linux-stable/arch/sparc/include/asm/setup.h
David S. Miller ef3e035c3a sparc64: Fix register corruption in top-most kernel stack frame during boot.
Meelis Roos reported that kernels built with gcc-4.9 do not boot, we
eventually narrowed this down to only impacting machines using
UltraSPARC-III and derivitive cpus.

The crash happens right when the first user process is spawned:

[   54.451346] Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! exitcode=0x00000004
[   54.451346]
[   54.571516] CPU: 1 PID: 1 Comm: init Not tainted 3.16.0-rc2-00211-gd7933ab #96
[   54.666431] Call Trace:
[   54.698453]  [0000000000762f8c] panic+0xb0/0x224
[   54.759071]  [000000000045cf68] do_exit+0x948/0x960
[   54.823123]  [000000000042cbc0] fault_in_user_windows+0xe0/0x100
[   54.902036]  [0000000000404ad0] __handle_user_windows+0x0/0x10
[   54.978662] Press Stop-A (L1-A) to return to the boot prom
[   55.050713] ---[ end Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! exitcode=0x00000004

Further investigation showed that compiling only per_cpu_patch() with
an older compiler fixes the boot.

Detailed analysis showed that the function is not being miscompiled by
gcc-4.9, but it is using a different register allocation ordering.

With the gcc-4.9 compiled function, something during the code patching
causes some of the %i* input registers to get corrupted.  Perhaps
we have a TLB miss path into the firmware that is deep enough to
cause a register window spill and subsequent restore when we get
back from the TLB miss trap.

Let's plug this up by doing two things:

1) Stop using the firmware stack for client interface calls into
   the firmware.  Just use the kernel's stack.

2) As soon as we can, call into a new function "start_early_boot()"
   to put a one-register-window buffer between the firmware's
   deepest stack frame and the top-most initial kernel one.

Reported-by: Meelis Roos <mroos@linux.ee>
Tested-by: Meelis Roos <mroos@linux.ee>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-10-24 09:52:49 -07:00

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C

/*
* Just a place holder.
*/
#ifndef _SPARC_SETUP_H
#define _SPARC_SETUP_H
#include <linux/interrupt.h>
#include <uapi/asm/setup.h>
extern char reboot_command[];
#ifdef CONFIG_SPARC32
/* The CPU that was used for booting
* Only sun4d + leon may have boot_cpu_id != 0
*/
extern unsigned char boot_cpu_id;
extern unsigned long empty_zero_page;
extern int serial_console;
static inline int con_is_present(void)
{
return serial_console ? 0 : 1;
}
/* from irq_32.c */
extern volatile unsigned char *fdc_status;
extern char *pdma_vaddr;
extern unsigned long pdma_size;
extern volatile int doing_pdma;
/* This is software state */
extern char *pdma_base;
extern unsigned long pdma_areasize;
int sparc_floppy_request_irq(unsigned int irq, irq_handler_t irq_handler);
/* setup_32.c */
extern unsigned long cmdline_memory_size;
/* devices.c */
void __init device_scan(void);
/* unaligned_32.c */
unsigned long safe_compute_effective_address(struct pt_regs *, unsigned int);
#endif
#ifdef CONFIG_SPARC64
void __init start_early_boot(void);
/* unaligned_64.c */
int handle_ldf_stq(u32 insn, struct pt_regs *regs);
void handle_ld_nf(u32 insn, struct pt_regs *regs);
/* init_64.c */
extern atomic_t dcpage_flushes;
extern atomic_t dcpage_flushes_xcall;
extern int sysctl_tsb_ratio;
#endif
void sun_do_break(void);
extern int stop_a_enabled;
extern int scons_pwroff;
#endif /* _SPARC_SETUP_H */