Boot failure regression on 6.0.10 stable kernel on iMX7

Boot failure regression on 6.0.10 stable kernel on iMX7

[Francesco Dolcini]

Hello Marek,
it looks like commit 753395ea1e45 ("ARM: dts: imx7: Fix NAND controller
size-cells"), that was backported to stable 6.0.10, introduce a boot
regression on colibri-imx7, at least.

What I get is

[    0.000000] Booting Linux on physical CPU 0x0
[    0.000000] Linux version 6.0.10 (francesco@francesco-nb) (arm-linux-gnueabihf-gcc (Ubuntu 9.4.0-1ubuntu1~20.04.1) 9.
4.0, GNU ld (GNU Binutils for Ubuntu) 2.34) #36 SMP Wed Nov 30 14:07:15 CET 2022
...
[    4.407499] gpmi-nand: error parsing ofpart partition /soc/nand-controller@33002000/partition@0 (/soc/nand-controller
@33002000)
[    4.438401] gpmi-nand 33002000.nand-controller: driver registered.
...
[    5.933906] VFS: Cannot open root device "ubi0:rootfs" or unknown-block(0,0): error -19
[    5.946504] Please append a correct "root=" boot option; here are the available partitions:
...

Any idea? I'm not familiar with the gpmi-nand driver and I would just revert it, but
maybe you have a better idea.

Francesco



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Re: Boot failure regression on 6.0.10 stable kernel on iMX7

[Marek Vasut]

On 11/30/22 14:52, Francesco Dolcini wrote:
> Hello Marek,

Hi,

> it looks like commit 753395ea1e45 ("ARM: dts: imx7: Fix NAND controller
> size-cells"), that was backported to stable 6.0.10, introduce a boot
> regression on colibri-imx7, at least.
> 
> What I get is
> 
> [    0.000000] Booting Linux on physical CPU 0x0
> [    0.000000] Linux version 6.0.10 (francesco@francesco-nb) (arm-linux-gnueabihf-gcc (Ubuntu 9.4.0-1ubuntu1~20.04.1) 9.
> 4.0, GNU ld (GNU Binutils for Ubuntu) 2.34) #36 SMP Wed Nov 30 14:07:15 CET 2022
> ...
> [    4.407499] gpmi-nand: error parsing ofpart partition /soc/nand-controller@33002000/partition@0 (/soc/nand-controller
> @33002000)
> [    4.438401] gpmi-nand 33002000.nand-controller: driver registered.
> ...
> [    5.933906] VFS: Cannot open root device "ubi0:rootfs" or unknown-block(0,0): error -19
> [    5.946504] Please append a correct "root=" boot option; here are the available partitions:
> ...
> 
> Any idea? I'm not familiar with the gpmi-nand driver and I would just revert it, but
> maybe you have a better idea.

Can you share the relevant snippet of your nand controller DT node ? 
Probably up to first partition is enough. I suspect you need to fill in 
the correct address-cells/size-cells there, which might be currently 
missing in your DT and worked by chance.

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Re: Boot failure regression on 6.0.10 stable kernel on iMX7

[Francesco Dolcini]

On Wed, Nov 30, 2022 at 03:41:13PM +0100, Marek Vasut wrote:
> On 11/30/22 14:52, Francesco Dolcini wrote:
> > [    0.000000] Booting Linux on physical CPU 0x0
> > [    0.000000] Linux version 6.0.10 (francesco@francesco-nb) (arm-linux-gnueabihf-gcc (Ubuntu 9.4.0-1ubuntu1~20.04.1) 9.
> > 4.0, GNU ld (GNU Binutils for Ubuntu) 2.34) #36 SMP Wed Nov 30 14:07:15 CET 2022
> > ...
> > [    4.407499] gpmi-nand: error parsing ofpart partition /soc/nand-controller@33002000/partition@0 (/soc/nand-controller
> > @33002000)
> > [    4.438401] gpmi-nand 33002000.nand-controller: driver registered.
> > ...
> > [    5.933906] VFS: Cannot open root device "ubi0:rootfs" or unknown-block(0,0): error -19
> > [    5.946504] Please append a correct "root=" boot option; here are the available partitions:
> > ...
> > 
> > Any idea? I'm not familiar with the gpmi-nand driver and I would just revert it, but
> > maybe you have a better idea.
> 
> Can you share the relevant snippet of your nand controller DT node ?

We just have 

from imx7-colibri.dtsi,

  &gpmi {
  	fsl,use-minimum-ecc;
  	nand-ecc-mode = "hw";
  	nand-on-flash-bbt;
  	pinctrl-names = "default";
  	pinctrl-0 = <&pinctrl_gpmi_nand>;
  };

OF partition are created by U-Boot from
  mtdparts=mtdparts=gpmi-nand:512k(mx7-bcb),1536k(u-boot1)ro,1536k(u-boot2)ro,512k(u-boot-env),-(ubi)
env variables calling fdt_fixup_mtdparts from colibri_imx7.c

Everything is available in the upstream Linux/U-Boot git, no downstream
repo of any sort.

> Probably up to first partition is enough. I suspect you need to fill in the
> correct address-cells/size-cells there, which might be currently missing in
> your DT and worked by chance.

This is generated by U-Boot, I would need to dump what he did generate
from the standard fdt_fixup_mtdparts(). I will try to do it tomorrow
unless what I wrote here is already enough to understand what's going
on.

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Re: Boot failure regression on 6.0.10 stable kernel on iMX7

[Marek Vasut]

On 11/30/22 21:51, Francesco Dolcini wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 30, 2022 at 03:41:13PM +0100, Marek Vasut wrote:
>> On 11/30/22 14:52, Francesco Dolcini wrote:
>>> [    0.000000] Booting Linux on physical CPU 0x0
>>> [    0.000000] Linux version 6.0.10 (francesco@francesco-nb) (arm-linux-gnueabihf-gcc (Ubuntu 9.4.0-1ubuntu1~20.04.1) 9.
>>> 4.0, GNU ld (GNU Binutils for Ubuntu) 2.34) #36 SMP Wed Nov 30 14:07:15 CET 2022
>>> ...
>>> [    4.407499] gpmi-nand: error parsing ofpart partition /soc/nand-controller@33002000/partition@0 (/soc/nand-controller
>>> @33002000)
>>> [    4.438401] gpmi-nand 33002000.nand-controller: driver registered.
>>> ...
>>> [    5.933906] VFS: Cannot open root device "ubi0:rootfs" or unknown-block(0,0): error -19
>>> [    5.946504] Please append a correct "root=" boot option; here are the available partitions:
>>> ...
>>>
>>> Any idea? I'm not familiar with the gpmi-nand driver and I would just revert it, but
>>> maybe you have a better idea.
>>
>> Can you share the relevant snippet of your nand controller DT node ?
> 
> We just have
> 
> from imx7-colibri.dtsi,
> 
>    &gpmi {
>    	fsl,use-minimum-ecc;
>    	nand-ecc-mode = "hw";
>    	nand-on-flash-bbt;
>    	pinctrl-names = "default";
>    	pinctrl-0 = <&pinctrl_gpmi_nand>;
>    };
> 
> OF partition are created by U-Boot from
>    mtdparts=mtdparts=gpmi-nand:512k(mx7-bcb),1536k(u-boot1)ro,1536k(u-boot2)ro,512k(u-boot-env),-(ubi)
> env variables calling fdt_fixup_mtdparts from colibri_imx7.c
> 
> Everything is available in the upstream Linux/U-Boot git, no downstream
> repo of any sort.
> 
>> Probably up to first partition is enough. I suspect you need to fill in the
>> correct address-cells/size-cells there, which might be currently missing in
>> your DT and worked by chance.
> 
> This is generated by U-Boot, I would need to dump what he did generate
> from the standard fdt_fixup_mtdparts(). I will try to do it tomorrow
> unless what I wrote here is already enough to understand what's going
> on.

Oh drat ... I see. It's the u-boot fdt_node_set_part_info() which checks 
the current NAND controller #size-cells and uses that when generating 
MTD partitions 'reg' properties. Since #size-cells is now zero, the reg 
properties would be malformed.

Now, what I am unsure is whether the right fix is to update mx7 colibri 
DT and include &gpmi { #size-cells=<1>; }; , or , revert this patch. The 
former fixes the problem for colibri and retains the correct 
#size-cells=<0> behavior for any other board which does not specify MTD 
partitions in the GPMI NAND node. The later also covers boards which we 
don't know about which might also use generated MTD partitions in DT 
using fdt_fixup_mtdparts() in U-Boot, but I am not convinced that is 
correct.

So, would you be OK with fixing up the colibri mx7 DT with #size-cells=<1> ?

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Re: Boot failure regression on 6.0.10 stable kernel on iMX7

[Francesco Dolcini]

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On Wed, Nov 30, 2022 at 11:59:04PM +0100, Marek Vasut wrote:
> On 11/30/22 21:51, Francesco Dolcini wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 30, 2022 at 03:41:13PM +0100, Marek Vasut wrote:
> > > On 11/30/22 14:52, Francesco Dolcini wrote:
> > > > [    0.000000] Booting Linux on physical CPU 0x0
> > > > [    0.000000] Linux version 6.0.10 (francesco@francesco-nb) (arm-linux-gnueabihf-gcc (Ubuntu 9.4.0-1ubuntu1~20.04.1) 9.
> > > > 4.0, GNU ld (GNU Binutils for Ubuntu) 2.34) #36 SMP Wed Nov 30 14:07:15 CET 2022
> > > > ...
> > > > [    4.407499] gpmi-nand: error parsing ofpart partition /soc/nand-controller@33002000/partition@0 (/soc/nand-controller
> > > > @33002000)
> > > > [    4.438401] gpmi-nand 33002000.nand-controller: driver registered.
> > > > ...
> > > > [    5.933906] VFS: Cannot open root device "ubi0:rootfs" or unknown-block(0,0): error -19
> > > > [    5.946504] Please append a correct "root=" boot option; here are the available partitions:
> > > > ...
> > > > 
> > > > Any idea? I'm not familiar with the gpmi-nand driver and I would just revert it, but
> > > > maybe you have a better idea.
> > > 
> > > Can you share the relevant snippet of your nand controller DT node ?
> > 
> > We just have
> > 
> > from imx7-colibri.dtsi,
> > 
> >    &gpmi {
> >    	fsl,use-minimum-ecc;
> >    	nand-ecc-mode = "hw";
> >    	nand-on-flash-bbt;
> >    	pinctrl-names = "default";
> >    	pinctrl-0 = <&pinctrl_gpmi_nand>;
> >    };
> > 
> > OF partition are created by U-Boot from
> >    mtdparts=mtdparts=gpmi-nand:512k(mx7-bcb),1536k(u-boot1)ro,1536k(u-boot2)ro,512k(u-boot-env),-(ubi)
> > env variables calling fdt_fixup_mtdparts from colibri_imx7.c
> > 
> > Everything is available in the upstream Linux/U-Boot git, no downstream
> > repo of any sort.
> > 
> > > Probably up to first partition is enough. I suspect you need to fill in the
> > > correct address-cells/size-cells there, which might be currently missing in
> > > your DT and worked by chance.
> > 
> > This is generated by U-Boot, I would need to dump what he did generate
> > from the standard fdt_fixup_mtdparts(). I will try to do it tomorrow
> > unless what I wrote here is already enough to understand what's going
> > on.
> 
> Oh drat ... I see. It's the u-boot fdt_node_set_part_info() which checks the
> current NAND controller #size-cells and uses that when generating MTD
> partitions 'reg' properties. Since #size-cells is now zero, the reg
> properties would be malformed.

I think the issue is slightly different, the u-boot code checks it and
if not set it defaults to #size-cells = <1>. Said that u-boot
never set #size-cells anywhere.

What is failing is ofpart_core.c:parse_fixed_partitions() in Linux with
#size-cells = <0>.


> Now, what I am unsure is whether the right fix is to update mx7 colibri DT
> and include &gpmi { #size-cells=<1>; }; , or , revert this patch. The former
> fixes the problem for colibri and retains the correct #size-cells=<0>
> behavior for any other board which does not specify MTD partitions in the
> GPMI NAND node. The later also covers boards which we don't know about which
> might also use generated MTD partitions in DT using fdt_fixup_mtdparts() in
> U-Boot, but I am not convinced that is correct.
> 
> So, would you be OK with fixing up the colibri mx7 DT with #size-cells=<1> ?

I am also not sure what is the right fix, however I am convinced that
the fix needs to be in Linux, we cannot really break the boot flow.

In a very pragmatic way I could just add the property to colibri-imx7
dtsi, but we are really breaking potential other users of it, anybody
using U-Boot to generate the partitions in the end ... (and the list is
not empty and not just the colibri*).

Would it make any sense to do something like that (untested!) ?

diff --git a/drivers/mtd/parsers/ofpart_core.c b/drivers/mtd/parsers/ofpart_core.c
index 192190c42fc8..fffd60acd926 100644
--- a/drivers/mtd/parsers/ofpart_core.c
+++ b/drivers/mtd/parsers/ofpart_core.c
@@ -122,6 +122,8 @@ static int parse_fixed_partitions(struct mtd_info *master,

                a_cells = of_n_addr_cells(pp);
                s_cells = of_n_size_cells(pp);
+               if (s_cells == 0)
+                       s_cells = 1; // for backward compatibility
                if (len / 4 != a_cells + s_cells) {
                        pr_debug("%s: ofpart partition %pOF (%pOF) error parsing reg property.\n",
                                 master->name, pp,

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Re: Boot failure regression on 6.0.10 stable kernel on iMX7

[Marek Vasut]

On 12/1/22 12:03, Francesco Dolcini wrote:
> + MTD maintainers/list
> 
> On Wed, Nov 30, 2022 at 11:59:04PM +0100, Marek Vasut wrote:
>> On 11/30/22 21:51, Francesco Dolcini wrote:
>>> On Wed, Nov 30, 2022 at 03:41:13PM +0100, Marek Vasut wrote:
>>>> On 11/30/22 14:52, Francesco Dolcini wrote:
>>>>> [    0.000000] Booting Linux on physical CPU 0x0
>>>>> [    0.000000] Linux version 6.0.10 (francesco@francesco-nb) (arm-linux-gnueabihf-gcc (Ubuntu 9.4.0-1ubuntu1~20.04.1) 9.
>>>>> 4.0, GNU ld (GNU Binutils for Ubuntu) 2.34) #36 SMP Wed Nov 30 14:07:15 CET 2022
>>>>> ...
>>>>> [    4.407499] gpmi-nand: error parsing ofpart partition /soc/nand-controller@33002000/partition@0 (/soc/nand-controller
>>>>> @33002000)
>>>>> [    4.438401] gpmi-nand 33002000.nand-controller: driver registered.
>>>>> ...
>>>>> [    5.933906] VFS: Cannot open root device "ubi0:rootfs" or unknown-block(0,0): error -19
>>>>> [    5.946504] Please append a correct "root=" boot option; here are the available partitions:
>>>>> ...
>>>>>
>>>>> Any idea? I'm not familiar with the gpmi-nand driver and I would just revert it, but
>>>>> maybe you have a better idea.
>>>>
>>>> Can you share the relevant snippet of your nand controller DT node ?
>>>
>>> We just have
>>>
>>> from imx7-colibri.dtsi,
>>>
>>>     &gpmi {
>>>     	fsl,use-minimum-ecc;
>>>     	nand-ecc-mode = "hw";
>>>     	nand-on-flash-bbt;
>>>     	pinctrl-names = "default";
>>>     	pinctrl-0 = <&pinctrl_gpmi_nand>;
>>>     };
>>>
>>> OF partition are created by U-Boot from
>>>     mtdparts=mtdparts=gpmi-nand:512k(mx7-bcb),1536k(u-boot1)ro,1536k(u-boot2)ro,512k(u-boot-env),-(ubi)
>>> env variables calling fdt_fixup_mtdparts from colibri_imx7.c
>>>
>>> Everything is available in the upstream Linux/U-Boot git, no downstream
>>> repo of any sort.
>>>
>>>> Probably up to first partition is enough. I suspect you need to fill in the
>>>> correct address-cells/size-cells there, which might be currently missing in
>>>> your DT and worked by chance.
>>>
>>> This is generated by U-Boot, I would need to dump what he did generate
>>> from the standard fdt_fixup_mtdparts(). I will try to do it tomorrow
>>> unless what I wrote here is already enough to understand what's going
>>> on.
>>
>> Oh drat ... I see. It's the u-boot fdt_node_set_part_info() which checks the
>> current NAND controller #size-cells and uses that when generating MTD
>> partitions 'reg' properties. Since #size-cells is now zero, the reg
>> properties would be malformed.
> 
> I think the issue is slightly different, the u-boot code checks it and
> if not set it defaults to #size-cells = <1>. Said that u-boot
> never set #size-cells anywhere.

Which it really should, can you send a patch there too ?

> What is failing is ofpart_core.c:parse_fixed_partitions() in Linux with
> #size-cells = <0>.
> 
> 
>> Now, what I am unsure is whether the right fix is to update mx7 colibri DT
>> and include &gpmi { #size-cells=<1>; }; , or , revert this patch. The former
>> fixes the problem for colibri and retains the correct #size-cells=<0>
>> behavior for any other board which does not specify MTD partitions in the
>> GPMI NAND node. The later also covers boards which we don't know about which
>> might also use generated MTD partitions in DT using fdt_fixup_mtdparts() in
>> U-Boot, but I am not convinced that is correct.
>>
>> So, would you be OK with fixing up the colibri mx7 DT with #size-cells=<1> ?
> 
> I am also not sure what is the right fix, however I am convinced that
> the fix needs to be in Linux, we cannot really break the boot flow.

I agree

> In a very pragmatic way I could just add the property to colibri-imx7
> dtsi, but we are really breaking potential other users of it, anybody
> using U-Boot to generate the partitions in the end ... (and the list is
> not empty and not just the colibri*).

I agree here too

> Would it make any sense to do something like that (untested!) ?
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/mtd/parsers/ofpart_core.c b/drivers/mtd/parsers/ofpart_core.c
> index 192190c42fc8..fffd60acd926 100644
> --- a/drivers/mtd/parsers/ofpart_core.c
> +++ b/drivers/mtd/parsers/ofpart_core.c
> @@ -122,6 +122,8 @@ static int parse_fixed_partitions(struct mtd_info *master,
> 
>                  a_cells = of_n_addr_cells(pp);
>                  s_cells = of_n_size_cells(pp);
> +               if (s_cells == 0)
> +                       s_cells = 1; // for backward compatibility
>                  if (len / 4 != a_cells + s_cells) {
>                          pr_debug("%s: ofpart partition %pOF (%pOF) error parsing reg property.\n",
>                                   master->name, pp,

You might want to print a warning too, so users would fix their DTs, 
since once there is MTD partition > 4 GiB, this would break. Otherwise I 
like this option.

Thanks for looking into this !

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Re: Boot failure regression on 6.0.10 stable kernel on iMX7

[Francesco Dolcini]

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On Thu, Dec 01, 2022 at 12:25:34PM +0100, Marek Vasut wrote:
> On 12/1/22 12:03, Francesco Dolcini wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 30, 2022 at 11:59:04PM +0100, Marek Vasut wrote:
> > > On 11/30/22 21:51, Francesco Dolcini wrote:
> > > > On Wed, Nov 30, 2022 at 03:41:13PM +0100, Marek Vasut wrote:
> > > > > On 11/30/22 14:52, Francesco Dolcini wrote:
> > > > > > [    0.000000] Booting Linux on physical CPU 0x0
> > > > > > [    0.000000] Linux version 6.0.10 (francesco@francesco-nb) (arm-linux-gnueabihf-gcc (Ubuntu 9.4.0-1ubuntu1~20.04.1) 9.
> > > > > > 4.0, GNU ld (GNU Binutils for Ubuntu) 2.34) #36 SMP Wed Nov 30 14:07:15 CET 2022
> > > > > > ...
> > > > > > [    4.407499] gpmi-nand: error parsing ofpart partition /soc/nand-controller@33002000/partition@0 (/soc/nand-controller
> > > > > > @33002000)
> > > > > > [    4.438401] gpmi-nand 33002000.nand-controller: driver registered.
> > > > > > ...
> > > > > > [    5.933906] VFS: Cannot open root device "ubi0:rootfs" or unknown-block(0,0): error -19
> > > > > > [    5.946504] Please append a correct "root=" boot option; here are the available partitions:
> > > > > > ...
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > Any idea? I'm not familiar with the gpmi-nand driver and I would just revert it, but
> > > > > > maybe you have a better idea.
> > > > > 
> > > > ...
> > > > OF partition are created by U-Boot from
> > > >     mtdparts=mtdparts=gpmi-nand:512k(mx7-bcb),1536k(u-boot1)ro,1536k(u-boot2)ro,512k(u-boot-env),-(ubi)
> > > > env variables calling fdt_fixup_mtdparts from colibri_imx7.c
> > > > 
> > > > This is generated by U-Boot, I would need to dump what he did generate
> > > > from the standard fdt_fixup_mtdparts(). I will try to do it tomorrow
> > > > unless what I wrote here is already enough to understand what's going
> > > > on.
> > > 
> > > Oh drat ... I see. It's the u-boot fdt_node_set_part_info() which checks the
> > > current NAND controller #size-cells and uses that when generating MTD
> > > partitions 'reg' properties. Since #size-cells is now zero, the reg
> > > properties would be malformed.
> > 
> > I think the issue is slightly different, the u-boot code checks it and
> > if not set it defaults to #size-cells = <1>. Said that u-boot
> > never set #size-cells anywhere.
> 
> Which it really should, can you send a patch there too ?

I guess that it is slightly more complicated.

U-Boot directly updates the nand-controller root node with the
partitions, unless there is already a partitions child node present. In
the first case (legacy OF partition definition) setting the #size-cells
does not seems that correct, while in the second case I agree it should
really do it. I'll see what I can come-up with.

> > diff --git a/drivers/mtd/parsers/ofpart_core.c b/drivers/mtd/parsers/ofpart_core.c
> > index 192190c42fc8..fffd60acd926 100644
> > --- a/drivers/mtd/parsers/ofpart_core.c
> > +++ b/drivers/mtd/parsers/ofpart_core.c
> > @@ -122,6 +122,8 @@ static int parse_fixed_partitions(struct mtd_info *master,
> > 
> >                  a_cells = of_n_addr_cells(pp);
> >                  s_cells = of_n_size_cells(pp);
> > +               if (s_cells == 0)
> > +                       s_cells = 1; // for backward compatibility
> >                  if (len / 4 != a_cells + s_cells) {
> >                          pr_debug("%s: ofpart partition %pOF (%pOF) error parsing reg property.\n",
> >                                   master->name, pp,
> 
> You might want to print a warning too, so users would fix their DTs, since
> once there is MTD partition > 4 GiB, this would break. Otherwise I like this
> option.

I tested it and it's working as expected, I'll send a proper patch soon.

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Re: Boot failure regression on 6.0.10 stable kernel on iMX7

[Marek Vasut]

On 12/1/22 16:45, Francesco Dolcini wrote:
> + u-boot list
> 
> On Thu, Dec 01, 2022 at 12:25:34PM +0100, Marek Vasut wrote:
>> On 12/1/22 12:03, Francesco Dolcini wrote:
>>> On Wed, Nov 30, 2022 at 11:59:04PM +0100, Marek Vasut wrote:
>>>> On 11/30/22 21:51, Francesco Dolcini wrote:
>>>>> On Wed, Nov 30, 2022 at 03:41:13PM +0100, Marek Vasut wrote:
>>>>>> On 11/30/22 14:52, Francesco Dolcini wrote:
>>>>>>> [    0.000000] Booting Linux on physical CPU 0x0
>>>>>>> [    0.000000] Linux version 6.0.10 (francesco@francesco-nb) (arm-linux-gnueabihf-gcc (Ubuntu 9.4.0-1ubuntu1~20.04.1) 9.
>>>>>>> 4.0, GNU ld (GNU Binutils for Ubuntu) 2.34) #36 SMP Wed Nov 30 14:07:15 CET 2022
>>>>>>> ...
>>>>>>> [    4.407499] gpmi-nand: error parsing ofpart partition /soc/nand-controller@33002000/partition@0 (/soc/nand-controller
>>>>>>> @33002000)
>>>>>>> [    4.438401] gpmi-nand 33002000.nand-controller: driver registered.
>>>>>>> ...
>>>>>>> [    5.933906] VFS: Cannot open root device "ubi0:rootfs" or unknown-block(0,0): error -19
>>>>>>> [    5.946504] Please append a correct "root=" boot option; here are the available partitions:
>>>>>>> ...
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Any idea? I'm not familiar with the gpmi-nand driver and I would just revert it, but
>>>>>>> maybe you have a better idea.
>>>>>>
>>>>> ...
>>>>> OF partition are created by U-Boot from
>>>>>      mtdparts=mtdparts=gpmi-nand:512k(mx7-bcb),1536k(u-boot1)ro,1536k(u-boot2)ro,512k(u-boot-env),-(ubi)
>>>>> env variables calling fdt_fixup_mtdparts from colibri_imx7.c
>>>>>
>>>>> This is generated by U-Boot, I would need to dump what he did generate
>>>>> from the standard fdt_fixup_mtdparts(). I will try to do it tomorrow
>>>>> unless what I wrote here is already enough to understand what's going
>>>>> on.
>>>>
>>>> Oh drat ... I see. It's the u-boot fdt_node_set_part_info() which checks the
>>>> current NAND controller #size-cells and uses that when generating MTD
>>>> partitions 'reg' properties. Since #size-cells is now zero, the reg
>>>> properties would be malformed.
>>>
>>> I think the issue is slightly different, the u-boot code checks it and
>>> if not set it defaults to #size-cells = <1>. Said that u-boot
>>> never set #size-cells anywhere.
>>
>> Which it really should, can you send a patch there too ?
> 
> I guess that it is slightly more complicated.
> 
> U-Boot directly updates the nand-controller root node with the
> partitions, unless there is already a partitions child node present. In
> the first case (legacy OF partition definition) setting the #size-cells
> does not seems that correct, while in the second case I agree it should
> really do it. I'll see what I can come-up with.
> 
>>> diff --git a/drivers/mtd/parsers/ofpart_core.c b/drivers/mtd/parsers/ofpart_core.c
>>> index 192190c42fc8..fffd60acd926 100644
>>> --- a/drivers/mtd/parsers/ofpart_core.c
>>> +++ b/drivers/mtd/parsers/ofpart_core.c
>>> @@ -122,6 +122,8 @@ static int parse_fixed_partitions(struct mtd_info *master,
>>>
>>>                   a_cells = of_n_addr_cells(pp);
>>>                   s_cells = of_n_size_cells(pp);
>>> +               if (s_cells == 0)
>>> +                       s_cells = 1; // for backward compatibility
>>>                   if (len / 4 != a_cells + s_cells) {
>>>                           pr_debug("%s: ofpart partition %pOF (%pOF) error parsing reg property.\n",
>>>                                    master->name, pp,
>>
>> You might want to print a warning too, so users would fix their DTs, since
>> once there is MTD partition > 4 GiB, this would break. Otherwise I like this
>> option.
> 
> I tested it and it's working as expected, I'll send a proper patch soon.

Much appreciated, thanks !

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Re: Boot failure regression on 6.0.10 stable kernel on iMX7 #forregzbot

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On 30.11.22 14:52, Francesco Dolcini wrote:
> it looks like commit 753395ea1e45 ("ARM: dts: imx7: Fix NAND controller
> size-cells"), that was backported to stable 6.0.10, introduce a boot
> regression on colibri-imx7, at least.
> [...]

Thanks for the report. To be sure below issue doesn't fall through the
cracks unnoticed, I'm adding it to regzbot, my Linux kernel regression
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#regzbot ^introduced 753395ea1e45
#regzbot title ARM: dts: imx7: Boot failure on iMX7
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