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authorBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>2014-01-13 09:49:17 +1100
committerBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>2014-01-13 09:49:17 +1100
commit10348f5976830e5d8f74e8abb04a9a057a5e8478 (patch)
treee1a0c5e5a9abe98f3799126c1b45333030024b33 /arch/powerpc/kernel
parentf991db1cf1bdca43675b5d2df0af991719727029 (diff)
powerpc: Check return value of instance-to-package OF call
On PA-Semi firmware, the instance-to-package callback doesn't seem to be implemented. We didn't check for error, however, thus subsequently passed the -1 value returned into stdout_node to thins like prom_getprop etc... Thus caused the firmware to load values around 0 (physical) internally as node structures. It somewhat "worked" as long as we had a NULL in the right place (address 8) at the beginning of the kernel, we didn't "see" the bug. But commit 5c0484e25ec03243d4c2f2d4416d4a13efc77f6a "powerpc: Endian safe trampoline" changed the kernel entry point causing that old bug to now cause a crash early during boot. This fixes booting on PA-Semi board by properly checking the return value from instance-to-package. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Tested-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net> ---
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/powerpc/kernel')
-rw-r--r--arch/powerpc/kernel/prom_init.c22
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom_init.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom_init.c
index cb64a6e1dc51..078145acf7fb 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom_init.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom_init.c
@@ -1986,19 +1986,23 @@ static void __init prom_init_stdout(void)
/* Get the full OF pathname of the stdout device */
memset(path, 0, 256);
call_prom("instance-to-path", 3, 1, prom.stdout, path, 255);
- stdout_node = call_prom("instance-to-package", 1, 1, prom.stdout);
- val = cpu_to_be32(stdout_node);
- prom_setprop(prom.chosen, "/chosen", "linux,stdout-package",
- &val, sizeof(val));
prom_printf("OF stdout device is: %s\n", of_stdout_device);
prom_setprop(prom.chosen, "/chosen", "linux,stdout-path",
path, strlen(path) + 1);
- /* If it's a display, note it */
- memset(type, 0, sizeof(type));
- prom_getprop(stdout_node, "device_type", type, sizeof(type));
- if (strcmp(type, "display") == 0)
- prom_setprop(stdout_node, path, "linux,boot-display", NULL, 0);
+ /* instance-to-package fails on PA-Semi */
+ stdout_node = call_prom("instance-to-package", 1, 1, prom.stdout);
+ if (stdout_node != PROM_ERROR) {
+ val = cpu_to_be32(stdout_node);
+ prom_setprop(prom.chosen, "/chosen", "linux,stdout-package",
+ &val, sizeof(val));
+
+ /* If it's a display, note it */
+ memset(type, 0, sizeof(type));
+ prom_getprop(stdout_node, "device_type", type, sizeof(type));
+ if (strcmp(type, "display") == 0)
+ prom_setprop(stdout_node, path, "linux,boot-display", NULL, 0);
+ }
}
static int __init prom_find_machine_type(void)