Re: next: fuloong2e qemu boot failure due to 'MIPS: Loongson: AddLoongson-3A R2 basic support'

From: Guenter Roeck
Date: Fri May 13 2016 - 09:43:04 EST


On 05/12/2016 10:49 PM, Huacai Chen wrote:
I'll send a patch, but it seems be ignored by maintainer.
https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/13136/


It is marked as accepted, so it should be in Ralf's queue.

Thanks,
Guenter

Huacai

On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 11:46 AM, Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 04/19/2016 10:41 PM, Huacai Chen wrote:

This is a kernel bug, I'll send a patch.


Did you ever send a patch to fix this problem ? It is still broken in
next-20160512.

Guenter


Huacai

On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 12:43 PM, Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

On 04/19/2016 08:37 PM, éåæ wrote:


Hi,

Could you please remove the line "#define cpu_hwrena_impl_bits
0xc0000000" in
arch/mips/include/asm/mach-loongson64/cpu-feature-overrides.h
and try again?Thanks.


That fixes the problem.

Does this need to be addressed in qemu or in the Linux kernel ?

Thanks,
Guenter


Huacai

------------------ Original ------------------
From: "Guenter Roeck"<linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx>;
Date: Wed, Apr 20, 2016 10:54 AM
To: "Huacai Chen"<chenhc@xxxxxxxxxx>;
Cc: "Ralf Baechle"<ralf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>;
"linux-mips"<linux-mips@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>;
"linux-next"<linux-next@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>;
"linux-kernel"<linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>;
Subject: next: fuloong2e qemu boot failure due to 'MIPS: Loongson:
AddLoongson-3A R2 basic support'

Hi,

qemu fails to boot in -next for machine fulong2e with configuration
fuloong2e_defconfig. Bisect points to commit 'MIPS: Loongson: Add
Loongson-3A R2 basic support'. qemu hangs in boot, after displaying
"Inode-cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 3, 131072 bytes)".

Bisect log is attached.

Guenter

---
# bad: [1bd7a2081d2c7b096f75aa934658e404ccaba5fd] Add linux-next
specific
files for 20160418
# good: [bf16200689118d19de1b8d2a3c314fc21f5dc7bb] Linux 4.6-rc3
git bisect start 'HEAD' 'v4.6-rc3'
# bad: [493ac92ff65ec4c4cd4c43870e778760a012951d] Merge remote-tracking
branch 'ipvs-next/master'
git bisect bad 493ac92ff65ec4c4cd4c43870e778760a012951d
# bad: [20ca3ae9c517eee9b2f1bd0fb2a06e2d14153792] Merge remote-tracking
branch 'btrfs-kdave/for-next'
git bisect bad 20ca3ae9c517eee9b2f1bd0fb2a06e2d14153792
# good: [c454e65fb9ade11d0f84718d06a6888e2c92804d] Merge remote-tracking
branch 'omap/for-next'
git bisect good c454e65fb9ade11d0f84718d06a6888e2c92804d
# good: [6f5c70fb9b4fc0534157bfa40cea9b402e6f2506] Merge remote-tracking
branch 'microblaze/next'
git bisect good 6f5c70fb9b4fc0534157bfa40cea9b402e6f2506
# bad: [7f053cd68fd14243c8f202b4086d7dd75c409e6f] MIPS: Loongson-3:
Introduce CONFIG_LOONGSON3_ENHANCEMENT
git bisect bad 7f053cd68fd14243c8f202b4086d7dd75c409e6f
# good: [e9aacdd7f0b66c4ace17e5950c48e7cc61a253c8] MIPS: Allow RIXI to
be
used on non-R2 or R6 cores
git bisect good e9aacdd7f0b66c4ace17e5950c48e7cc61a253c8
# good: [d1e8b9a8dc6c7fa9add5dfa7083e035ce037e56d] MAINTAINERS: add
Loongson1 architecture entry
git bisect good d1e8b9a8dc6c7fa9add5dfa7083e035ce037e56d
# good: [13ff6275bb389c3669082d3ef8483592a31eb0ea] MIPS: Fix siginfo.h
to
use strict posix types
git bisect good 13ff6275bb389c3669082d3ef8483592a31eb0ea
# good: [66e74bdd51e617023fa2e79a807b704fb3eed8aa] MIPS: Enable ptrace
hw
watchpoints on MIPS R6
git bisect good 66e74bdd51e617023fa2e79a807b704fb3eed8aa
# good: [f7cabc2dac8adf5986dbc700584bc3b8fe493d4d] MIPS: Loongson-3:
Adjust irq dispatch to speedup processing
git bisect good f7cabc2dac8adf5986dbc700584bc3b8fe493d4d
# bad: [4978c8477e96fb9e9d870d8f42328dcabf1a65e9] MIPS: Loongson-3: Set
cache flush handlers to cache_noop
git bisect bad 4978c8477e96fb9e9d870d8f42328dcabf1a65e9
# bad: [04a35922c1dac1b4864b8b366a37474e9e51d8c0] MIPS: Loongson: Add
Loongson-3A R2 basic support
git bisect bad 04a35922c1dac1b4864b8b366a37474e9e51d8c0
# first bad commit: [04a35922c1dac1b4864b8b366a37474e9e51d8c0] MIPS:
Loongson: Add Loongson-3A R2 basic support