Hello, Linux version 3.14.0-rc4+ (current tip, no extra patches), CPU is Cavium Econa CNS3420, board is Gateworks Laguna GW2388-4 (masqueraded as CNS3420VB). Issue #1 ################################################### kernel BUG at mm/vmalloc.c:1132! PC is at vm_area_add_early+0x20/0x84 LR is at add_static_vm_early+0xc/0x60 The problem is cns3xxx_pcie_init() (device_initcall) calls the "early" iotable_init(). I'll attach the patch. Issue #2 ################################################### PCI hangs system completely while trying to access any PCI MMIO region (plain IO not tested). The guilty commit is 928bea964827d7824b548c1f8e06eccbbc4d0d7d: PCI: Delay enabling bridges until they're needed We currently enable PCI bridges after scanning a bus and assigning resources. This is often done in arch code. This patch changes this so we don't enable a bridge until necessary, i.e., until we enable a PCI device behind the bridge. We do this in the generic pci_enable_device() path, so this also removes the arch-specific code to enable bridges. Reverting changes in arch/arm/kernel/bios32.c, drivers/pci/bus.c and include/linux/pci.h (= essentially adding pci_enable_bridges(bus) in ARM's pci_common_init_dev()) makes it work again. Options? Issue #3 ################################################### NR_IRQS:16 nr_irqs:96 96 WARNING: at drivers/irqchip/irq-gic.c:952 gic_init_bases+0xe4/0x2b8() Cannot allocate irq_descs @ IRQ16, assuming pre-allocated Backtrace: gic_init_bases from cns3xxx_init_irq+0x24/0x34 cns3xxx_init_irq from init_IRQ+0x24/0x2c init_IRQ from start_kernel+0x1a8/0x338 start_kernel from 0x2000806c I'm having problems understanding how is machine_desc->nr_irqs supposed to work with CONFIG_ARM_GIC and CONFIG_SPARSE_IRQ set. machine_desc->nr_irqs is set to NR_IRQS_CNS3XXX = IRQ_TC11MP_GIC_START + 64 = 32 + 64 = 96. At start, machine_desc->nr_irqs are pre-allocated via start_kernel() -> early_irq_init(). Then, gic_init(0, 29, ...) -> gic_init_bases(0, 29, ...) tries this (and fails): /* * For primary GICs, skip over SGIs. * For secondary GICs, skip over PPIs, too. */ irq_start = (effectively) 16; irq_base = irq_alloc_descs(irq_start, 16, gic_irqs, numa_node_id()); if (IS_ERR_VALUE(irq_base)) { WARN(1, "Cannot allocate irq_descs @ IRQ%d, assuming pre-allocated\n", irq_start); Does this mean machine_desc->nr_irqs is to be kept at 16 (NR_IRQS_LEGACY) or less, so it doesn't conflict with gic_init()? Or perhaps gic_init() shouldn't warn about this? -- Krzysztof Halasa Research Institute for Automation and Measurements PIAP Al. Jerozolimskie 202, 02-486 Warsaw, Poland _______________________________________________ linux-arm-kernel mailing list linux-arm-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-arm-kernel