Hi Finn, FTR, here is the diff of the dmesg between good and bad:
+initrd: 07f61166 - 08000000 This is wrong (note the 6 trailing zeros), as phys_to_virt() is not working correctly yet (module_fixup() is called from paging_init()). Zone ranges: DMA [mem 0x0000000007400000-0x0000007fffffffff] Normal empty Movable zone start for each node Early memory node ranges node 0: [mem 0x0000000007400000-0x0000000007ffffff] Initmem setup node 0 [mem 0x0000000007400000-0x0000000007ffffff] -initrd: 00b61166 - 00c00000 This is correct (note the 5 trailing zeros). -pcpu-alloc: s0 r0 d32768 u32768 alloc=1*32768 -pcpu-alloc: [0] 0 [...] +Unable to handle kernel access at virtual address (ptrval) +Oops: 00000000 +Modules linked in: +PC: [<002c11be>] memcmp+0x2c/0x5c +SR: 2700 SP: (ptrval) a2: 003bd560 +d0: 0035eb83 d1: 07fffff8 d2: 002c1192 d3: 000000e6 +d4: 000684e8 d5: 00447000 a0: 0000000c a1: 07fffff4 +Process swapper (pid: 0, task=(ptrval)) +Frame format=7 eff addr=003bbfbc ssw=0505 faddr=07fffff4 +wb 1 stat/addr/data: 0005 00447000 07401000 +wb 2 stat/addr/data: 0005 000000e6 000684e8 +wb 3 stat/addr/data: 0005 003bbfb4 002c1192 +push data: 07401000 002c7d82 07401000 074a2cf4 +Stack from 003bbfb4: +002c1192 000000e6 002c7d82 00428eda 07fffff4 0035eb7f 0000000c 00447000 +000000e6 000684e8 00447000 07401000 074bec08 07401000 074a2cf4 07fffff0 +00440406 00000000 00428322 +Call Trace: [<002c1192>] memcmp+0x0/0x5c +[<002c7d82>] _printk+0x0/0x18 +[<00428eda>] start_kernel+0x80/0x5b0 +[<000684e8>] pcpu_alloc+0x88/0x3b4 +[<00428322>] _sinittext+0x322/0x9b0 On Mon, Feb 27, 2023 at 7:30 AM Finn Thain <fth...@linux-m68k.org> wrote: > On Mon, 27 Feb 2023, Michael Schmitz wrote: > > I wonder whether Finn's memtest patch merely exposed another MM bug > > A kernel patch may be easier than a bootloader patch (even if this is a > bootloader bug) particularly if it affects multiple platforms. > > A partial revert of my patch (below) will probably avoid the issue, but > with the side effect that use of memtest will clobber the initrd. Which we can avoid, by moving the ramdisk handling inside paging_init(). > The initrd and memtest features aren't usually needed together. At the > time when I needed the memtest feature I did not have confidence in the > hardeare. An initrd wasn't very useful at that point. > > diff --git a/arch/m68k/kernel/setup_mm.c b/arch/m68k/kernel/setup_mm.c > index 3a2bb2e8fdad..92f1b9268dff 100644 > --- a/arch/m68k/kernel/setup_mm.c > +++ b/arch/m68k/kernel/setup_mm.c > @@ -326,6 +326,8 @@ void __init setup_arch(char **cmdline_p) > panic("No configuration setup"); > } > > + paging_init(); > + > #ifdef CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD > if (m68k_ramdisk.size) { > memblock_reserve(m68k_ramdisk.addr, m68k_ramdisk.size); Presumably something in memblock_reserve() relies on having called paging_init() before? I'll do some more debugging later today... > @@ -335,8 +337,6 @@ void __init setup_arch(char **cmdline_p) > } > #endif > > - paging_init(); > - > #ifdef CONFIG_NATFEAT > nf_init(); > #endif > -- Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- ge...@linux-m68k.org In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds