Hi Angelo,

On 22/08/17 10:35, Angelo Dureghello wrote:
> On 21/08/2017 09:15, Greg Ungerer wrote:
>> On 20/08/17 23:26, Angelo Dureghello wrote:
>>> On 20/08/2017 14:44, Greg Ungerer wrote:
>>>> On 18/08/17 01:02, Angelo Dureghello wrote:
>>>>> On 14/08/2017 06:16, Greg Ungerer wrote:
>>>>>> On 12/08/17 21:17, Angelo Dureghello wrote:
>>>>>>> On 10/08/2017 09:06, Greg Ungerer wrote:
>>>>>>>> On 10/08/17 01:32, Angelo Dureghello wrote:
>>>>>>>> [snip]
>>>>>>>>> sure, on this board  http://sysam.it/cff_stmark2.html
>>>>>>>>> there are 128MB of ddr2.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> External SDRAM is accessible, at least without any mmc support 
>>>>>>>>> enabled,
>>>>>>>>> from 0x40000000.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> I have following test config:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>      GNU nano 2.8.6 File: arch/m68k/configs/stmark2_defconfig
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> CONFIG_LOCALVERSION="stmark2-001"
>>>>>>>> [snip]
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> I tried still yesterday a bit, but seems there is no much support for
>>>>>>>>> earlyprintk / low level debug for this architecture.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> In case i can try with a gpio toggling routine, at least to find
>>>>>>>>> where kernel stops.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> The attached patch, is a quick and dirty early console output method.
>>>>>>>> It works for me on the m5475, should work for you "as is" on the 5441x 
>>>>>>>> too.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> It is kind of an early printk. Of course it still needs the early
>>>>>>>> kernel boot to have succeeded before you will get anything much coming 
>>>>>>>> out.
>>>>>>>> But it is worth trying.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Ok many thanks. Btw i used a __square(); function written in asm, so i 
>>>>>>> am
>>>>>>> sure i see the gpio toggling in very early stages.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I am wondering if the non-0 base RAM may be a problem. I have only run
>>>>>>>> the MMU enabled code on platforms with 0 based RAM so far. But lets 
>>>>>>>> see if
>>>>>>>> the early console trace attached gives us anything before digging into 
>>>>>>>> that.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> This MCU has sdram area physically mapped at 0x4000 0000 so U-Boot, to 
>>>>>>> be
>>>>>>> able to execute the kernel must load it to that location/area anyway.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> But i have seen that it is not a problem, after MMU is enabled in head.S
>>>>>>> the jump
>>>>>>>                   movel   #_vstart,%a0      /* jump to "virtual" space 
>>>>>>> */
>>>>>>>           jmp     %a0@
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> works fine. Since that range is not hitting anything that is maintained
>>>>>>> physical, it can be translated into virtual without any issue.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Yeah, it is not so much the initial start up that I think will
>>>>>> be the problem. More the setup of the MMU mapping tables later
>>>>>> in boot.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> After some hard debug, i see the execution stops at:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> asmlinkage __visible void __init start_kernel(void)
>>>>>>>      ...
>>>>>>>      setup_arch(&command_line);      setup_mm.c
>>>>>>>         ...
>>>>>>>         paging_init();               mm/mcfmmu.c
>>>>>>>            ...
>>>>>>>            empty_zero_page = (void *) alloc_bootmem_pages(PAGE_SIZE);
>>>>>>>            ^line 47 mcfmmu.c
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Inside alloc_bootmem_pages(), execution seems to end up finally to
>>>>>>> mm/bootmem.c and likely to alloc_bootmem_bdata().
>>>>>>> In case i can still proceed to find the exact place where execution 
>>>>>>> stops,
>>>>>>> but i suspect in the while(1), line 545.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> As a curious thing, i find in a different cf CPU code "m54xx.c"
>>>>>>> the following:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> void __init config_BSP(char *commandp, int size)
>>>>>>> {
>>>>>>> #ifdef CONFIG_MMU
>>>>>>>       cf_bootmem_alloc();
>>>>>>>       mmu_context_init();
>>>>>>> #endif
>>>>>>> Do also m5441x.c maybe need this calls ?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Yes, you will need this. So that code above is only getting run when
>>>>>> configured for a 547x CPU family. Attached is a rework of that code
>>>>>> so that it will be run for all ColdFire MMU varients. Can you try
>>>>>> that out?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Would be very nice to have MMU working. Strangely, i don't see any
>>>>>>> board_config with it enabled. Was it ever tested on some Coldfire ?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Oh, yeah, I run this on a real M5475 EVB board for every kernel
>>>>>> mainline release, with and without MMU enabled. See the
>>>>>> arch/m68k/configs/m5475evb_defconfig, it will default to having
>>>>>> the MMU enabled.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I have todays linux-4.13-rc5 running on it here now:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> # cat /proc/version
>>>>>> Linux version 4.13.0-rc5-00001-gb014090-dirty (gerg@goober) (gcc version 
>>>>>> 5.4.0 (GCC)) #1 Mon Aug 14 10:14:12 AEST 2017
>>>>>>
>>>>>> # cat /proc/cpuinfo
>>>>>> CPU:            ColdFire
>>>>>> MMU:            ColdFire
>>>>>> FPU:            ColdFire
>>>>>> Clocking:       264.1MHz
>>>>>> BogoMips:       264.19
>>>>>> Calibration:    1320960 loops
>>>>>> #
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Regards
>>>>>> Greg
>>>>>
>>>>> Ok, i applied your patch, and still the kernel is hanging silently,
>>>>> so i started up a new debug session again.
>>>>>
>>>>> What is actually happening (after your patch has been applied) is:
>>>>>
>>>>> setup_arch()                arch/m68k/kernel/setup_mm.c
>>>>>    paging_init()
>>>>> memmap_init()               mm/page_alloc.c
>>>>> memmap_init_zone()
>>>>>    __init_single_page()
>>>>>        set_page_links()       include/linux/mm.h
>>>>>           set_page_zone()
>>>>>             kernel hangs silently on this line
>>>>>             page->flags &= ~(ZONES_MASK << ZONES_PGSHIFT);
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>
>> Can you run your current code with the console debug code I sent
>> a little while back?
>>
>> I ask because I suspect it should give something based on your debug
>> above. I played around a little trying to fake out my configuration
>> to make it look like the RAM was non-zero based. I couldn't get a fail,
>> but I would like to add some more debug to see what is going on with
>> the page pointers from your debug.
>>
>> Can you apply the attached patch and get any extra debug?
>>
>>
>>>>> I am wondering how mmu works, so at the moment mmu is enabled,
>>>>> in head.S, i would expect that code compiled for 0x40001000 would
>>>>> not run, since jumps would be translated to some different physical
>>>>> addresses, but execution sill works.
>>>>> At the same, after enabling mmu i would expect .data vars to be
>>>>> invalid, since their address would be translated to a different
>>>>> location, while not, the init values of .data variables are still
>>>>> valid. In case, i am interested to understand this points.
>>>>
>>>> On the ColdFire the kernel relies on all RAM and IO peripheral
>>>> addresses) to "hit" the ACR registers - and essentially be passed
>>>> through as an identity physical = virtual mapping. If you look at
>>>> the operation of the memory address translation when virtual mode
>>>> is enabled (in the ColdFire MMU sections of the 5475 and 54411
>>>> reference manual) you will see that addresses are checked in order
>>>> to be for the MMUBAR, RAMBAR, ACR, then MMU.
>>>>
>>>> For example a kernel address when in supervisor mode will hit
>>>> ACR1 or ACR3 the way we set them up in arch/m68k/coldfire/head.S.
>>>> And that is why you see kernel code and data still being valid after
>>>> the MMU is enabled in virtual mode. No TLB entries required for this.
>>>>
>>>> Looking at your call sequence above I can see that the physical
>>>> RAM start address being non-zero is going to come into play. I'll
>>>> dig into this a little more tomorrow see if I can figure out what
>>>> is going on.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks for the kind clarifications.
>>>
>>> I'll look in this things too in next days, learning is always nice.
>>> Btw, about load/entry address, i have noticed a possible basic
>>> difference betweeen mcf5441x and mcf547x series:
>>>
>>> The second one (your cpu) is v4e and probably more recent i guess, and
>>> one major difference from datasheet seems to be that it is Harvard.
>>> So probably, for this reason, you can address ram from 0 there.
>>
>> IIRC the 5475 was the first ColdFire with MMU, it is pretty old. Pretty
>> sure the 54411 came later. Not sure what the thinking was on the different
>> default memory layout though.
>>
> 
> Finally, cleaning out my debug lines, i found i removed an important line.
> So i am back to original "second" error we was trying to understand.
> 
> 
> So current more clear status is:
> 
> U-Boot 2017.09-rc2-00151-g2d7cb5b426-dirty (Aug 22 2017 - 00:22:46 +0200)
> 
> CPU:   Freescale MCF54410 (Mask:9f Version:2)
>        CPU CLK 240 MHz BUS CLK 120 MHz FLB CLK 60 MHz
>        INP CLK 30 MHz VCO CLK 480 MHz
> SPI:   ready
> DRAM:  128 MiB
> SF: Detected is25lp128 with page size 256 Bytes, erase size 64 KiB, total 16 
> MiB
> In:    serial
> Out:   serial
> Err:   serial
> Hit any key to stop autoboot:  0
> SF: Detected is25lp128 with page size 256 Bytes, erase size 64 KiB, total 16 
> MiB
> device 0 offset 0x100000, size 0x1d9728
> SF: 1939240 bytes @ 0x100000 Read: OK
> ## Booting kernel from Legacy Image at 40001000 ...
>    Image Name:   mainline kernel
>    Created:      2017-08-22   0:07:25 UTC
>    Image Type:   M68K Linux Kernel Image (uncompressed)
>    Data Size:    1939176 Bytes = 1.8 MiB
>    Load Address: 40001000
>    Entry Point:  40001000
>    Verifying Checksum ... OK
>    Loading Kernel Image ... OK
> Linux version 4.12.0stmark2-001-11691-g571d81b2b55f-dirty (angelo@jerusalem) 
> (gcc version 4.9.0 (crosstools-sysam-2016.04.16)) #182 Tue Aug 22 02:07:24 
> CEST 2017
> ------------[ cut here ]------------
> WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 0 at mm/page_alloc.c:6219 free_area_init_node+0x2f4/0x2fa
> CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper Not tainted 
> 4.12.0stmark2-001-11691-g571d81b2b55f-dirty #182
> Stack from 4017deec:
> 
>         4017deec
>  4017b3dd
>  40007972
>  00000000
>  00000000
>  47d9f62c
>  00020000
>  00000000
> 
>         00000000
>  4017df9c
>  40007a14
>  4016dd8e
>  0000184b
>  4019caca
>  00000009
>  00000000
> 
>         00000000
>  4019caca
>  4016dd8e
>  0000184b
>  48000000
>  40204000
>  47d9f62c
>  40001000
> 
>         00000000
>  47d9ef1c
>  40001480
>  4013010c
>  4012cd16
>  4017dfa8
>  4019ecc0
>  00012000
> 
>         00002000
>  4019ccb4
>  00000000
>  4017df9c
>  00020000
>  00000000
>  4019a3f2
>  4017df9c
> 
>         00000001
>  401da8c0
>  401da774
>  4019ebc8
>  00004000
>  00000000
>  00000000
>  4017dfc8
> 
> Call Trace:
>  [<40007972>] __warn+0xa4/0xc0
>  [<40007a14>] warn_slowpath_null+0x1a/0x22
>  [<4019caca>] free_area_init_node+0x2f4/0x2fa
>  [<4019caca>] free_area_init_node+0x2f4/0x2fa
>  [<40001000>] kernel_pg_dir+0x0/0x1000
>  [<40001480>] kernel_pg_dir+0x480/0x1000
>  [<4013010c>] memset+0x0/0x80
>  [<4012cd16>] strlen+0x0/0x14
>  [<4019ecc0>] __alloc_bootmem+0x16/0x3c
>  [<4019ccb4>] free_area_init+0x20/0x26
>  [<4019a3f2>] paging_init+0xee/0xfa
>  [<4019ebc8>] free_bootmem_node+0x0/0x34
>  [<40199fbc>] setup_arch+0xcc/0x16e
>  [<40024eb2>] printk+0x0/0x18
>  [<4019ecaa>] __alloc_bootmem+0x0/0x3c
>  [<40198550>] start_kernel+0x68/0x3ae
>  [<40001000>] kernel_pg_dir+0x0/0x1000
>  [<400020f2>] _exit+0x0/0x6
> 
> ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
> On node 0 totalpages: 16384
> free_area_init_node: node 0, pgdat 401da8c0, node_mem_map a8c0401d
                                                            ^^^^^^^^
>   DMA zone: 72 pages used for memmap
>   DMA zone: 0 pages reserved
>   DMA zone: 16384 pages, LIFO batch:3
> /page_alloc.c(1171): page=a8c0401d pfn=131072
                            ^^^^^^^^
Ok, this is getting somewhere. Clearly that page pointer is not valid.

I'll have a dig around and see if I can figure out what might cause that.

Regards
Greg
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