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Russell Senior 776eaba5b6 x86/CPU: Fix warm boot hang regression on AMD SC1100 SoC systems 
[ Upstream commit bebe35bb73 ]

I still have some Soekris net4826 in a Community Wireless Network I
volunteer with. These devices use an AMD SC1100 SoC. I am running
OpenWrt on them, which uses a patched kernel, that naturally has
evolved over time.  I haven't updated the ones in the field in a
number of years (circa 2017), but have one in a test bed, where I have
intermittently tried out test builds.

A few years ago, I noticed some trouble, particularly when "warm
booting", that is, doing a reboot without removing power, and noticed
the device was hanging after the kernel message:

  [    0.081615] Working around Cyrix MediaGX virtual DMA bugs.

If I removed power and then restarted, it would boot fine, continuing
through the message above, thusly:

  [    0.081615] Working around Cyrix MediaGX virtual DMA bugs.
  [    0.090076] Enable Memory-Write-back mode on Cyrix/NSC processor.
  [    0.100000] Enable Memory access reorder on Cyrix/NSC processor.
  [    0.100070] Last level iTLB entries: 4KB 0, 2MB 0, 4MB 0
  [    0.110058] Last level dTLB entries: 4KB 0, 2MB 0, 4MB 0, 1GB 0
  [    0.120037] CPU: NSC Geode(TM) Integrated Processor by National Semi (family: 0x5, model: 0x9, stepping: 0x1)
  [...]

In order to continue using modern tools, like ssh, to interact with
the software on these old devices, I need modern builds of the OpenWrt
firmware on the devices. I confirmed that the warm boot hang was still
an issue in modern OpenWrt builds (currently using a patched linux
v6.6.65).

Last night, I decided it was time to get to the bottom of the warm
boot hang, and began bisecting. From preserved builds, I narrowed down
the bisection window from late February to late May 2019. During this
period, the OpenWrt builds were using 4.14.x. I was able to build
using period-correct Ubuntu 18.04.6. After a number of bisection
iterations, I identified a kernel bump from 4.14.112 to 4.14.113 as
the commit that introduced the warm boot hang.

  07aaa7e3d6

Looking at the upstream changes in the stable kernel between 4.14.112
and 4.14.113 (tig v4.14.112..v4.14.113), I spotted a likely suspect:

  https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/commit/?id=20afb90f730982882e65b01fb8bdfe83914339c5

So, I tried reverting just that kernel change on top of the breaking
OpenWrt commit, and my warm boot hang went away.

Presumably, the warm boot hang is due to some register not getting
cleared in the same way that a loss of power does. That is
approximately as much as I understand about the problem.

More poking/prodding and coaching from Jonas Gorski, it looks
like this test patch fixes the problem on my board: Tested against
v6.6.67 and v4.14.113.

Fixes: 18fb053f9b ("x86/cpu/cyrix: Use correct macros for Cyrix calls on Geode processors")
Debugged-by: Jonas Gorski <jonas.gorski@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell Senior <russell@personaltelco.net>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/CAHP3WfOgs3Ms4Z+L9i0-iBOE21sdMk5erAiJurPjnrL9LSsgRA@mail.gmail.com
Cc: Matthew Whitehead <tedheadster@gmail.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
History 2025-03-07 16:56:47 +01:00
arch x86/CPU: Fix warm boot hang regression on AMD SC1100 SoC systems 2025-03-07 16:56:47 +01:00
block block, bfq: fix bfqq uaf in bfq_limit_depth() 2025-03-07 16:56:41 +01:00
certs certs: Fix build error when PKCS#11 URI contains semicolon 2023-02-09 11:28:11 +01:00
crypto crypto: api - Add crypto_clone_tfm 2024-12-14 19:53:51 +01:00
Documentation mm: Don't pin ZERO_PAGE in pin_user_pages() 2025-03-07 16:56:47 +01:00
drivers net/mlx5: IRQ, Fix null string in debug print 2025-03-07 16:56:46 +01:00
fs afs: Fix the server_list to unuse a displaced server rather than putting it 2025-03-07 16:56:43 +01:00
include mm: Don't pin ZERO_PAGE in pin_user_pages() 2025-03-07 16:56:47 +01:00
init initramfs: avoid filename buffer overrun 2024-12-14 19:53:14 +01:00
io_uring io_uring/net: save msg_control for compat 2025-03-07 16:56:47 +01:00
ipc ipc: fix memleak if msg_init_ns failed in create_ipc_ns 2024-12-14 19:54:06 +01:00
kernel uprobes: Reject the shared zeropage in uprobe_write_opcode() 2025-03-07 16:56:47 +01:00
lib maple_tree: simplify split calculation 2025-02-21 13:49:55 +01:00
LICENSES LICENSES/LGPL-2.1: Add LGPL-2.1-or-later as valid identifiers 2021-12-16 14:33:10 +01:00
mm mm: Don't pin ZERO_PAGE in pin_user_pages() 2025-03-07 16:56:47 +01:00
net net: ipv6: fix dst ref loop on input in rpl lwt 2025-03-07 16:56:46 +01:00
rust rust: macros: provide correct provenance when constructing THIS_MODULE 2024-10-17 15:22:24 +02:00
samples samples/landlock: Fix possible NULL dereference in parse_path() 2025-02-21 13:49:03 +01:00
scripts kbuild: Move -Wenum-enum-conversion to W=2 2025-02-21 13:49:46 +01:00
security tomoyo: don't emit warning in tomoyo_write_control() 2025-02-21 13:49:31 +01:00
sound ASoC: es8328: fix route from DAC to output 2025-03-07 16:56:45 +01:00
tools selftests: rtnetlink: update netdevsim ipsec output format 2025-02-21 13:50:11 +01:00
usr usr/gen_init_cpio.c: remove unnecessary -1 values from int file 2022-10-03 14:21:44 -07:00
virt KVM: Fix a data race on last_boosted_vcpu in kvm_vcpu_on_spin() 2024-06-27 13:46:21 +02:00
.clang-format inet: ping: use hlist_nulls rcu iterator during lookup 2022-12-01 12:42:46 +01:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore get_maintainer: add Alan to .get_maintainer.ignore 2022-08-20 15:17:44 -07:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: use 'dts' diff driver for dts files 2019-12-04 19:44:11 -08:00
.gitignore Remove *.orig pattern from .gitignore 2024-10-17 15:21:15 +02:00
.mailmap 9 hotfixes. 6 for MM, 3 for other areas. Four of these patches address 2022-12-10 17:10:52 -08:00
.rustfmt.toml rust: add .rustfmt.toml 2022-09-28 09:02:20 +02:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS: Remove Michal Marek from Kbuild maintainers 2022-11-16 14:53:00 +09:00
Kbuild Kbuild updates for v6.1 2022-10-10 12:00:45 -07:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS MAINTAINERS: add leah to 6.1 MAINTAINERS file 2024-05-17 11:56:16 +02:00
Makefile Linux 6.1.129 2025-02-21 13:50:12 +01:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

README 

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.