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boot hang on meltdown backporting -- urgent

Message ID 30b47155-2dcd-45db-b47a-95bf6b8d4dbb@linaro.org (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
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Alex Shi March 1, 2018, 11:46 a.m. UTC 
Hi Magus & Geert,

When I do backport meltdown fix to LTS 4.9, a boot hang happens(RCU
stall) with defconfig+CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE=y on your board:
r8a7795-salvator-x
The bug at https://kernelci.org/boot/id/5a96f3dd59b5146590b3a4d5/

The backporting git tree is
https://git.linaro.org/kernel/linux-linaro-stable.git/commit/?id=791778ab06292219a9ed09d3bf025badb8f02b48

Due to recent kernelci issue, a possible fix can not be tested now:


Would you like to help me test above patch? which is included
in the latest branch
https://git.linaro.org/kernel/linux-linaro-stable.git  v4.9-metldown

If it still causes boot hang, could you like to do a bisect to the buggy
commit? This is the only issue on the way to merge this patchset to LTS.


Thanks a lot!
Alex
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diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S b/arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S
index 8d50b28..198f231 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S
@@ -906,6 +906,7 @@  __ni_sys_trace:
        tramp_map_kernel        x30
 #ifdef CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE
        adr     x30, tramp_vectors + PAGE_SIZE
+       isb
        ldr     x30, [x30]
 #else
        ldr     x30, =vectors