nios2 crash/hang in mainline due to 'lib: update LZ4 compressor module'

nios2 crash/hang in mainline due to 'lib: update LZ4 compressor module'

[Guenter Roeck]

Hi Sven,

my qemu test for nios2 started failing with commit 4e1a33b105dd ("lib:
update LZ4 compressor module"). The test hangs early during boot before
any console output is seen. Reverting the offending patch as well as the
subsequent lz4 related patches fixes the problem. Disabling CONFIG_RD_LZ4
and with it other LZ4 options also fixes it (as does adding "return -EINVAL;"
at the top of the LZ4 decompression code). For reference, bisect log
is attached.

I tried with buildroot toolchains using gcc 6.1.0 as well as 6.3.0
and binutils 2.26.1. Scripts used to run the tests are available at
https://github.com/groeck/linux-build-test/tree/master/rootfs/nios2.
Qemu is from qemu mainline or qemu v2.8 with nios2 patches applied.

I tried to track down the problem, with no success. Just the presence
of the LZ4 code seems to be sufficient to cause the problem; I have
no idea why that would be the case.

Please let me know if there is anything I can do to help tracking down
the problem.

Thanks,
Guenter

---
# bad: [c4f3f22eddc982d247ffe2a6690c3e4a5c46dd09] Merge tag 'linux-kselftest-4.11-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/shuah/linux-kselftest
# good: [9e314890292c0dd357eadef6a043704fa0b4c157] Merge tag 'openrisc-for-linus' of git://github.com/openrisc/linux
git bisect start 'HEAD' '9e31489'
# bad: [7067739df23ffd641ca99c967830e0ed2ba39eab] Merge branch 'i2c/for-4.11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wsa/linux
git bisect bad 7067739df23ffd641ca99c967830e0ed2ba39eab
# good: [c5adae9583ef6985875532904160c6bf9f07b453] lib: add CONFIG_TEST_SORT to enable self-test of sort()
git bisect good c5adae9583ef6985875532904160c6bf9f07b453
# bad: [edccb59429657b09806146339e2b27594c1d1da0] Merge tag 'fbdev-v4.11' of git://github.com/bzolnier/linux
git bisect bad edccb59429657b09806146339e2b27594c1d1da0
# good: [72db33355c1431fefcabb06c9c25705e8226eed5] fbdev: ssd1307fb: Start to use gpiod API for reset gpio
git bisect good 72db33355c1431fefcabb06c9c25705e8226eed5
# bad: [95330473636e5e4546f94874c957c3be66bb2140] checkpatch: remove false unbalanced braces warning
git bisect bad 95330473636e5e4546f94874c957c3be66bb2140
# bad: [69c78423b8f439b077929410bdf8f88e7031b891] lib/lz4: remove back-compat wrappers
git bisect bad 69c78423b8f439b077929410bdf8f88e7031b891
# bad: [e23d54e48346e775be53b3cc25a95d65da960393] lib/decompress_unlz4: change module to work with new LZ4 module version
git bisect bad e23d54e48346e775be53b3cc25a95d65da960393
# bad: [4e1a33b105ddf201f66dcc44490c6086a25eca0b] lib: update LZ4 compressor module
git bisect bad 4e1a33b105ddf201f66dcc44490c6086a25eca0b
# good: [8893f519330bb073a49c5b4676fce4be6f1be15d] lib/test_sort.c: make it explicitly non-modular
git bisect good 8893f519330bb073a49c5b4676fce4be6f1be15d
# first bad commit: [4e1a33b105ddf201f66dcc44490c6086a25eca0b] lib: update LZ4 compressor module

Re: nios2 crash/hang in mainline due to 'lib: update LZ4 compressor module'

[Sven Schmidt]

Hi Guenter,

thanks for your testing!

I must admit, I'm fairly new to kernel development and a little overwhelmed by all that tools used.
So I do not really know how to reproduce your test using your script. I installed qemu from the master branch and buildroot.
Unfortunately, that's the point I'm stuck. I would be grateful if you provide me some lead how to continue.
Would I make the kernel using ARCH=nios2 and a defconf and pass it to qemu? What arguments do I provide to that script
(especially, the machine param)?

On Sun, Feb 26, 2017 at 01:03:38PM -0800, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> Hi Sven,
> 
> my qemu test for nios2 started failing with commit 4e1a33b105dd ("lib:
> update LZ4 compressor module"). The test hangs early during boot before
> any console output is seen. Reverting the offending patch as well as the
> subsequent lz4 related patches fixes the problem. Disabling CONFIG_RD_LZ4
> and with it other LZ4 options also fixes it (as does adding "return -EINVAL;"
> at the top of the LZ4 decompression code). For reference, bisect log
> is attached.
> 

So, seems like it's the decompressor? Which decompression code do you mean exactly? LZ4_decompress_fast/_safe/_generic?
Since the decompression functions worked fine in all previous tests, and this is a problem during boot, my first guess would
be the lib/decompress_unlz4.c, providing the functions for decompressing a lz4-compressed kernel image.
But then it should only result in problems when the kernel image is compressed, wouldn't it?

> I tried with buildroot toolchains using gcc 6.1.0 as well as 6.3.0
> and binutils 2.26.1. Scripts used to run the tests are available at
> https://github.com/groeck/linux-build-test/tree/master/rootfs/nios2.
> Qemu is from qemu mainline or qemu v2.8 with nios2 patches applied.
> 
> I tried to track down the problem, with no success. Just the presence
> of the LZ4 code seems to be sufficient to cause the problem; I have
> no idea why that would be the case.
> 

Maybe there's someone who has an idea and/or is experiencing similar issues. Hopefully, we can track this down.

> Please let me know if there is anything I can do to help tracking down
> the problem.
> 
> Thanks,
> Guenter
> 
> ---
> # bad: [c4f3f22eddc982d247ffe2a6690c3e4a5c46dd09] Merge tag 'linux-kselftest-4.11-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/shuah/linux-kselftest
> # good: [9e314890292c0dd357eadef6a043704fa0b4c157] Merge tag 'openrisc-for-linus' of git://github.com/openrisc/linux
> git bisect start 'HEAD' '9e31489'
> # bad: [7067739df23ffd641ca99c967830e0ed2ba39eab] Merge branch 'i2c/for-4.11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wsa/linux
> git bisect bad 7067739df23ffd641ca99c967830e0ed2ba39eab
> # good: [c5adae9583ef6985875532904160c6bf9f07b453] lib: add CONFIG_TEST_SORT to enable self-test of sort()
> git bisect good c5adae9583ef6985875532904160c6bf9f07b453
> # bad: [edccb59429657b09806146339e2b27594c1d1da0] Merge tag 'fbdev-v4.11' of git://github.com/bzolnier/linux
> git bisect bad edccb59429657b09806146339e2b27594c1d1da0
> # good: [72db33355c1431fefcabb06c9c25705e8226eed5] fbdev: ssd1307fb: Start to use gpiod API for reset gpio
> git bisect good 72db33355c1431fefcabb06c9c25705e8226eed5
> # bad: [95330473636e5e4546f94874c957c3be66bb2140] checkpatch: remove false unbalanced braces warning
> git bisect bad 95330473636e5e4546f94874c957c3be66bb2140
> # bad: [69c78423b8f439b077929410bdf8f88e7031b891] lib/lz4: remove back-compat wrappers
> git bisect bad 69c78423b8f439b077929410bdf8f88e7031b891
> # bad: [e23d54e48346e775be53b3cc25a95d65da960393] lib/decompress_unlz4: change module to work with new LZ4 module version
> git bisect bad e23d54e48346e775be53b3cc25a95d65da960393
> # bad: [4e1a33b105ddf201f66dcc44490c6086a25eca0b] lib: update LZ4 compressor module
> git bisect bad 4e1a33b105ddf201f66dcc44490c6086a25eca0b
> # good: [8893f519330bb073a49c5b4676fce4be6f1be15d] lib/test_sort.c: make it explicitly non-modular
> git bisect good 8893f519330bb073a49c5b4676fce4be6f1be15d
> # first bad commit: [4e1a33b105ddf201f66dcc44490c6086a25eca0b] lib: update LZ4 compressor module

Thank you,

Sven

Re: nios2 crash/hang in mainline due to 'lib: update LZ4 compressor module'

[Guenter Roeck]

On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 08:34:55PM +0100, Sven Schmidt wrote:
> Hi Guenter,
> 
> thanks for your testing!
> 
> I must admit, I'm fairly new to kernel development and a little overwhelmed by all that tools used.
> So I do not really know how to reproduce your test using your script. I installed qemu from the master branch and buildroot.
> Unfortunately, that's the point I'm stuck. I would be grateful if you provide me some lead how to continue.
> Would I make the kernel using ARCH=nios2 and a defconf and pass it to qemu? What arguments do I provide to that script
> (especially, the machine param)?
> 

run-qemu-nios2.sh doesn't need any parameters, though you would have to update
PATH_NIOS2 to match your toolchain and QEMU to match the qemu binary location.
Otherwise just run the script from your linux repository.

You can also build a nios2 image using 10m50_defconfig and run qemu directly.
Just remember to enable CONFIG_NIOS2_PASS_CMDLINE=y and CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD=y.
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD=y enables CONFIG_RD_LZ4 which triggers the problem.

path-to-qemu/qemu-system-nios2 -M 10m50-ghrd -kernel vmlinux -no-reboot \
	-dtb arch/nios2/boot/dts/10m50_devboard.dtb \
	--append "rdinit=/sbin/init" \
	-initrd busybox-nios2.cpio \
	-nographic -monitor none

should do it (assuming you copied the root file system from
https://github.com/groeck/linux-build-test/blob/master/rootfs/nios2/busybox-nios2.cpio).

> On Sun, Feb 26, 2017 at 01:03:38PM -0800, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> > Hi Sven,
> > 
> > my qemu test for nios2 started failing with commit 4e1a33b105dd ("lib:
> > update LZ4 compressor module"). The test hangs early during boot before
> > any console output is seen. Reverting the offending patch as well as the
> > subsequent lz4 related patches fixes the problem. Disabling CONFIG_RD_LZ4
> > and with it other LZ4 options also fixes it (as does adding "return -EINVAL;"
> > at the top of the LZ4 decompression code). For reference, bisect log
> > is attached.
> > 
> 
> So, seems like it's the decompressor? Which decompression code do you mean exactly? LZ4_decompress_fast/_safe/_generic?
> Since the decompression functions worked fine in all previous tests, and this is a problem during boot, my first guess would
> be the lib/decompress_unlz4.c, providing the functions for decompressing a lz4-compressed kernel image.
> But then it should only result in problems when the kernel image is compressed, wouldn't it?
> 
I am booting the uncompressed kernel. Also, if I disable CONFIG_RD_LZ4
in the configuration, everything works just fine. Just the _presence_ of
the decompression code seems to trigger the problem. No idea if enabling
CONFIG_RD_LZ4 results in some LZ4 compressed code to be generated (I do
see usr/initramfs_data.cpio.lz4).

I added "return -EINVAL;" to the top of LZ4_decompress_generic(), which
also helped. Adding it to the individual decompression functions seemed
to be an on/off thing; sometimes it helped, sometimes not.

> > I tried with buildroot toolchains using gcc 6.1.0 as well as 6.3.0
> > and binutils 2.26.1. Scripts used to run the tests are available at
> > https://github.com/groeck/linux-build-test/tree/master/rootfs/nios2.
> > Qemu is from qemu mainline or qemu v2.8 with nios2 patches applied.
> > 
> > I tried to track down the problem, with no success. Just the presence
> > of the LZ4 code seems to be sufficient to cause the problem; I have
> > no idea why that would be the case.
> > 
> 
> Maybe there's someone who has an idea and/or is experiencing similar issues. Hopefully, we can track this down.
> 

Agreed. For my part I am pretty much out of ideas. I could explicitly
disable CONFIG_RD_LZ4 in my tests, but that would really just defeat
the purpose.

Guenter

> > Please let me know if there is anything I can do to help tracking down
> > the problem.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Guenter
> > 
> > ---
> > # bad: [c4f3f22eddc982d247ffe2a6690c3e4a5c46dd09] Merge tag 'linux-kselftest-4.11-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/shuah/linux-kselftest
> > # good: [9e314890292c0dd357eadef6a043704fa0b4c157] Merge tag 'openrisc-for-linus' of git://github.com/openrisc/linux
> > git bisect start 'HEAD' '9e31489'
> > # bad: [7067739df23ffd641ca99c967830e0ed2ba39eab] Merge branch 'i2c/for-4.11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wsa/linux
> > git bisect bad 7067739df23ffd641ca99c967830e0ed2ba39eab
> > # good: [c5adae9583ef6985875532904160c6bf9f07b453] lib: add CONFIG_TEST_SORT to enable self-test of sort()
> > git bisect good c5adae9583ef6985875532904160c6bf9f07b453
> > # bad: [edccb59429657b09806146339e2b27594c1d1da0] Merge tag 'fbdev-v4.11' of git://github.com/bzolnier/linux
> > git bisect bad edccb59429657b09806146339e2b27594c1d1da0
> > # good: [72db33355c1431fefcabb06c9c25705e8226eed5] fbdev: ssd1307fb: Start to use gpiod API for reset gpio
> > git bisect good 72db33355c1431fefcabb06c9c25705e8226eed5
> > # bad: [95330473636e5e4546f94874c957c3be66bb2140] checkpatch: remove false unbalanced braces warning
> > git bisect bad 95330473636e5e4546f94874c957c3be66bb2140
> > # bad: [69c78423b8f439b077929410bdf8f88e7031b891] lib/lz4: remove back-compat wrappers
> > git bisect bad 69c78423b8f439b077929410bdf8f88e7031b891
> > # bad: [e23d54e48346e775be53b3cc25a95d65da960393] lib/decompress_unlz4: change module to work with new LZ4 module version
> > git bisect bad e23d54e48346e775be53b3cc25a95d65da960393
> > # bad: [4e1a33b105ddf201f66dcc44490c6086a25eca0b] lib: update LZ4 compressor module
> > git bisect bad 4e1a33b105ddf201f66dcc44490c6086a25eca0b
> > # good: [8893f519330bb073a49c5b4676fce4be6f1be15d] lib/test_sort.c: make it explicitly non-modular
> > git bisect good 8893f519330bb073a49c5b4676fce4be6f1be15d
> > # first bad commit: [4e1a33b105ddf201f66dcc44490c6086a25eca0b] lib: update LZ4 compressor module
> 
> Thank you,
> 
> Sven

Re: nios2 crash/hang in mainline due to 'lib: update LZ4 compressor module'

[Tobias Klauser]

(adding Sandra Loosemore to Cc due to possible relation to gcc/binutils
for nios2)

On 2017-02-26 at 22:03:38 +0100, Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> wrote:
> Hi Sven,
> 
> my qemu test for nios2 started failing with commit 4e1a33b105dd ("lib:
> update LZ4 compressor module"). The test hangs early during boot before
> any console output is seen. Reverting the offending patch as well as the
> subsequent lz4 related patches fixes the problem. Disabling CONFIG_RD_LZ4
> and with it other LZ4 options also fixes it (as does adding "return -EINVAL;"
> at the top of the LZ4 decompression code). For reference, bisect log
> is attached.
> 
> I tried with buildroot toolchains using gcc 6.1.0 as well as 6.3.0
> and binutils 2.26.1. Scripts used to run the tests are available at
> https://github.com/groeck/linux-build-test/tree/master/rootfs/nios2.
> Qemu is from qemu mainline or qemu v2.8 with nios2 patches applied.

Looks like this is somehow related to gcc/binutils. Using GCC 4.8.3 and
binutils 2.24.51 (both from from Sourcery CodeBench Lite 2014.05) I can
get a kernel booting on latest master branch. AFAICT, none of the
LZ4_decompress_* functions are called during boot.

However, using a self-built GCC 7.0 (20161127) and binutils 2.27 I can
reproduce the problem you see using the instructions Guenter provided in
the reply to Sven.

I'll try to dig a bit deeper from here on. Any suggestions on what to
look out for wrt the differences between the gcc/binutils version are
welcome of course.

Thanks
Tobias

Re: nios2 crash/hang in mainline due to 'lib: update LZ4 compressor module'

[Sandra Loosemore]

On 02/28/2017 08:53 AM, Tobias Klauser wrote:
> (adding Sandra Loosemore to Cc due to possible relation to gcc/binutils
> for nios2)
>
> On 2017-02-26 at 22:03:38 +0100, Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> wrote:
>> Hi Sven,
>>
>> my qemu test for nios2 started failing with commit 4e1a33b105dd ("lib:
>> update LZ4 compressor module"). The test hangs early during boot before
>> any console output is seen. Reverting the offending patch as well as the
>> subsequent lz4 related patches fixes the problem. Disabling CONFIG_RD_LZ4
>> and with it other LZ4 options also fixes it (as does adding "return -EINVAL;"
>> at the top of the LZ4 decompression code). For reference, bisect log
>> is attached.
>>
>> I tried with buildroot toolchains using gcc 6.1.0 as well as 6.3.0
>> and binutils 2.26.1. Scripts used to run the tests are available at
>> https://github.com/groeck/linux-build-test/tree/master/rootfs/nios2.
>> Qemu is from qemu mainline or qemu v2.8 with nios2 patches applied.
>
> Looks like this is somehow related to gcc/binutils. Using GCC 4.8.3 and
> binutils 2.24.51 (both from from Sourcery CodeBench Lite 2014.05) I can
> get a kernel booting on latest master branch. AFAICT, none of the
> LZ4_decompress_* functions are called during boot.
>
> However, using a self-built GCC 7.0 (20161127) and binutils 2.27 I can
> reproduce the problem you see using the instructions Guenter provided in
> the reply to Sven.
>
> I'll try to dig a bit deeper from here on. Any suggestions on what to
> look out for wrt the differences between the gcc/binutils version are
> welcome of course.

This message doesn't give me enough context to know what is going on, 
especially without seeing the rest of the thread.  Generally speaking, 
Mentor recommends you use one of our stable releases instead of trying 
to roll your own from mainline sources.  As an upstream binutils and gcc 
maintainer I do try my best to look at bug reports for those components, 
but I need a reproducible standalone testcase and specific versions of 
the different components involved.

-Sandra

Re: nios2 crash/hang in mainline due to 'lib: update LZ4 compressor module'

[Guenter Roeck]

On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 10:53:56AM -0700, Sandra Loosemore wrote:
> On 02/28/2017 08:53 AM, Tobias Klauser wrote:
> >(adding Sandra Loosemore to Cc due to possible relation to gcc/binutils
> >for nios2)
> >
> >On 2017-02-26 at 22:03:38 +0100, Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> wrote:
> >>Hi Sven,
> >>
> >>my qemu test for nios2 started failing with commit 4e1a33b105dd ("lib:
> >>update LZ4 compressor module"). The test hangs early during boot before
> >>any console output is seen. Reverting the offending patch as well as the
> >>subsequent lz4 related patches fixes the problem. Disabling CONFIG_RD_LZ4
> >>and with it other LZ4 options also fixes it (as does adding "return -EINVAL;"
> >>at the top of the LZ4 decompression code). For reference, bisect log
> >>is attached.
> >>
> >>I tried with buildroot toolchains using gcc 6.1.0 as well as 6.3.0
> >>and binutils 2.26.1. Scripts used to run the tests are available at
> >>https://github.com/groeck/linux-build-test/tree/master/rootfs/nios2.
> >>Qemu is from qemu mainline or qemu v2.8 with nios2 patches applied.
> >
> >Looks like this is somehow related to gcc/binutils. Using GCC 4.8.3 and
> >binutils 2.24.51 (both from from Sourcery CodeBench Lite 2014.05) I can
> >get a kernel booting on latest master branch. AFAICT, none of the
> >LZ4_decompress_* functions are called during boot.
> >
> >However, using a self-built GCC 7.0 (20161127) and binutils 2.27 I can
> >reproduce the problem you see using the instructions Guenter provided in
> >the reply to Sven.
> >
> >I'll try to dig a bit deeper from here on. Any suggestions on what to
> >look out for wrt the differences between the gcc/binutils version are
> >welcome of course.
> 
> This message doesn't give me enough context to know what is going on,
> especially without seeing the rest of the thread.  Generally speaking,
> Mentor recommends you use one of our stable releases instead of trying to
> roll your own from mainline sources.  As an upstream binutils and gcc
> maintainer I do try my best to look at bug reports for those components, but
> I need a reproducible standalone testcase and specific versions of the
> different components involved.
> 
The problem is also seen with Sourcery CodeBench Lite 2016.11-32 (gcc 6.2.0,
binutils 2.26.51). I can provide additional details if needed, but we don't
have a well enough understanding of the problem to be able to provide a
reduced size test case. The test used to reproduce the problem is available
at https://github.com/groeck/linux-build-test/tree/master/rootfs/nios2,
run on the ToT linux kernel.

Guenter

Re: nios2 crash/hang in mainline due to 'lib: update LZ4 compressor module'

[Sven Schmidt]

Hi Guenter, Tobias and Sandra,

thanks for your effort here.

On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 10:14:13AM -0800, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 10:53:56AM -0700, Sandra Loosemore wrote:
> > On 02/28/2017 08:53 AM, Tobias Klauser wrote:
> > >(adding Sandra Loosemore to Cc due to possible relation to gcc/binutils
> > >for nios2)
> > >
> > >On 2017-02-26 at 22:03:38 +0100, Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> wrote:
> > >>Hi Sven,
> > >>
> > >>my qemu test for nios2 started failing with commit 4e1a33b105dd ("lib:
> > >>update LZ4 compressor module"). The test hangs early during boot before
> > >>any console output is seen. Reverting the offending patch as well as the
> > >>subsequent lz4 related patches fixes the problem. Disabling CONFIG_RD_LZ4
> > >>and with it other LZ4 options also fixes it (as does adding "return -EINVAL;"
> > >>at the top of the LZ4 decompression code). For reference, bisect log
> > >>is attached.
> > >>
> > >>I tried with buildroot toolchains using gcc 6.1.0 as well as 6.3.0
> > >>and binutils 2.26.1. Scripts used to run the tests are available at
> > >>https://github.com/groeck/linux-build-test/tree/master/rootfs/nios2.
> > >>Qemu is from qemu mainline or qemu v2.8 with nios2 patches applied.
> > >
> > >Looks like this is somehow related to gcc/binutils. Using GCC 4.8.3 and
> > >binutils 2.24.51 (both from from Sourcery CodeBench Lite 2014.05) I can
> > >get a kernel booting on latest master branch. AFAICT, none of the
> > >LZ4_decompress_* functions are called during boot.
> > >

It seems a bit strange that code which is not actually called causes problems like that.

Please let me know if and how I may help you figure out what's happening, especially
regarding the differences between the previous LZ4 and the current implementation.

> > >However, using a self-built GCC 7.0 (20161127) and binutils 2.27 I can
> > >reproduce the problem you see using the instructions Guenter provided in
> > >the reply to Sven.
> > >
> > >I'll try to dig a bit deeper from here on. Any suggestions on what to
> > >look out for wrt the differences between the gcc/binutils version are
> > >welcome of course.
> > 
> > This message doesn't give me enough context to know what is going on,
> > especially without seeing the rest of the thread.  Generally speaking,
> > Mentor recommends you use one of our stable releases instead of trying to
> > roll your own from mainline sources.  As an upstream binutils and gcc
> > maintainer I do try my best to look at bug reports for those components, but
> > I need a reproducible standalone testcase and specific versions of the
> > different components involved.
> > 
> The problem is also seen with Sourcery CodeBench Lite 2016.11-32 (gcc 6.2.0,
> binutils 2.26.51). I can provide additional details if needed, but we don't
> have a well enough understanding of the problem to be able to provide a
> reduced size test case. The test used to reproduce the problem is available
> at https://github.com/groeck/linux-build-test/tree/master/rootfs/nios2,
> run on the ToT linux kernel.
> 
> Guenter

Regards,

Sven

Re: nios2 crash/hang in mainline due to 'lib: update LZ4 compressor module'

[Guenter Roeck]

On Wed, Mar 01, 2017 at 07:58:17PM +0100, Sven Schmidt wrote:
> Hi Guenter, Tobias and Sandra,
> 
> thanks for your effort here.
> 
> On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 10:14:13AM -0800, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 10:53:56AM -0700, Sandra Loosemore wrote:
> > > On 02/28/2017 08:53 AM, Tobias Klauser wrote:
> > > >(adding Sandra Loosemore to Cc due to possible relation to gcc/binutils
> > > >for nios2)
> > > >
> > > >On 2017-02-26 at 22:03:38 +0100, Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> wrote:
> > > >>Hi Sven,
> > > >>
> > > >>my qemu test for nios2 started failing with commit 4e1a33b105dd ("lib:
> > > >>update LZ4 compressor module"). The test hangs early during boot before
> > > >>any console output is seen. Reverting the offending patch as well as the
> > > >>subsequent lz4 related patches fixes the problem. Disabling CONFIG_RD_LZ4
> > > >>and with it other LZ4 options also fixes it (as does adding "return -EINVAL;"
> > > >>at the top of the LZ4 decompression code). For reference, bisect log
> > > >>is attached.
> > > >>
> > > >>I tried with buildroot toolchains using gcc 6.1.0 as well as 6.3.0
> > > >>and binutils 2.26.1. Scripts used to run the tests are available at
> > > >>https://github.com/groeck/linux-build-test/tree/master/rootfs/nios2.
> > > >>Qemu is from qemu mainline or qemu v2.8 with nios2 patches applied.
> > > >
> > > >Looks like this is somehow related to gcc/binutils. Using GCC 4.8.3 and
> > > >binutils 2.24.51 (both from from Sourcery CodeBench Lite 2014.05) I can
> > > >get a kernel booting on latest master branch. AFAICT, none of the
> > > >LZ4_decompress_* functions are called during boot.
> > > >
> 
> It seems a bit strange that code which is not actually called causes problems like that.
> 
Yes, it is, though it is always possible. The code isn't exactly easy to
understand; there may be some hidden caveats such as global variables. It may
also be that some jump target exceeds its range (though why that would only
be seen with the LZ4 code is another question), or that the compiler gets
confused by the forced inlines (disabling that didn't make a difference,
though, nor did disabling -O3).

> Please let me know if and how I may help you figure out what's happening, especially
> regarding the differences between the previous LZ4 and the current implementation.
> 

For my part I am all but clueless. Unless someone has an idea, we may to
disable LZ4 support for nios2 for the time being. Does anyone have thoughts
on that ? Of course, that would not help if the problem also affects
recent gcc/binutil versions on other architectures.

Thanks,
Guenter

> > > >However, using a self-built GCC 7.0 (20161127) and binutils 2.27 I can
> > > >reproduce the problem you see using the instructions Guenter provided in
> > > >the reply to Sven.
> > > >
> > > >I'll try to dig a bit deeper from here on. Any suggestions on what to
> > > >look out for wrt the differences between the gcc/binutils version are
> > > >welcome of course.
> > > 
> > > This message doesn't give me enough context to know what is going on,
> > > especially without seeing the rest of the thread.  Generally speaking,
> > > Mentor recommends you use one of our stable releases instead of trying to
> > > roll your own from mainline sources.  As an upstream binutils and gcc
> > > maintainer I do try my best to look at bug reports for those components, but
> > > I need a reproducible standalone testcase and specific versions of the
> > > different components involved.
> > > 
> > The problem is also seen with Sourcery CodeBench Lite 2016.11-32 (gcc 6.2.0,
> > binutils 2.26.51). I can provide additional details if needed, but we don't
> > have a well enough understanding of the problem to be able to provide a
> > reduced size test case. The test used to reproduce the problem is available
> > at https://github.com/groeck/linux-build-test/tree/master/rootfs/nios2,
> > run on the ToT linux kernel.
> > 
> > Guenter
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Sven

Re: nios2 crash/hang in mainline due to 'lib: update LZ4 compressor module'

[Tobias Klauser]

On 2017-03-01 at 20:45:21 +0100, Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 01, 2017 at 07:58:17PM +0100, Sven Schmidt wrote:
> > Hi Guenter, Tobias and Sandra,
> > 
> > thanks for your effort here.
> > 
> > On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 10:14:13AM -0800, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> > > On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 10:53:56AM -0700, Sandra Loosemore wrote:
> > > > On 02/28/2017 08:53 AM, Tobias Klauser wrote:
> > > > >(adding Sandra Loosemore to Cc due to possible relation to gcc/binutils
> > > > >for nios2)
> > > > >
> > > > >On 2017-02-26 at 22:03:38 +0100, Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> wrote:
> > > > >>Hi Sven,
> > > > >>
> > > > >>my qemu test for nios2 started failing with commit 4e1a33b105dd ("lib:
> > > > >>update LZ4 compressor module"). The test hangs early during boot before
> > > > >>any console output is seen. Reverting the offending patch as well as the
> > > > >>subsequent lz4 related patches fixes the problem. Disabling CONFIG_RD_LZ4
> > > > >>and with it other LZ4 options also fixes it (as does adding "return -EINVAL;"
> > > > >>at the top of the LZ4 decompression code). For reference, bisect log
> > > > >>is attached.
> > > > >>
> > > > >>I tried with buildroot toolchains using gcc 6.1.0 as well as 6.3.0
> > > > >>and binutils 2.26.1. Scripts used to run the tests are available at
> > > > >>https://github.com/groeck/linux-build-test/tree/master/rootfs/nios2.
> > > > >>Qemu is from qemu mainline or qemu v2.8 with nios2 patches applied.
> > > > >
> > > > >Looks like this is somehow related to gcc/binutils. Using GCC 4.8.3 and
> > > > >binutils 2.24.51 (both from from Sourcery CodeBench Lite 2014.05) I can
> > > > >get a kernel booting on latest master branch. AFAICT, none of the
> > > > >LZ4_decompress_* functions are called during boot.
> > > > >
> > 
> > It seems a bit strange that code which is not actually called causes problems like that.
> > 
> Yes, it is, though it is always possible. The code isn't exactly easy to
> understand; there may be some hidden caveats such as global variables. It may
> also be that some jump target exceeds its range (though why that would only
> be seen with the LZ4 code is another question), or that the compiler gets
> confused by the forced inlines (disabling that didn't make a difference,
> though, nor did disabling -O3).
> 
> > Please let me know if and how I may help you figure out what's happening, especially
> > regarding the differences between the previous LZ4 and the current implementation.
> > 
> 
> For my part I am all but clueless. Unless someone has an idea, we may to
> disable LZ4 support for nios2 for the time being. Does anyone have thoughts
> on that ? Of course, that would not help if the problem also affects
> recent gcc/binutil versions on other architectures.

After some further investigations, I'd say this isn't "caused" by LZ4
specifically but by a more general problem with one of the nios2 arch
specific tools involved.

I manually enabled random additional CONFIG_* options and in some cases
I got the kernel to boot (with CONFIG_RD_LZ4 enabled and no return
-EINVAL in place) while in others I didn't. So I'd rather suspect this
problem to be connected to the size or structure of the generated vmlinux
image.

Or could this even be a problem with qemu? Did anyone already verify
this on the 10m50 devboard? (Unfortunately I don't have any nios2
devboard available right now, otherwise I would have done this...)

Other than that I'm also becoming all but clueless... One option I
thought of was using the QEMU monitor to dump the CPU state after the
hang but so far I didn't manage to get it to work (hints appreciated ;)

Thanks
Tobias

Re: nios2 crash/hang in mainline due to 'lib: update LZ4 compressor module'

[Guenter Roeck]

On 03/02/2017 08:38 AM, Tobias Klauser wrote:
> On 2017-03-01 at 20:45:21 +0100, Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> wrote:
>> On Wed, Mar 01, 2017 at 07:58:17PM +0100, Sven Schmidt wrote:
>>> Hi Guenter, Tobias and Sandra,
>>>
>>> thanks for your effort here.
>>>
>>> On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 10:14:13AM -0800, Guenter Roeck wrote:
>>>> On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 10:53:56AM -0700, Sandra Loosemore wrote:
>>>>> On 02/28/2017 08:53 AM, Tobias Klauser wrote:
>>>>>> (adding Sandra Loosemore to Cc due to possible relation to gcc/binutils
>>>>>> for nios2)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 2017-02-26 at 22:03:38 +0100, Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> wrote:
>>>>>>> Hi Sven,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> my qemu test for nios2 started failing with commit 4e1a33b105dd ("lib:
>>>>>>> update LZ4 compressor module"). The test hangs early during boot before
>>>>>>> any console output is seen. Reverting the offending patch as well as the
>>>>>>> subsequent lz4 related patches fixes the problem. Disabling CONFIG_RD_LZ4
>>>>>>> and with it other LZ4 options also fixes it (as does adding "return -EINVAL;"
>>>>>>> at the top of the LZ4 decompression code). For reference, bisect log
>>>>>>> is attached.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I tried with buildroot toolchains using gcc 6.1.0 as well as 6.3.0
>>>>>>> and binutils 2.26.1. Scripts used to run the tests are available at
>>>>>>> https://github.com/groeck/linux-build-test/tree/master/rootfs/nios2.
>>>>>>> Qemu is from qemu mainline or qemu v2.8 with nios2 patches applied.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Looks like this is somehow related to gcc/binutils. Using GCC 4.8.3 and
>>>>>> binutils 2.24.51 (both from from Sourcery CodeBench Lite 2014.05) I can
>>>>>> get a kernel booting on latest master branch. AFAICT, none of the
>>>>>> LZ4_decompress_* functions are called during boot.
>>>>>>
>>>
>>> It seems a bit strange that code which is not actually called causes problems like that.
>>>
>> Yes, it is, though it is always possible. The code isn't exactly easy to
>> understand; there may be some hidden caveats such as global variables. It may
>> also be that some jump target exceeds its range (though why that would only
>> be seen with the LZ4 code is another question), or that the compiler gets
>> confused by the forced inlines (disabling that didn't make a difference,
>> though, nor did disabling -O3).
>>
>>> Please let me know if and how I may help you figure out what's happening, especially
>>> regarding the differences between the previous LZ4 and the current implementation.
>>>
>>
>> For my part I am all but clueless. Unless someone has an idea, we may to
>> disable LZ4 support for nios2 for the time being. Does anyone have thoughts
>> on that ? Of course, that would not help if the problem also affects
>> recent gcc/binutil versions on other architectures.
>
> After some further investigations, I'd say this isn't "caused" by LZ4
> specifically but by a more general problem with one of the nios2 arch
> specific tools involved.
>
> I manually enabled random additional CONFIG_* options and in some cases
> I got the kernel to boot (with CONFIG_RD_LZ4 enabled and no return
> -EINVAL in place) while in others I didn't. So I'd rather suspect this
> problem to be connected to the size or structure of the generated vmlinux
> image.
>
> Or could this even be a problem with qemu? Did anyone already verify
> this on the 10m50 devboard? (Unfortunately I don't have any nios2
> devboard available right now, otherwise I would have done this...)
>

That is of course always possible.

> Other than that I'm also becoming all but clueless... One option I
> thought of was using the QEMU monitor to dump the CPU state after the
> hang but so far I didn't manage to get it to work (hints appreciated ;)
>

Something like

qemu-system-nios2 -M 10m50-ghrd -kernel vmlinux -no-reboot \
	-dtb arch/nios2/boot/dts/10m50_devboard.dtb \
	--append "rdinit=/sbin/init" -initrd busybox-nios2.cpio

gives you a qemu monitor window. Use "info registers" to see registers.
Looks like it is stuck in init_bootmem_core, or at least that is what it
shows for me.

Guenter

Re: nios2 crash/hang in mainline due to 'lib: update LZ4 compressor module'

[Tobias Klauser]

On 2017-03-03 at 04:04:41 +0100, Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> wrote:
> On 03/02/2017 08:38 AM, Tobias Klauser wrote:
> >On 2017-03-01 at 20:45:21 +0100, Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> wrote:
> >>On Wed, Mar 01, 2017 at 07:58:17PM +0100, Sven Schmidt wrote:
> >>>Hi Guenter, Tobias and Sandra,
> >>>
> >>>thanks for your effort here.
> >>>
> >>>On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 10:14:13AM -0800, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> >>>>On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 10:53:56AM -0700, Sandra Loosemore wrote:
> >>>>>On 02/28/2017 08:53 AM, Tobias Klauser wrote:
> >>>>>>(adding Sandra Loosemore to Cc due to possible relation to gcc/binutils
> >>>>>>for nios2)
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>On 2017-02-26 at 22:03:38 +0100, Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> wrote:
> >>>>>>>Hi Sven,
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>my qemu test for nios2 started failing with commit 4e1a33b105dd ("lib:
> >>>>>>>update LZ4 compressor module"). The test hangs early during boot before
> >>>>>>>any console output is seen. Reverting the offending patch as well as the
> >>>>>>>subsequent lz4 related patches fixes the problem. Disabling CONFIG_RD_LZ4
> >>>>>>>and with it other LZ4 options also fixes it (as does adding "return -EINVAL;"
> >>>>>>>at the top of the LZ4 decompression code). For reference, bisect log
> >>>>>>>is attached.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>I tried with buildroot toolchains using gcc 6.1.0 as well as 6.3.0
> >>>>>>>and binutils 2.26.1. Scripts used to run the tests are available at
> >>>>>>>https://github.com/groeck/linux-build-test/tree/master/rootfs/nios2.
> >>>>>>>Qemu is from qemu mainline or qemu v2.8 with nios2 patches applied.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>Looks like this is somehow related to gcc/binutils. Using GCC 4.8.3 and
> >>>>>>binutils 2.24.51 (both from from Sourcery CodeBench Lite 2014.05) I can
> >>>>>>get a kernel booting on latest master branch. AFAICT, none of the
> >>>>>>LZ4_decompress_* functions are called during boot.
> >>>>>>
> >>>
> >>>It seems a bit strange that code which is not actually called causes problems like that.
> >>>
> >>Yes, it is, though it is always possible. The code isn't exactly easy to
> >>understand; there may be some hidden caveats such as global variables. It may
> >>also be that some jump target exceeds its range (though why that would only
> >>be seen with the LZ4 code is another question), or that the compiler gets
> >>confused by the forced inlines (disabling that didn't make a difference,
> >>though, nor did disabling -O3).
> >>
> >>>Please let me know if and how I may help you figure out what's happening, especially
> >>>regarding the differences between the previous LZ4 and the current implementation.
> >>>
> >>
> >>For my part I am all but clueless. Unless someone has an idea, we may to
> >>disable LZ4 support for nios2 for the time being. Does anyone have thoughts
> >>on that ? Of course, that would not help if the problem also affects
> >>recent gcc/binutil versions on other architectures.
> >
> >After some further investigations, I'd say this isn't "caused" by LZ4
> >specifically but by a more general problem with one of the nios2 arch
> >specific tools involved.
> >
> >I manually enabled random additional CONFIG_* options and in some cases
> >I got the kernel to boot (with CONFIG_RD_LZ4 enabled and no return
> >-EINVAL in place) while in others I didn't. So I'd rather suspect this
> >problem to be connected to the size or structure of the generated vmlinux
> >image.
> >
> >Or could this even be a problem with qemu? Did anyone already verify
> >this on the 10m50 devboard? (Unfortunately I don't have any nios2
> >devboard available right now, otherwise I would have done this...)
> >
> 
> That is of course always possible.
> 
> >Other than that I'm also becoming all but clueless... One option I
> >thought of was using the QEMU monitor to dump the CPU state after the
> >hang but so far I didn't manage to get it to work (hints appreciated ;)
> >
> 
> Something like
> 
> qemu-system-nios2 -M 10m50-ghrd -kernel vmlinux -no-reboot \
> 	-dtb arch/nios2/boot/dts/10m50_devboard.dtb \
> 	--append "rdinit=/sbin/init" -initrd busybox-nios2.cpio
> 
> gives you a qemu monitor window. Use "info registers" to see registers.
> Looks like it is stuck in init_bootmem_core, or at least that is what it
> shows for me.

Thanks a lot for the hint, this worked perfectly. I'm not all that
familiar with qemu :-/

Using the qemu gdbserver I can indeed confirm that it seems to be stuck
in init_bootmem_core:

(gdb) file vmlinux
Reading symbols from vmlinux...done.
(gdb) target remote localhost:1234
Remote debugging using localhost:1234
link_bootmem (bdata=<optimized out>) at mm/bootmem.c:80
80			if (bdata->node_min_pfn < ent->node_min_pfn) {

This looks like a very weird place for it to get stuck...

So I followed a different path and implemented early printk support for
the 8250/16650 serial console on nios2, so I could get debug outputs
earlier on (patch below, I'll also officially submit this later one).

Now I get the following output on boot:

Linux version 4.11.0-rc1-dirty (tobiask@ziws08) (gcc version 7.0.1 20170226 (experimental) (GCC) ) #46 Tue Mar 7 13:40:53 CET 2017
bootconsole [early0] enabled
Early console on uart16650 initialized at 0xf8001600
OF: fdt: Error -11 processing FDT
Kernel panic - not syncing: setup_cpuinfo: No CPU found in devicetree!

---[ end Kernel panic - not syncing: setup_cpuinfo: No CPU found in devicetree!

Looks like the in-memory device tree somehow gets corrupted. Not sure
yet why and how this is linked to the Kconfig options selected but at
least we now have a possibility to use debug messages earlier on.

---%<---%<---

Patch for 8250/16650 early printk support on nios2 (make sure to select
CONFIG_EARLY_PRINTK):

diff --git a/arch/nios2/Kconfig.debug b/arch/nios2/Kconfig.debug
index 2fd08cbfdddb..35b5dd67b15a 100644
--- a/arch/nios2/Kconfig.debug
+++ b/arch/nios2/Kconfig.debug
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ config EARLY_PRINTK
 	bool "Activate early kernel debugging"
 	default y
 	select SERIAL_CORE_CONSOLE
-	depends on SERIAL_ALTERA_JTAGUART_CONSOLE || SERIAL_ALTERA_UART_CONSOLE
+	depends on SERIAL_ALTERA_JTAGUART_CONSOLE || SERIAL_ALTERA_UART_CONSOLE || SERIAL_8250_CONSOLE
 	help
 	  Enable early printk on console
 	  This is useful for kernel debugging when your machine crashes very
diff --git a/arch/nios2/kernel/early_printk.c b/arch/nios2/kernel/early_printk.c
index c08e4c1486fc..24b4506f4969 100644
--- a/arch/nios2/kernel/early_printk.c
+++ b/arch/nios2/kernel/early_printk.c
@@ -22,6 +22,8 @@ static unsigned long base_addr;
 
 #if defined(CONFIG_SERIAL_ALTERA_JTAGUART_CONSOLE)
 
+#define UART_NAME "altera_jtaguart"
+
 #define ALTERA_JTAGUART_DATA_REG		0
 #define ALTERA_JTAGUART_CONTROL_REG		4
 #define ALTERA_JTAGUART_CONTROL_WSPACE_MSK	0xFFFF0000
@@ -53,6 +55,8 @@ static void early_console_write(struct console *con, const char *s, unsigned n)
 
 #elif defined(CONFIG_SERIAL_ALTERA_UART_CONSOLE)
 
+#define UART_NAME "altera_uart"
+
 #define ALTERA_UART_TXDATA_REG		4
 #define ALTERA_UART_STATUS_REG		8
 #define ALTERA_UART_STATUS_TRDY		0x0040
@@ -80,9 +84,40 @@ static void early_console_write(struct console *con, const char *s, unsigned n)
 	}
 }
 
+#elif defined(CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_CONSOLE)
+
+#define UART_NAME "uart16650"
+
+#define UART_LSR_TEMT	0x40 /* Transmitter empty */
+#define UART_LSR_THRE	0x20 /* Transmit-hold-register empty */
+#define BOTH_EMPTY (UART_LSR_TEMT | UART_LSR_THRE)
+
+#define UART_GET_SR() \
+	__builtin_ldwio((void *)(base_addr + 0x14))
+#define UART_SET_TX(v) \
+	__builtin_stwio((void *)(base_addr), v)
+
+static void early_console_putc(char c)
+{
+	while (!((UART_GET_SR() & BOTH_EMPTY) == BOTH_EMPTY))
+		;
+
+	UART_SET_TX(c & 0xff);
+}
+
+static void early_console_write(struct console *con, const char *s, unsigned n)
+{
+	while (n-- && *s) {
+		early_console_putc(*s);
+		if (*s == '\n')
+			early_console_putc('\r');
+		s++;
+	}
+}
+
 #else
-# error Neither SERIAL_ALTERA_JTAGUART_CONSOLE nor SERIAL_ALTERA_UART_CONSOLE \
-selected
+# error Neither SERIAL_ALTERA_JTAGUART_CONSOLE, SERIAL_ALTERA_UART_CONSOLE, \
+        nor SERIAL_8250_CONSOLE selected
 #endif
 
 static struct console early_console_prom = {
@@ -95,7 +130,8 @@ static struct console early_console_prom = {
 void __init setup_early_printk(void)
 {
 #if defined(CONFIG_SERIAL_ALTERA_JTAGUART_CONSOLE) ||	\
-	defined(CONFIG_SERIAL_ALTERA_UART_CONSOLE)
+	defined(CONFIG_SERIAL_ALTERA_UART_CONSOLE) ||	\
+	defined(CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_CONSOLE)
 	base_addr = of_early_console();
 #else
 	base_addr = 0;
@@ -114,5 +150,5 @@ void __init setup_early_printk(void)
 
 	early_console = &early_console_prom;
 	register_console(early_console);
-	pr_info("early_console initialized at 0x%08lx\n", base_addr);
+	pr_info("Early console on %s initialized at 0x%08lx\n", UART_NAME, base_addr);
 }

Re: nios2 crash/hang in mainline due to 'lib: update LZ4 compressor module'

[Guenter Roeck]

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On 03/07/2017 04:46 AM, Tobias Klauser wrote:
> On 2017-03-03 at 04:04:41 +0100, Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> wrote:
>> On 03/02/2017 08:38 AM, Tobias Klauser wrote:
>>> On 2017-03-01 at 20:45:21 +0100, Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> wrote:
>>>> On Wed, Mar 01, 2017 at 07:58:17PM +0100, Sven Schmidt wrote:
>>>>> Hi Guenter, Tobias and Sandra,
>>>>>
>>>>> thanks for your effort here.
>>>>>
>>>>> On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 10:14:13AM -0800, Guenter Roeck wrote:
>>>>>> On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 10:53:56AM -0700, Sandra Loosemore wrote:
>>>>>>> On 02/28/2017 08:53 AM, Tobias Klauser wrote:
>>>>>>>> (adding Sandra Loosemore to Cc due to possible relation to gcc/binutils
>>>>>>>> for nios2)
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On 2017-02-26 at 22:03:38 +0100, Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> wrote:
>>>>>>>>> Hi Sven,
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> my qemu test for nios2 started failing with commit 4e1a33b105dd ("lib:
>>>>>>>>> update LZ4 compressor module"). The test hangs early during boot before
>>>>>>>>> any console output is seen. Reverting the offending patch as well as the
>>>>>>>>> subsequent lz4 related patches fixes the problem. Disabling CONFIG_RD_LZ4
>>>>>>>>> and with it other LZ4 options also fixes it (as does adding "return -EINVAL;"
>>>>>>>>> at the top of the LZ4 decompression code). For reference, bisect log
>>>>>>>>> is attached.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> I tried with buildroot toolchains using gcc 6.1.0 as well as 6.3.0
>>>>>>>>> and binutils 2.26.1. Scripts used to run the tests are available at
>>>>>>>>> https://github.com/groeck/linux-build-test/tree/master/rootfs/nios2.
>>>>>>>>> Qemu is from qemu mainline or qemu v2.8 with nios2 patches applied.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Looks like this is somehow related to gcc/binutils. Using GCC 4.8.3 and
>>>>>>>> binutils 2.24.51 (both from from Sourcery CodeBench Lite 2014.05) I can
>>>>>>>> get a kernel booting on latest master branch. AFAICT, none of the
>>>>>>>> LZ4_decompress_* functions are called during boot.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> It seems a bit strange that code which is not actually called causes problems like that.
>>>>>
>>>> Yes, it is, though it is always possible. The code isn't exactly easy to
>>>> understand; there may be some hidden caveats such as global variables. It may
>>>> also be that some jump target exceeds its range (though why that would only
>>>> be seen with the LZ4 code is another question), or that the compiler gets
>>>> confused by the forced inlines (disabling that didn't make a difference,
>>>> though, nor did disabling -O3).
>>>>
>>>>> Please let me know if and how I may help you figure out what's happening, especially
>>>>> regarding the differences between the previous LZ4 and the current implementation.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> For my part I am all but clueless. Unless someone has an idea, we may to
>>>> disable LZ4 support for nios2 for the time being. Does anyone have thoughts
>>>> on that ? Of course, that would not help if the problem also affects
>>>> recent gcc/binutil versions on other architectures.
>>>
>>> After some further investigations, I'd say this isn't "caused" by LZ4
>>> specifically but by a more general problem with one of the nios2 arch
>>> specific tools involved.
>>>
>>> I manually enabled random additional CONFIG_* options and in some cases
>>> I got the kernel to boot (with CONFIG_RD_LZ4 enabled and no return
>>> -EINVAL in place) while in others I didn't. So I'd rather suspect this
>>> problem to be connected to the size or structure of the generated vmlinux
>>> image.
>>>
>>> Or could this even be a problem with qemu? Did anyone already verify
>>> this on the 10m50 devboard? (Unfortunately I don't have any nios2
>>> devboard available right now, otherwise I would have done this...)
>>>
>>
>> That is of course always possible.
>>
>>> Other than that I'm also becoming all but clueless... One option I
>>> thought of was using the QEMU monitor to dump the CPU state after the
>>> hang but so far I didn't manage to get it to work (hints appreciated ;)
>>>
>>
>> Something like
>>
>> qemu-system-nios2 -M 10m50-ghrd -kernel vmlinux -no-reboot \
>> 	-dtb arch/nios2/boot/dts/10m50_devboard.dtb \
>> 	--append "rdinit=/sbin/init" -initrd busybox-nios2.cpio
>>
>> gives you a qemu monitor window. Use "info registers" to see registers.
>> Looks like it is stuck in init_bootmem_core, or at least that is what it
>> shows for me.
>
> Thanks a lot for the hint, this worked perfectly. I'm not all that
> familiar with qemu :-/
>
> Using the qemu gdbserver I can indeed confirm that it seems to be stuck
> in init_bootmem_core:
>
> (gdb) file vmlinux
> Reading symbols from vmlinux...done.
> (gdb) target remote localhost:1234
> Remote debugging using localhost:1234
> link_bootmem (bdata=<optimized out>) at mm/bootmem.c:80
> 80			if (bdata->node_min_pfn < ent->node_min_pfn) {
>
> This looks like a very weird place for it to get stuck...
>
> So I followed a different path and implemented early printk support for
> the 8250/16650 serial console on nios2, so I could get debug outputs
> earlier on (patch below, I'll also officially submit this later one).
>

That is great; I'll add that to my own tests to get some output.

> Now I get the following output on boot:
>
> Linux version 4.11.0-rc1-dirty (tobiask@ziws08) (gcc version 7.0.1 20170226 (experimental) (GCC) ) #46 Tue Mar 7 13:40:53 CET 2017
> bootconsole [early0] enabled
> Early console on uart16650 initialized at 0xf8001600
> OF: fdt: Error -11 processing FDT
> Kernel panic - not syncing: setup_cpuinfo: No CPU found in devicetree!
>
> ---[ end Kernel panic - not syncing: setup_cpuinfo: No CPU found in devicetree!
>
> Looks like the in-memory device tree somehow gets corrupted. Not sure
> yet why and how this is linked to the Kconfig options selected but at
> least we now have a possibility to use debug messages earlier on.
>
Interesting. I was able to confirm that the lz4 patch is not the root
cause. I was not able to reproduce the problem in v4.10, but after
adding more and more configuration options I get it to fail starting
with commit ac1820fb286b552 ("Merge tag 'for-next-dma_ops' of
git://git.kernel.org/pub/ scm/linux/kernel/git/dledford/rdma").
No idea if that is the root cause either. Kernel configuration for that
case is attached.

Of course ac1820fb286b552 doesn't crash anymore with that after applying
your patch below, and v4.11-rc1 crashes without any output :-(.

I think I'll add some logging into qemu to see where it puts the dtb.

Guenter


> ---%<---%<---
>
> Patch for 8250/16650 early printk support on nios2 (make sure to select
> CONFIG_EARLY_PRINTK):
>
> diff --git a/arch/nios2/Kconfig.debug b/arch/nios2/Kconfig.debug
> index 2fd08cbfdddb..35b5dd67b15a 100644
> --- a/arch/nios2/Kconfig.debug
> +++ b/arch/nios2/Kconfig.debug
> @@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ config EARLY_PRINTK
>  	bool "Activate early kernel debugging"
>  	default y
>  	select SERIAL_CORE_CONSOLE
> -	depends on SERIAL_ALTERA_JTAGUART_CONSOLE || SERIAL_ALTERA_UART_CONSOLE
> +	depends on SERIAL_ALTERA_JTAGUART_CONSOLE || SERIAL_ALTERA_UART_CONSOLE || SERIAL_8250_CONSOLE
>  	help
>  	  Enable early printk on console
>  	  This is useful for kernel debugging when your machine crashes very
> diff --git a/arch/nios2/kernel/early_printk.c b/arch/nios2/kernel/early_printk.c
> index c08e4c1486fc..24b4506f4969 100644
> --- a/arch/nios2/kernel/early_printk.c
> +++ b/arch/nios2/kernel/early_printk.c
> @@ -22,6 +22,8 @@ static unsigned long base_addr;
>
>  #if defined(CONFIG_SERIAL_ALTERA_JTAGUART_CONSOLE)
>
> +#define UART_NAME "altera_jtaguart"
> +
>  #define ALTERA_JTAGUART_DATA_REG		0
>  #define ALTERA_JTAGUART_CONTROL_REG		4
>  #define ALTERA_JTAGUART_CONTROL_WSPACE_MSK	0xFFFF0000
> @@ -53,6 +55,8 @@ static void early_console_write(struct console *con, const char *s, unsigned n)
>
>  #elif defined(CONFIG_SERIAL_ALTERA_UART_CONSOLE)
>
> +#define UART_NAME "altera_uart"
> +
>  #define ALTERA_UART_TXDATA_REG		4
>  #define ALTERA_UART_STATUS_REG		8
>  #define ALTERA_UART_STATUS_TRDY		0x0040
> @@ -80,9 +84,40 @@ static void early_console_write(struct console *con, const char *s, unsigned n)
>  	}
>  }
>
> +#elif defined(CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_CONSOLE)
> +
> +#define UART_NAME "uart16650"
> +
> +#define UART_LSR_TEMT	0x40 /* Transmitter empty */
> +#define UART_LSR_THRE	0x20 /* Transmit-hold-register empty */
> +#define BOTH_EMPTY (UART_LSR_TEMT | UART_LSR_THRE)
> +
> +#define UART_GET_SR() \
> +	__builtin_ldwio((void *)(base_addr + 0x14))
> +#define UART_SET_TX(v) \
> +	__builtin_stwio((void *)(base_addr), v)
> +
> +static void early_console_putc(char c)
> +{
> +	while (!((UART_GET_SR() & BOTH_EMPTY) == BOTH_EMPTY))
> +		;
> +
> +	UART_SET_TX(c & 0xff);
> +}
> +
> +static void early_console_write(struct console *con, const char *s, unsigned n)
> +{
> +	while (n-- && *s) {
> +		early_console_putc(*s);
> +		if (*s == '\n')
> +			early_console_putc('\r');
> +		s++;
> +	}
> +}
> +
>  #else
> -# error Neither SERIAL_ALTERA_JTAGUART_CONSOLE nor SERIAL_ALTERA_UART_CONSOLE \
> -selected
> +# error Neither SERIAL_ALTERA_JTAGUART_CONSOLE, SERIAL_ALTERA_UART_CONSOLE, \
> +        nor SERIAL_8250_CONSOLE selected
>  #endif
>
>  static struct console early_console_prom = {
> @@ -95,7 +130,8 @@ static struct console early_console_prom = {
>  void __init setup_early_printk(void)
>  {
>  #if defined(CONFIG_SERIAL_ALTERA_JTAGUART_CONSOLE) ||	\
> -	defined(CONFIG_SERIAL_ALTERA_UART_CONSOLE)
> +	defined(CONFIG_SERIAL_ALTERA_UART_CONSOLE) ||	\
> +	defined(CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_CONSOLE)
>  	base_addr = of_early_console();
>  #else
>  	base_addr = 0;
> @@ -114,5 +150,5 @@ void __init setup_early_printk(void)
>
>  	early_console = &early_console_prom;
>  	register_console(early_console);
> -	pr_info("early_console initialized at 0x%08lx\n", base_addr);
> +	pr_info("Early console on %s initialized at 0x%08lx\n", UART_NAME, base_addr);
>  }
>


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CONFIG_SYSVIPC=y
CONFIG_NO_HZ_IDLE=y
CONFIG_BSD_PROCESS_ACCT=y
CONFIG_LOG_BUF_SHIFT=14
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD=y
CONFIG_SYSCTL_SYSCALL=y
# CONFIG_ELF_CORE is not set
# CONFIG_EPOLL is not set
# CONFIG_SIGNALFD is not set
# CONFIG_TIMERFD is not set
# CONFIG_EVENTFD is not set
# CONFIG_SHMEM is not set
# CONFIG_AIO is not set
CONFIG_EMBEDDED=y
CONFIG_SLAB=y
CONFIG_MODULES=y
CONFIG_MODULE_UNLOAD=y
CONFIG_NIOS2_MEM_BASE=0x8000000
CONFIG_NIOS2_HW_MUL_SUPPORT=y
CONFIG_NIOS2_HW_DIV_SUPPORT=y
CONFIG_CUSTOM_CACHE_SETTINGS=y
CONFIG_NIOS2_DCACHE_SIZE=0x8000
CONFIG_NIOS2_ICACHE_SIZE=0x8000
# CONFIG_NIOS2_CMDLINE_IGNORE_DTB is not set
CONFIG_NIOS2_PASS_CMDLINE=y
CONFIG_BINFMT_MISC=y
CONFIG_NET=y
CONFIG_PACKET=y
CONFIG_UNIX=y
CONFIG_INET=y
CONFIG_IP_MULTICAST=y
CONFIG_IP_PNP=y
CONFIG_IP_PNP_DHCP=y
CONFIG_IP_PNP_BOOTP=y
CONFIG_IP_PNP_RARP=y
CONFIG_NET_IPIP=y
CONFIG_NET_IPGRE_DEMUX=y
CONFIG_NET_IPGRE=y
CONFIG_NET_IPGRE_BROADCAST=y
CONFIG_IP_MROUTE=y
CONFIG_IP_PIMSM_V1=y
CONFIG_IP_PIMSM_V2=y
CONFIG_SYN_COOKIES=y
CONFIG_NET_FOU_IP_TUNNELS=y
CONFIG_INET_AH=y
CONFIG_INET_ESP=y
CONFIG_INET_ESP_OFFLOAD=y
CONFIG_INET_IPCOMP=y
CONFIG_INET_UDP_DIAG=y
CONFIG_INET_RAW_DIAG=y
CONFIG_INET_DIAG_DESTROY=y
CONFIG_TCP_CONG_ADVANCED=y
CONFIG_TCP_CONG_BIC=y
CONFIG_TCP_CONG_WESTWOOD=y
CONFIG_TCP_CONG_HTCP=y
CONFIG_TCP_CONG_HSTCP=y
CONFIG_TCP_CONG_HYBLA=y
CONFIG_TCP_CONG_NV=y
CONFIG_TCP_CONG_SCALABLE=y
CONFIG_TCP_CONG_LP=y
CONFIG_TCP_CONG_VENO=y
CONFIG_TCP_CONG_YEAH=y
CONFIG_TCP_CONG_ILLINOIS=y
CONFIG_TCP_CONG_DCTCP=y
CONFIG_TCP_CONG_CDG=y
CONFIG_TCP_CONG_BBR=y
CONFIG_NETWORK_SECMARK=y
CONFIG_BRIDGE=y
CONFIG_VLAN_8021Q=y
CONFIG_BT=y
CONFIG_CFG80211=y
CONFIG_NL80211_TESTMODE=y
CONFIG_CFG80211_DEVELOPER_WARNINGS=y
CONFIG_CFG80211_CERTIFICATION_ONUS=y
CONFIG_CFG80211_REG_CELLULAR_HINTS=y
CONFIG_CFG80211_REG_RELAX_NO_IR=y
CONFIG_CFG80211_DEBUGFS=y
CONFIG_CFG80211_INTERNAL_REGDB=y
CONFIG_CFG80211_WEXT=y
CONFIG_MAC80211=y
CONFIG_MAC80211_MESH=y
CONFIG_MAC80211_LEDS=y
CONFIG_MAC80211_DEBUGFS=y
CONFIG_MAC80211_MESSAGE_TRACING=y
CONFIG_UEVENT_HELPER_PATH="/sbin/hotplug"
CONFIG_DEVTMPFS=y
CONFIG_DEVTMPFS_MOUNT=y
# CONFIG_FW_LOADER is not set
CONFIG_MTD=y
CONFIG_MTD_CMDLINE_PARTS=y
CONFIG_MTD_BLOCK=y
CONFIG_MTD_CFI=y
CONFIG_MTD_CFI_INTELEXT=y
CONFIG_MTD_CFI_AMDSTD=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_LOOP=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_NVME_SCSI=y
CONFIG_NVME_FC=y
CONFIG_NVME_TARGET=y
CONFIG_NVME_TARGET_LOOP=y
CONFIG_NVME_TARGET_FC=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SD=y
CONFIG_CHR_DEV_ST=y
CONFIG_CHR_DEV_OSST=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SR=y
CONFIG_CHR_DEV_SG=y
CONFIG_ATA=y
CONFIG_MD=y
CONFIG_NETDEVICES=y
CONFIG_ALTERA_TSE=y
CONFIG_MARVELL_PHY=y
# CONFIG_WLAN is not set
CONFIG_NVM=y
# CONFIG_INPUT_MOUSE is not set
# CONFIG_VT is not set
CONFIG_SERIAL_8250=y
# CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_DEPRECATED_OPTIONS is not set
CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_CONSOLE=y
CONFIG_SERIAL_OF_PLATFORM=y
CONFIG_SERIAL_ALTERA_JTAGUART=y
# CONFIG_HW_RANDOM is not set
CONFIG_I2C_CHARDEV=y
CONFIG_I2C_ARB_GPIO_CHALLENGE=y
CONFIG_I2C_MUX_GPIO=y
CONFIG_I2C_MUX_PCA9541=y
CONFIG_I2C_MUX_PCA954x=y
CONFIG_I2C_MUX_REG=y
CONFIG_I2C_MUX_MLXCPLD=y
CONFIG_I2C_DESIGNWARE_PLATFORM=y
CONFIG_I2C_GPIO=y
CONFIG_I2C_OCORES=y
CONFIG_I2C_PCA_PLATFORM=y
CONFIG_I2C_SIMTEC=y
CONFIG_I2C_XILINX=y
CONFIG_I2C_DIOLAN_U2C=y
CONFIG_I2C_PARPORT_LIGHT=y
CONFIG_I2C_ROBOTFUZZ_OSIF=y
CONFIG_I2C_TAOS_EVM=y
CONFIG_I2C_TINY_USB=y
CONFIG_I2C_SLAVE=y
CONFIG_I2C_SLAVE_EEPROM=y
CONFIG_I2C_DEBUG_CORE=y
CONFIG_I2C_DEBUG_ALGO=y
CONFIG_I2C_DEBUG_BUS=y
CONFIG_SPI=y
CONFIG_SPI_ALTERA=y
CONFIG_SPI_CADENCE=y
CONFIG_SPI_DESIGNWARE=y
CONFIG_SPI_GPIO=y
CONFIG_SPI_OC_TINY=y
CONFIG_SPI_ROCKCHIP=y
CONFIG_SPI_SC18IS602=y
CONFIG_SPI_XCOMM=y
CONFIG_SPI_XILINX=y
CONFIG_SPI_ZYNQMP_GQSPI=y
CONFIG_SPI_SPIDEV=y
CONFIG_SPI_TLE62X0=y
CONFIG_GPIOLIB=y
CONFIG_GPIO_SYSFS=y
CONFIG_GPIO_ALTERA=y
CONFIG_POWER_RESET=y
CONFIG_POWER_SUPPLY=y
CONFIG_SENSORS_AD7314=y
CONFIG_SENSORS_AD7414=y
CONFIG_SENSORS_AD7418=y
CONFIG_SENSORS_ADM1021=y
CONFIG_SENSORS_ADM1025=y
CONFIG_SENSORS_ADM1026=y
CONFIG_SENSORS_ADM1029=y
CONFIG_SENSORS_ADT7411=y
CONFIG_SENSORS_ADT7462=y
CONFIG_SENSORS_ADT7470=y
CONFIG_SENSORS_ADT7475=y
CONFIG_SENSORS_DS620=y
CONFIG_SENSORS_DS1621=y
CONFIG_SENSORS_G760A=y
CONFIG_SENSORS_G762=y
CONFIG_SENSORS_GPIO_FAN=y
CONFIG_SENSORS_LTC2945=y
CONFIG_SENSORS_LTC2990=y
CONFIG_SENSORS_LTC4151=y
CONFIG_SENSORS_LTC4215=y
CONFIG_SENSORS_LTC4222=y
CONFIG_SENSORS_LTC4245=y
CONFIG_SENSORS_LTC4260=y
CONFIG_SENSORS_LTC4261=y
CONFIG_SENSORS_MAX1111=y
CONFIG_SENSORS_MAX16065=y
CONFIG_SENSORS_MAX1619=y
CONFIG_SENSORS_MAX1668=y
CONFIG_SENSORS_MAX197=y
CONFIG_SENSORS_MAX31722=y
CONFIG_SENSORS_MAX6639=y
CONFIG_SENSORS_MAX6642=y
CONFIG_SENSORS_MAX6650=y
CONFIG_SENSORS_MAX6697=y
CONFIG_SENSORS_MAX31790=y
CONFIG_SENSORS_MCP3021=y
CONFIG_SENSORS_TC654=y
CONFIG_SENSORS_ADCXX=y
CONFIG_SENSORS_LM63=y
CONFIG_SENSORS_LM70=y
CONFIG_SENSORS_LM73=y
CONFIG_SENSORS_LM75=y
CONFIG_SENSORS_LM77=y
CONFIG_SENSORS_LM78=y
CONFIG_SENSORS_LM80=y
CONFIG_SENSORS_LM83=y
CONFIG_SENSORS_LM85=y
CONFIG_SENSORS_LM87=y
CONFIG_SENSORS_LM90=y
CONFIG_SENSORS_LM92=y
CONFIG_SENSORS_LM93=y
CONFIG_SENSORS_LM95234=y
CONFIG_SENSORS_LM95241=y
CONFIG_SENSORS_LM95245=y
CONFIG_SENSORS_NTC_THERMISTOR=y
CONFIG_SENSORS_NCT7802=y
CONFIG_SENSORS_NCT7904=y
CONFIG_PMBUS=y
CONFIG_SENSORS_ADM1275=y
CONFIG_SENSORS_LM25066=y
CONFIG_SENSORS_LTC2978=y
CONFIG_SENSORS_LTC3815=y
CONFIG_SENSORS_MAX16064=y
CONFIG_SENSORS_MAX20751=y
CONFIG_SENSORS_MAX34440=y
CONFIG_SENSORS_MAX8688=y
CONFIG_SENSORS_TPS40422=y
CONFIG_SENSORS_UCD9000=y
CONFIG_SENSORS_UCD9200=y
CONFIG_SENSORS_ZL6100=y
CONFIG_SENSORS_INA209=y
CONFIG_THERMAL=y
CONFIG_WATCHDOG=y
CONFIG_MFD_ACT8945A=y
CONFIG_MFD_AS3711=y
CONFIG_PMIC_ADP5520=y
CONFIG_MFD_AAT2870_CORE=y
CONFIG_PMIC_DA903X=y
CONFIG_MFD_DA9052_SPI=y
CONFIG_MFD_DA9052_I2C=y
CONFIG_MFD_DA9055=y
CONFIG_MFD_DA9062=y
CONFIG_MFD_DA9063=y
CONFIG_MFD_DA9150=y
CONFIG_MFD_DLN2=y
CONFIG_MFD_MC13XXX_SPI=y
CONFIG_MFD_MC13XXX_I2C=y
CONFIG_MFD_HI6421_PMIC=y
CONFIG_HTC_PASIC3=y
CONFIG_HTC_I2CPLD=y
CONFIG_INTEL_SOC_PMIC=y
CONFIG_MFD_88PM800=y
CONFIG_MFD_88PM805=y
CONFIG_MFD_MAX14577=y
CONFIG_MFD_MAX77620=y
CONFIG_MFD_MAX77686=y
CONFIG_MFD_MAX77693=y
CONFIG_MFD_MAX77843=y
CONFIG_MFD_MAX8907=y
CONFIG_MFD_MAX8925=y
CONFIG_MFD_MAX8997=y
CONFIG_MFD_MAX8998=y
CONFIG_MFD_MT6397=y
CONFIG_REGULATOR=y
CONFIG_REGULATOR_FIXED_VOLTAGE=y
CONFIG_REGULATOR_VIRTUAL_CONSUMER=y
CONFIG_REGULATOR_USERSPACE_CONSUMER=y
CONFIG_REGULATOR_ACT8865=y
CONFIG_REGULATOR_AD5398=y
CONFIG_REGULATOR_DA903X=y
CONFIG_REGULATOR_DA9052=y
CONFIG_REGULATOR_DA9055=y
CONFIG_REGULATOR_DA9062=y
CONFIG_REGULATOR_DA9063=y
CONFIG_REGULATOR_DA9210=y
CONFIG_REGULATOR_DA9211=y
CONFIG_REGULATOR_FAN53555=y
CONFIG_REGULATOR_GPIO=y
CONFIG_REGULATOR_HI6421=y
CONFIG_REGULATOR_ISL9305=y
CONFIG_REGULATOR_ISL6271A=y
CONFIG_REGULATOR_LP3971=y
CONFIG_REGULATOR_LP3972=y
CONFIG_REGULATOR_LP872X=y
CONFIG_REGULATOR_LP8755=y
CONFIG_REGULATOR_LTC3589=y
CONFIG_REGULATOR_LTC3676=y
CONFIG_REGULATOR_MAX14577=y
CONFIG_REGULATOR_MAX1586=y
CONFIG_REGULATOR_MAX77620=y
CONFIG_REGULATOR_MAX8649=y
CONFIG_REGULATOR_MAX8660=y
CONFIG_REGULATOR_MAX8907=y
CONFIG_REGULATOR_MAX8925=y
CONFIG_REGULATOR_MAX8952=y
CONFIG_REGULATOR_MAX8973=y
CONFIG_REGULATOR_MAX8997=y
CONFIG_REGULATOR_MAX8998=y
CONFIG_REGULATOR_MAX77686=y
CONFIG_REGULATOR_MAX77693=y
CONFIG_REGULATOR_MAX77802=y
CONFIG_REGULATOR_MC13783=y
CONFIG_REGULATOR_MC13892=y
CONFIG_REGULATOR_MT6311=y
CONFIG_REGULATOR_MT6323=y
CONFIG_REGULATOR_MT6397=y
CONFIG_REGULATOR_PFUZE100=y
CONFIG_REGULATOR_PV88060=y
CONFIG_REGULATOR_PV88080=y
CONFIG_REGULATOR_PV88090=y
CONFIG_REGULATOR_TPS51632=y
CONFIG_REGULATOR_TPS62360=y
CONFIG_REGULATOR_TPS65023=y
CONFIG_REGULATOR_TPS6507X=y
CONFIG_REGULATOR_TPS6524X=y
CONFIG_MEDIA_SUPPORT=y
CONFIG_MEDIA_CAMERA_SUPPORT=y
CONFIG_MEDIA_ANALOG_TV_SUPPORT=y
CONFIG_MEDIA_DIGITAL_TV_SUPPORT=y
CONFIG_MEDIA_RADIO_SUPPORT=y
CONFIG_MEDIA_SDR_SUPPORT=y
CONFIG_MEDIA_RC_SUPPORT=y
CONFIG_MEDIA_CEC_SUPPORT=y
CONFIG_MEDIA_CONTROLLER=y
CONFIG_VIDEO_V4L2_SUBDEV_API=y
CONFIG_VIDEO_ADV_DEBUG=y
CONFIG_VIDEO_FIXED_MINOR_RANGES=y
CONFIG_DVB_DYNAMIC_MINORS=y
CONFIG_DVB_DEMUX_SECTION_LOSS_LOG=y
CONFIG_USB=y
CONFIG_USB_DYNAMIC_MINORS=y
CONFIG_USB_XHCI_HCD=y
CONFIG_USB_EHCI_HCD=y
CONFIG_USB_EHCI_ROOT_HUB_TT=y
CONFIG_USB_OXU210HP_HCD=y
CONFIG_USB_ISP116X_HCD=y
CONFIG_USB_ISP1362_HCD=y
CONFIG_USB_FOTG210_HCD=y
CONFIG_USB_MAX3421_HCD=y
CONFIG_USB_OHCI_HCD=y
CONFIG_USB_SL811_HCD=y
CONFIG_USB_R8A66597_HCD=y
CONFIG_USB_ACM=y
CONFIG_USB_STORAGE=y
CONFIG_USB_STORAGE_SDDR09=y
CONFIG_USB_STORAGE_SDDR55=y
CONFIG_USB_STORAGE_JUMPSHOT=y
CONFIG_USB_STORAGE_ALAUDA=y
CONFIG_USB_STORAGE_ONETOUCH=y
CONFIG_USB_STORAGE_KARMA=y
CONFIG_USB_STORAGE_CYPRESS_ATACB=y
CONFIG_USB_UAS=y
CONFIG_USBIP_CORE=y
CONFIG_USB_DWC3=y
CONFIG_USB_DWC2=y
CONFIG_USB_ISP1760=y
CONFIG_NEW_LEDS=y
CONFIG_LEDS_CLASS=y
CONFIG_LEDS_GPIO=y
CONFIG_LEDS_TRIGGER_HEARTBEAT=y
CONFIG_IIO=y
CONFIG_IIO_BUFFER_CB=y
CONFIG_IIO_SW_DEVICE=y
CONFIG_IIO_SW_TRIGGER=y
CONFIG_BMA180=y
CONFIG_BMA220=y
CONFIG_BMC150_ACCEL=y
CONFIG_DA280=y
CONFIG_DA311=y
CONFIG_DMARD06=y
CONFIG_DMARD09=y
CONFIG_DMARD10=y
CONFIG_IIO_ST_ACCEL_3AXIS=y
CONFIG_KXSD9=y
CONFIG_KXCJK1013=y
CONFIG_MC3230=y
CONFIG_MMA7455_I2C=y
CONFIG_MMA7455_SPI=y
CONFIG_MMA7660=y
CONFIG_MMA8452=y
CONFIG_MMA9551=y
CONFIG_MMA9553=y
CONFIG_MXC4005=y
CONFIG_MXC6255=y
CONFIG_SCA3000=y
CONFIG_STK8312=y
CONFIG_STK8BA50=y
CONFIG_AM2315=y
CONFIG_DHT11=y
CONFIG_HDC100X=y
CONFIG_HTS221=y
CONFIG_HTU21=y
CONFIG_SI7005=y
CONFIG_SI7020=y
CONFIG_ADJD_S311=y
CONFIG_AL3320A=y
CONFIG_APDS9300=y
CONFIG_APDS9960=y
CONFIG_BH1750=y
CONFIG_BH1780=y
CONFIG_CM32181=y
CONFIG_CM3232=y
CONFIG_CM3323=y
CONFIG_CM3605=y
CONFIG_CM36651=y
CONFIG_GP2AP020A00F=y
CONFIG_SENSORS_ISL29018=y
CONFIG_ISL29125=y
CONFIG_JSA1212=y
CONFIG_RPR0521=y
CONFIG_LTR501=y
CONFIG_MAX44000=y
CONFIG_OPT3001=y
CONFIG_PA12203001=y
CONFIG_SI1145=y
CONFIG_STK3310=y
CONFIG_TCS3414=y
CONFIG_TCS3472=y
CONFIG_SENSORS_TSL2563=y
CONFIG_TSL2583=y
CONFIG_TSL4531=y
CONFIG_US5182D=y
CONFIG_VCNL4000=y
CONFIG_VEML6070=y
CONFIG_EXT3_FS=y
CONFIG_BTRFS_FS=y
CONFIG_BTRFS_FS_POSIX_ACL=y
CONFIG_EXPORTFS_BLOCK_OPS=y
# CONFIG_DNOTIFY is not set
# CONFIG_INOTIFY_USER is not set
CONFIG_OVERLAY_FS=y
CONFIG_ISO9660_FS=y
CONFIG_UDF_FS=y
CONFIG_MSDOS_FS=y
CONFIG_VFAT_FS=y
CONFIG_NTFS_FS=y
CONFIG_NTFS_DEBUG=y
CONFIG_NTFS_RW=y
CONFIG_JFFS2_FS=y
CONFIG_SQUASHFS=y
CONFIG_SQUASHFS_LZ4=y
CONFIG_SQUASHFS_LZO=y
CONFIG_SQUASHFS_XZ=y
CONFIG_NFS_FS=y
CONFIG_NFS_V3_ACL=y
CONFIG_ROOT_NFS=y
CONFIG_SUNRPC_DEBUG=y
CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO=y
# CONFIG_ENABLE_WARN_DEPRECATED is not set
CONFIG_PANIC_ON_OOPS=y
CONFIG_SCHED_STACK_END_CHECK=y

Re: nios2 crash/hang in mainline due to 'lib: update LZ4 compressor module'

[Guenter Roeck]

On 03/07/2017 04:46 AM, Tobias Klauser wrote:
[ ... ]

>
> Linux version 4.11.0-rc1-dirty (tobiask@ziws08) (gcc version 7.0.1 20170226 (experimental) (GCC) ) #46 Tue Mar 7 13:40:53 CET 2017
> bootconsole [early0] enabled
> Early console on uart16650 initialized at 0xf8001600
> OF: fdt: Error -11 processing FDT
> Kernel panic - not syncing: setup_cpuinfo: No CPU found in devicetree!
>
> ---[ end Kernel panic - not syncing: setup_cpuinfo: No CPU found in devicetree!
>
> Looks like the in-memory device tree somehow gets corrupted. Not sure
> yet why and how this is linked to the Kconfig options selected but at
> least we now have a possibility to use debug messages earlier on.
>

I think I found the problem. In unflatten_and_copy_device_tree(), with added
debug information:

OF: fdt: initial_boot_params=c861e400, dt=c861f000 size=28874 (0x70ca)

... and then initial_boot_params is copied to dt, which results in corrupted
fdt since the memory overlaps. Looks like the initial_boot_params memory
is not reserved and (re-)allocated by early_init_dt_alloc_memory_arch().

Guenter

Re: nios2 crash/hang in mainline due to 'lib: update LZ4 compressor module'

[Tobias Klauser]

On 2017-03-09 at 14:20:51 +0100, Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> wrote:
> On 03/07/2017 04:46 AM, Tobias Klauser wrote:
> [ ... ]
> 
> >
> >Linux version 4.11.0-rc1-dirty (tobiask@ziws08) (gcc version 7.0.1 20170226 (experimental) (GCC) ) #46 Tue Mar 7 13:40:53 CET 2017
> >bootconsole [early0] enabled
> >Early console on uart16650 initialized at 0xf8001600
> >OF: fdt: Error -11 processing FDT
> >Kernel panic - not syncing: setup_cpuinfo: No CPU found in devicetree!
> >
> >---[ end Kernel panic - not syncing: setup_cpuinfo: No CPU found in devicetree!
> >
> >Looks like the in-memory device tree somehow gets corrupted. Not sure
> >yet why and how this is linked to the Kconfig options selected but at
> >least we now have a possibility to use debug messages earlier on.
> >
> 
> I think I found the problem. In unflatten_and_copy_device_tree(), with added
> debug information:
> 
> OF: fdt: initial_boot_params=c861e400, dt=c861f000 size=28874 (0x70ca)
> 
> ... and then initial_boot_params is copied to dt, which results in corrupted
> fdt since the memory overlaps. Looks like the initial_boot_params memory
> is not reserved and (re-)allocated by early_init_dt_alloc_memory_arch().

Thanks for the analysis. That certainly explains the issue. The
following patch solves the issue for me. Though I'm not entirely sure if
it is correct and that is all that is needed. Do we need to retain the
memory for initial_boot_params after bootmem is freed?

diff --git a/arch/nios2/kernel/prom.c b/arch/nios2/kernel/prom.c
index 099f5ce1f3cb..6869fe03f3ff 100644
--- a/arch/nios2/kernel/prom.c
+++ b/arch/nios2/kernel/prom.c
@@ -48,6 +48,13 @@ void * __init early_init_dt_alloc_memory_arch(u64 size, u64 align)
 	return alloc_bootmem_align(size, align);
 }
 
+int __init early_init_dt_reserve_memory_arch(phys_addr_t base,
+					phys_addr_t size, bool nomap)
+{
+	reserve_bootmem(base, size, BOOTMEM_DEFAULT);
+	return 0;
+}
+
 void __init early_init_devtree(void *params)
 {
 	__be32 *dtb = (u32 *)__dtb_start;
diff --git a/arch/nios2/kernel/setup.c b/arch/nios2/kernel/setup.c
index 6e57ffa5db27..6044d9be28b4 100644
--- a/arch/nios2/kernel/setup.c
+++ b/arch/nios2/kernel/setup.c
@@ -201,6 +201,9 @@ void __init setup_arch(char **cmdline_p)
 	}
 #endif /* CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD */
 
+	early_init_fdt_reserve_self();
+	early_init_fdt_scan_reserved_mem();
+
 	unflatten_and_copy_device_tree();
 
 	setup_cpuinfo();

Re: nios2 crash/hang in mainline due to 'lib: update LZ4 compressor module'

[Guenter Roeck]

On Thu, Mar 09, 2017 at 03:43:40PM +0100, Tobias Klauser wrote:
> On 2017-03-09 at 14:20:51 +0100, Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> wrote:
> > On 03/07/2017 04:46 AM, Tobias Klauser wrote:
> > [ ... ]
> > 
> > >
> > >Linux version 4.11.0-rc1-dirty (tobiask@ziws08) (gcc version 7.0.1 20170226 (experimental) (GCC) ) #46 Tue Mar 7 13:40:53 CET 2017
> > >bootconsole [early0] enabled
> > >Early console on uart16650 initialized at 0xf8001600
> > >OF: fdt: Error -11 processing FDT
> > >Kernel panic - not syncing: setup_cpuinfo: No CPU found in devicetree!
> > >
> > >---[ end Kernel panic - not syncing: setup_cpuinfo: No CPU found in devicetree!
> > >
> > >Looks like the in-memory device tree somehow gets corrupted. Not sure
> > >yet why and how this is linked to the Kconfig options selected but at
> > >least we now have a possibility to use debug messages earlier on.
> > >
> > 
> > I think I found the problem. In unflatten_and_copy_device_tree(), with added
> > debug information:
> > 
> > OF: fdt: initial_boot_params=c861e400, dt=c861f000 size=28874 (0x70ca)
> > 
> > ... and then initial_boot_params is copied to dt, which results in corrupted
> > fdt since the memory overlaps. Looks like the initial_boot_params memory
> > is not reserved and (re-)allocated by early_init_dt_alloc_memory_arch().
> 
> Thanks for the analysis. That certainly explains the issue. The
> following patch solves the issue for me. Though I'm not entirely sure if
> it is correct and that is all that is needed. Do we need to retain the
> memory for initial_boot_params after bootmem is freed?
> 

I don't know if it is correct either, but it matches what I came up with,
and it does work for me as well. Feel free to add

Tested-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>

when you submit the patch for real.

Thanks,
Guenter

> diff --git a/arch/nios2/kernel/prom.c b/arch/nios2/kernel/prom.c
> index 099f5ce1f3cb..6869fe03f3ff 100644
> --- a/arch/nios2/kernel/prom.c
> +++ b/arch/nios2/kernel/prom.c
> @@ -48,6 +48,13 @@ void * __init early_init_dt_alloc_memory_arch(u64 size, u64 align)
>  	return alloc_bootmem_align(size, align);
>  }
>  
> +int __init early_init_dt_reserve_memory_arch(phys_addr_t base,
> +					phys_addr_t size, bool nomap)
> +{
> +	reserve_bootmem(base, size, BOOTMEM_DEFAULT);
> +	return 0;
> +}
> +
>  void __init early_init_devtree(void *params)
>  {
>  	__be32 *dtb = (u32 *)__dtb_start;
> diff --git a/arch/nios2/kernel/setup.c b/arch/nios2/kernel/setup.c
> index 6e57ffa5db27..6044d9be28b4 100644
> --- a/arch/nios2/kernel/setup.c
> +++ b/arch/nios2/kernel/setup.c
> @@ -201,6 +201,9 @@ void __init setup_arch(char **cmdline_p)
>  	}
>  #endif /* CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD */
>  
> +	early_init_fdt_reserve_self();
> +	early_init_fdt_scan_reserved_mem();
> +
>  	unflatten_and_copy_device_tree();
>  
>  	setup_cpuinfo();

Re: nios2 crash/hang in mainline due to 'lib: update LZ4 compressor module'

[Sandra Loosemore]

On 03/01/2017 11:58 AM, Sven Schmidt wrote:
> Hi Guenter, Tobias and Sandra,
>
> thanks for your effort here.
>
> On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 10:14:13AM -0800, Guenter Roeck wrote:
>> On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 10:53:56AM -0700, Sandra Loosemore wrote:
>>> On 02/28/2017 08:53 AM, Tobias Klauser wrote:
>>>> (adding Sandra Loosemore to Cc due to possible relation to gcc/binutils
>>>> for nios2)
>>>>
>>>> On 2017-02-26 at 22:03:38 +0100, Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> wrote:
>>>>> Hi Sven,
>>>>>
>>>>> my qemu test for nios2 started failing with commit 4e1a33b105dd ("lib:
>>>>> update LZ4 compressor module"). The test hangs early during boot before
>>>>> any console output is seen. Reverting the offending patch as well as the
>>>>> subsequent lz4 related patches fixes the problem. Disabling CONFIG_RD_LZ4
>>>>> and with it other LZ4 options also fixes it (as does adding "return -EINVAL;"
>>>>> at the top of the LZ4 decompression code). For reference, bisect log
>>>>> is attached.
>>>>>
>>>>> I tried with buildroot toolchains using gcc 6.1.0 as well as 6.3.0
>>>>> and binutils 2.26.1. Scripts used to run the tests are available at
>>>>> https://github.com/groeck/linux-build-test/tree/master/rootfs/nios2.
>>>>> Qemu is from qemu mainline or qemu v2.8 with nios2 patches applied.
>>>>
>>>> Looks like this is somehow related to gcc/binutils. Using GCC 4.8.3 and
>>>> binutils 2.24.51 (both from from Sourcery CodeBench Lite 2014.05) I can
>>>> get a kernel booting on latest master branch. AFAICT, none of the
>>>> LZ4_decompress_* functions are called during boot.
>>>>
>
> It seems a bit strange that code which is not actually called causes problems like that.
>
> Please let me know if and how I may help you figure out what's happening, especially
> regarding the differences between the previous LZ4 and the current implementation.
>
>>>> However, using a self-built GCC 7.0 (20161127) and binutils 2.27 I can
>>>> reproduce the problem you see using the instructions Guenter provided in
>>>> the reply to Sven.
>>>>
>>>> I'll try to dig a bit deeper from here on. Any suggestions on what to
>>>> look out for wrt the differences between the gcc/binutils version are
>>>> welcome of course.
>>>
>>> This message doesn't give me enough context to know what is going on,
>>> especially without seeing the rest of the thread.  Generally speaking,
>>> Mentor recommends you use one of our stable releases instead of trying to
>>> roll your own from mainline sources.  As an upstream binutils and gcc
>>> maintainer I do try my best to look at bug reports for those components, but
>>> I need a reproducible standalone testcase and specific versions of the
>>> different components involved.
>>>
>> The problem is also seen with Sourcery CodeBench Lite 2016.11-32 (gcc 6.2.0,
>> binutils 2.26.51). I can provide additional details if needed, but we don't
>> have a well enough understanding of the problem to be able to provide a
>> reduced size test case. The test used to reproduce the problem is available
>> at https://github.com/groeck/linux-build-test/tree/master/rootfs/nios2,
>> run on the ToT linux kernel.

Just a suggestion:  can you try binutils trunk, too?  Alan Modra and I 
just tracked down and fixed a bug with the linker creating bad 
executables that the kernel's ELF loader couldn't properly map into 
memory.  IIUC it only affected programs that use dynamic libraries, but 
maybe there was more to it than that.  In any case it would be good to 
know if the problem has already been fixed before investigating further.

-Sandra

Re: nios2 crash/hang in mainline due to 'lib: update LZ4 compressor module'

[Tobias Klauser]

On 2017-03-01 at 23:50:03 +0100, Sandra Loosemore <sandra@codesourcery.com> wrote:
> On 03/01/2017 11:58 AM, Sven Schmidt wrote:
> >Hi Guenter, Tobias and Sandra,
> >
> >thanks for your effort here.
> >
> >On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 10:14:13AM -0800, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> >>On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 10:53:56AM -0700, Sandra Loosemore wrote:
> >>>On 02/28/2017 08:53 AM, Tobias Klauser wrote:
> >>>>(adding Sandra Loosemore to Cc due to possible relation to gcc/binutils
> >>>>for nios2)
> >>>>
> >>>>On 2017-02-26 at 22:03:38 +0100, Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> wrote:
> >>>>>Hi Sven,
> >>>>>
> >>>>>my qemu test for nios2 started failing with commit 4e1a33b105dd ("lib:
> >>>>>update LZ4 compressor module"). The test hangs early during boot before
> >>>>>any console output is seen. Reverting the offending patch as well as the
> >>>>>subsequent lz4 related patches fixes the problem. Disabling CONFIG_RD_LZ4
> >>>>>and with it other LZ4 options also fixes it (as does adding "return -EINVAL;"
> >>>>>at the top of the LZ4 decompression code). For reference, bisect log
> >>>>>is attached.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>I tried with buildroot toolchains using gcc 6.1.0 as well as 6.3.0
> >>>>>and binutils 2.26.1. Scripts used to run the tests are available at
> >>>>>https://github.com/groeck/linux-build-test/tree/master/rootfs/nios2.
> >>>>>Qemu is from qemu mainline or qemu v2.8 with nios2 patches applied.
> >>>>
> >>>>Looks like this is somehow related to gcc/binutils. Using GCC 4.8.3 and
> >>>>binutils 2.24.51 (both from from Sourcery CodeBench Lite 2014.05) I can
> >>>>get a kernel booting on latest master branch. AFAICT, none of the
> >>>>LZ4_decompress_* functions are called during boot.
> >>>>
> >
> >It seems a bit strange that code which is not actually called causes problems like that.
> >
> >Please let me know if and how I may help you figure out what's happening, especially
> >regarding the differences between the previous LZ4 and the current implementation.
> >
> >>>>However, using a self-built GCC 7.0 (20161127) and binutils 2.27 I can
> >>>>reproduce the problem you see using the instructions Guenter provided in
> >>>>the reply to Sven.
> >>>>
> >>>>I'll try to dig a bit deeper from here on. Any suggestions on what to
> >>>>look out for wrt the differences between the gcc/binutils version are
> >>>>welcome of course.
> >>>
> >>>This message doesn't give me enough context to know what is going on,
> >>>especially without seeing the rest of the thread.  Generally speaking,
> >>>Mentor recommends you use one of our stable releases instead of trying to
> >>>roll your own from mainline sources.  As an upstream binutils and gcc
> >>>maintainer I do try my best to look at bug reports for those components, but
> >>>I need a reproducible standalone testcase and specific versions of the
> >>>different components involved.
> >>>
> >>The problem is also seen with Sourcery CodeBench Lite 2016.11-32 (gcc 6.2.0,
> >>binutils 2.26.51). I can provide additional details if needed, but we don't
> >>have a well enough understanding of the problem to be able to provide a
> >>reduced size test case. The test used to reproduce the problem is available
> >>at https://github.com/groeck/linux-build-test/tree/master/rootfs/nios2,
> >>run on the ToT linux kernel.
> 
> Just a suggestion:  can you try binutils trunk, too?  Alan Modra and
> I just tracked down and fixed a bug with the linker creating bad
> executables that the kernel's ELF loader couldn't properly map into
> memory.  IIUC it only affected programs that use dynamic libraries,
> but maybe there was more to it than that.  In any case it would be
> good to know if the problem has already been fixed before
> investigating further.

Thanks for the suggestion.

Just tried it with a kernel compiled with binutils trunk as of today
(2.28.51.20170302) and latest gcc snapshot (7.0.1 20170226).
Unfortunately, the issue still persists.

Tobias

Re: nios2 crash/hang in mainline due to 'lib: update LZ4 compressor module'

[Guenter Roeck]

On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 04:53:31PM +0100, Tobias Klauser wrote:
> (adding Sandra Loosemore to Cc due to possible relation to gcc/binutils
> for nios2)
> 
> On 2017-02-26 at 22:03:38 +0100, Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> wrote:
> > Hi Sven,
> > 
> > my qemu test for nios2 started failing with commit 4e1a33b105dd ("lib:
> > update LZ4 compressor module"). The test hangs early during boot before
> > any console output is seen. Reverting the offending patch as well as the
> > subsequent lz4 related patches fixes the problem. Disabling CONFIG_RD_LZ4
> > and with it other LZ4 options also fixes it (as does adding "return -EINVAL;"
> > at the top of the LZ4 decompression code). For reference, bisect log
> > is attached.
> > 
> > I tried with buildroot toolchains using gcc 6.1.0 as well as 6.3.0
> > and binutils 2.26.1. Scripts used to run the tests are available at
> > https://github.com/groeck/linux-build-test/tree/master/rootfs/nios2.
> > Qemu is from qemu mainline or qemu v2.8 with nios2 patches applied.
> 
> Looks like this is somehow related to gcc/binutils. Using GCC 4.8.3 and
> binutils 2.24.51 (both from from Sourcery CodeBench Lite 2014.05) I can
> get a kernel booting on latest master branch. AFAICT, none of the
> LZ4_decompress_* functions are called during boot.
> 
> However, using a self-built GCC 7.0 (20161127) and binutils 2.27 I can
> reproduce the problem you see using the instructions Guenter provided in
> the reply to Sven.
> 
> I'll try to dig a bit deeper from here on. Any suggestions on what to
> look out for wrt the differences between the gcc/binutils version are
> welcome of course.
> 

I tried the following combinations of gcc and binutils:
	gcc 6.1.0; binutils 2.26.1
	gcc 6.3.0; binutils 2.25.1
	gcc 6.3.0; binutils 2.26.1
	gcc 6.3.0; binutils 2.27

I used buildroot 2017.02-rc3 to build the toolchains. All have the problem.

Another data point, confirming what you say above: I am relatively (99%)
sure that the code in question is not actually called. I added reference
counters to make sure that this is the case. Just the existence of the
LZ4 decompression code appears to be sufficient to cause the boot failure.
Weird.

I just hope this only affects nios2.

Guenter