On Thu, 28 Oct 2021 23:30:43 +1000, Nicholas Piggin wrote:
> A e5500 machine running a 32-bit kernel sometimes hangs at boot,
> seemingly going into an infinite loop of instruction storage interrupts.
> The ESR SPR has a value of 0x800000 (store) when this happens, which is
> likely set by a previous store. An instruction TLB miss interrupt would
> then leave ESR unchanged, and if no PTE exists it calls directly to the
> instruction storage interrupt handler without changing ESR.
>
> [...]
Applied to powerpc/next.
[1/1] powerpc/32e: Ignore ESR in instruction storage interrupt handler
https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/81291383ffde08b23bce75e7d6b2575ce9d3475c
cheers
