Hi, I did a few more debugging and wanted to share few more information which
are below:
1) I think QEMU does support EL2, because, the following code is working fine.
mov \xreg1, #0x33ff
msr cptr_el2, \xreg1 /* Disable coprocessor traps to EL2 */
2) The machine is still in EL3, when its trying to write to SP_EL2. As SP_EL2
can be written from EL3 or EL2, I think there is no permission violation
happening due to this.
mrs \xreg, CurrentEL /* xreg is 0xc after this line*/
mov \xreg1, sp
msr sp_el2, \xreg1 /* Migrate SP */
Please correct me if I am wrong.
------- Original Message -------
Sender : Rajkumar Ramasamy<rajkuma...@samsung.com> Technical
Lead/SRI-Bangalore-IoTivity/Samsung Electronics
Date : Jul 21, 2016 09:41 (GMT+05:30)
Title : Booting armv8 Kernel on UBoot
Hi,
I am trying to boot ARMv8 Linux kernel using U-Boot. I have built the latest
mainline kernel and U-Boot for aarch64 using defconfig. I am testing this build
on QEMU V2.6.0. I have loaded the Image file at 0x80080000
"loaded file
/home/shingu/workspace/linux/linux_mainline_aarch64/arch/arm64/boot/Image from
80080000 to 80B175FF, 00A97600 bytes"
Just before transfering the control to the kernel, U-Boot is trying to switch
the exception level to EL2 from EL3, since I have "-machine secure=on" in QEMU
parameters.
As soon as the stack pointer is migrated, ( mov x0, sp; msr sp_el2, x0) there
is an exception occurring, [transferring control to
arch/arm/cpu/armv8/exceptions.S:102] which is aborting the boot process with
following message:
"Synchronous Abort" handler, esr 0x02000000
ELR: fef7caa4
LR: fef7d60c
x0 : 00000000fe6fa820 x1 : 0000000000000000
x2 : 00000000fef94a88 x3 : 0000000000000001
x4 : 00000000fe6fa4e0 x5 : 0000000000000020
x6 : ffffff80ffffffc8 x7 : 0000000000000000
x8 : 00000000fe6fa6e0 x9 : 0000000000000002
x10: 00000000fe6fa55b x11: 0000000000000002
x12: 0000000000000002 x13: 00000000ffffffff
x14: 0000000083006fff x15: 00000000fef7c8e4
x16: 00000000fef7cb68 x17: 0000000000000000
x18: 00000000fe6fae00 x19: 00000000fefb7b40
x20: 0000000000000000 x21: 0000000080080000
x22: 0000000000000003 x23: 00000000fe6fe058
x24: 0000000000000000 x25: 00000000fefb0918
x26: 0000000000000000 x27: 00000000fef7d6d8
x28: 00000000fe6fe080 x29: 00000000fef7d5ec
Resetting CPU ...
resetting ...
Can anyone please help me to understand what I am doing wrong?
The total process is in the following code: [
http://git.denx.de/?p=u-boot.git;a=blob;f=arch/arm/cpu/armv8/transition.S#l16,
http://git.denx.de/?p=u-boot.git;a=blob;f=arch/arm/include/asm/macro.h#138]
Have a pleasant day! :)
With Thanks and Regards,
Rajkumar R
Have a pleasant day! :)
With Thanks and Regards,
Rajkumar R
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