list archive) |
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State | New, archived |
Headers | show |
Series | [GIT,PULL] arm64: updates for 4.19 | expand |
On Tue, Aug 14, 2018 at 4:36 AM, Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> wrote: > > Please pull these arm64 updates for 4.19. Details in the tag, but please be > aware that we've pulled in the x86/mm branch from -tip so that we can make > use of the core ioremap changes which allow us to put down huge mappings > in the vmalloc area without screwing up the TLB. Much of the positive > diffstat is because of the rseq selftest for arm64. > > There is a trivial conflict in arch/arm64/Makefile with your tree, since > we effectively rewrote a fix that was merged in -rc5 [96f95a17c1cf]. The > correct resolution is therefore to prefer the code using ld-option, which > is what we have here. We also ran into a couple of trivial conflicts that > were resolved in -next with the KVM and EFI trees. > Hey Will, So I noticed issues booting Linus' master on the HiKey960 board I have today (something hangs early in boot before I get any serial output), and isolated the issue down to your branch here. It seems to be coming from 693350a79980 ("arm64: insn: Don't fallback on nosync path for general insn patching"), and reverting that change resolves the issue for me. If you have any suggestions for alternative fixes or things to try, please let me know. thanks -john
Hi John, On Wed, Aug 15, 2018 at 04:55:15PM -0700, John Stultz wrote: > On Tue, Aug 14, 2018 at 4:36 AM, Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> wrote: > > > > Please pull these arm64 updates for 4.19. Details in the tag, but please be > > aware that we've pulled in the x86/mm branch from -tip so that we can make > > use of the core ioremap changes which allow us to put down huge mappings > > in the vmalloc area without screwing up the TLB. Much of the positive > > diffstat is because of the rseq selftest for arm64. > > > > There is a trivial conflict in arch/arm64/Makefile with your tree, since > > we effectively rewrote a fix that was merged in -rc5 [96f95a17c1cf]. The > > correct resolution is therefore to prefer the code using ld-option, which > > is what we have here. We also ran into a couple of trivial conflicts that > > were resolved in -next with the KVM and EFI trees. > > > > Hey Will, > So I noticed issues booting Linus' master on the HiKey960 board I > have today (something hangs early in boot before I get any serial > output), and isolated the issue down to your branch here. > > It seems to be coming from 693350a79980 ("arm64: insn: Don't fallback > on nosync path for general insn patching"), and reverting that change > resolves the issue for me. > > If you have any suggestions for alternative fixes or things to try, > please let me know. Hmm, sorry about that. It's also just been reported on linux-arm-kernel[1], and they have a backtrace, so I'll take a look today. Cheers, Will [1] http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2018-August/596961.html