Hi Michael,

linux-next booted with warnings on a Power LPAR with CMO feature
enabled.

Test : boot with CMO enabled 
Kernel: 4.12.0-rc5-next-20170619
gcc : 4.8.5
Machine : Power 8 Power VM LPAR (Big Endian)

Steps to recreate:

1. Enable Shared Memory/CPU Mode for LPAR in HMC (lpar profile)
2. Build the kernel for the attached config
3. Boot the kernel, boot messages shows below warning

Firmware features changed after feature patching!
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WARNING: CPU: 5 PID: 1 at
arch/powerpc/lib/feature-fixups.c:214 .check_features+0xa0/0xbc
Modules linked in:
CPU: 5 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/5 Not tainted 4.12.0-rc5-next-20170619-autotest #1
task: c0000003bbc20000 task.stack: c0000003bbc80000
NIP: c000000000ce599c LR: c000000000ce5998 CTR: 00000000006338e4
REGS: c0000003bbc83910 TRAP: 0700   Not tainted  (4.12.0-rc5-next-20170619-autotest)
MSR: 800000000282b032 <SF,VEC,VSX,EE,FP,ME,IR,DR,RI>
  CR: 22000022  XER: 00000002  
CFAR: c00000000024368c SOFTE: 1 
GPR00: c000000000ce5998 c0000003bbc83b90 c00000000132e800 0000000000000031 
GPR04: 0000000000000000 800000380fe53ec0 ffffffffffffffff 0000000000000000 
GPR08: 0000000000000000 c0000000011999f8 c0000000011999f8 0000000000003ff0 
GPR12: 0000000028000024 c00000000e743480 c00000000000d380 0000000000000000 
GPR16: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 
GPR20: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 
GPR24: 0000000000000000 c0000000012aad08 c000000000cc0b88 00000000000000e8 
GPR28: c000000000d3ea38 0000000000000007 0000000000000000 c000000001375d20 
NIP [c000000000ce599c] .check_features+0xa0/0xbc
LR [c000000000ce5998] .check_features+0x9c/0xbc
Call Trace:
[c0000003bbc83b90] [c000000000ce5998] .check_features+0x9c/0xbc
(unreliable)
[c0000003bbc83c10] [c00000000000cb1c] .do_one_initcall+0x5c/0x1c0
[c0000003bbc83ce0] [c000000000cd47d0] .kernel_init_freeable+0x270/0x350
[c0000003bbc83db0] [c00000000000d39c] .kernel_init+0x1c/0x140
[c0000003bbc83e30] [c00000000000b3e4] .ret_from_kernel_thread+0x58/0x74
Instruction dump:
0fe00000 60000000 3d02ffa1 e92296e0 e94851d0 e9290000 7faa4800 41fe0018 
3c62ff89 3863e6f0 4b55dcb9 60000000 <0fe00000> 38210080 38600000
e8010010 
random: 0x600000003d22001e get_random_bytes called with crng_init=0
---[ end trace c0f890377edaeb14 ]---
Running MSI bitmap self-tests ... 

Possible bad commit looks to be:

commit a28e46f109c9637b2539b9995078d5df4f7f6c09
Author: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Date:   Tue Jul 26 22:29:18 2016 +1000

    powerpc/kernel: Check features don't change after patching
    
    Early in boot we binary patch some sections of code based on the CPU and
    MMU feature bits. But it is a one-time patching, there is no facility
    for repatching the code later if the set of features change.
    
    It is a major bug if the set of features changes after we've done the
    code patching - so add a check for it.
    
    Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>


-- 
Regard's

Abdul Haleem
IBM Linux Technology Centre