Hi folks, Just an FYI in case anyone else is seeing crashes very early in boot in linux-next with the above config options.
The problem is the combination of some new code called via printk(), check_pointer() which calls probe_kernel_read(). That then calls allow_user_access() (PPC_KUAP) and that uses mmu_has_feature() too early (before we've patched features). With the JUMP_LABEL debug enabled that causes us to call printk() & dump_stack() and we end up recursing and overflowing the stack. Because it happens so early you don't get any output, just an apparently dead system. The stack trace (which you don't see) is something like: ... dump_stack+0xdc probe_kernel_read+0x1a4 check_pointer+0x58 string+0x3c vsnprintf+0x1bc vscnprintf+0x20 printk_safe_log_store+0x7c printk+0x40 dump_stack_print_info+0xbc dump_stack+0x8 probe_kernel_read+0x1a4 probe_kernel_read+0x19c check_pointer+0x58 string+0x3c vsnprintf+0x1bc vscnprintf+0x20 vprintk_store+0x6c vprintk_emit+0xec vprintk_func+0xd4 printk+0x40 cpufeatures_process_feature+0xc8 scan_cpufeatures_subnodes+0x380 of_scan_flat_dt_subnodes+0xb4 dt_cpu_ftrs_scan_callback+0x158 of_scan_flat_dt+0xf0 dt_cpu_ftrs_scan+0x3c early_init_devtree+0x360 early_setup+0x9c The simple fix is to use early_mmu_has_feature() in allow_user_access(), but we'd rather not do that because it penalises all copy_to/from_users() for the life of the system with the cost of the runtime check vs the jump label. The irony is probe_kernel_read() shouldn't be allowing user access at all, because we're reading the kernel not userspace. For now if you're hitting it just turn off CONFIG_PPC_KUAP and/or CONFIG_JUMP_LABEL_FEATURE_CHECK_DEBUG. cheers
