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ppc64_defconfig zImage fails to boot in qemu #402
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I guess these days nobody is booting zImage in QEMU, we are using vmlinux |
I was trying to test a change to the wrapper. If it does not work then perhaps we should disable it for big endian? |
The zImage built for If I drop into SLOF and dump the ppc64le image, I see:
Which matches the zImage text:
In contrast when booting the big endian zImage, I see:
So when we jump to that it's all zeroes and we take a illegal instruction program check. I'm not sure whether that's a qemu or SLOF issue, cc @aik |
@aik appears to be working on a qemu fix here: https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/20220504065536.3534488-1-aik@ozlabs.ru/ His patch fixes the pseries qemu machine when running with x-vof=on. In the commit message he mentions what works and what doesn't:
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One thing we could try is making |
Notes: Tested with qemu 7.0 and Linux v5.18-rc5. |
btw QEMU has trace points (enable via
0x4400000 is where zImage was loaded. |
I tried this and it made the linker segfault:
The reason I went down this path was I assumed booting the wrapper in qemu would work, but it never has. That's annoying if you're testing changes in the wrapper, but it's not really important for any real machine. It might be just as useful to document the configurations that are expected to work, so we can point users at that. |
Kernel uses ARCH=powerpc for both 32-bit and 64-bit PowerPC, here adds a ppc64 variant for big endian 64-bit PowerPC, users can pass XARCH=ppc64 to test it. The powernv machine of qemu-system-ppc64 is used with powernv_be_defconfig. As the document [1] shows: PowerNV (as Non-Virtualized) is the “bare metal” platform using the OPAL firmware. It runs Linux on IBM and OpenPOWER systems and it can be used as an hypervisor OS, running KVM guests, or simply as a host OS. Notes, - differs from little endian 64-bit PowerPC, vmlinux is used instead of zImage, because big endian zImage [2] only boot on qemu with x-vof=on (added from qemu v7.0) and a fixup patch [3] for qemu v7.0.51: - since the VSX support may be disabled in kernel side, to avoid "illegal instruction" errors due to missing VSX kernel support, let's simply let compiler not generate vector/scalar (VSX) instructions via the '-mno-vsx' option. - as 'man gcc' shows, '-mmultiple' is used to generate code that uses the load multiple word instructions and the store multiple word instructions. Those instructions do not work when the processor is in little-endian mode (except PPC740/PPC750), so, we only enable it for big endian powerpc. - for big endian ppc64, as the help message from arch/powerpc/Kconfig shows, the V2 ABI is standard for 64-bit little-endian, but for big-endian it is less well tested by kernel and toolchain, so, use elfv1 as-is, no need to explicitly ask toolchain to use elfv2 here. [1]: https://qemu.readthedocs.io/en/latest/system/ppc/powernv.html [2]: linuxppc/issues#402 [3]: https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/20220504065536.3534488-1-aik@ozlabs.ru/ Suggested-by: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20230722121019.GD17311@1wt.eu/ Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20230719043353.GC5331@1wt.eu/ Reviewed-by: Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net> Signed-off-by: Zhangjin Wu <falcon@tinylab.org> Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
Kernel uses ARCH=powerpc for both 32-bit and 64-bit PowerPC, here adds a ppc64 variant for big endian 64-bit PowerPC, users can pass XARCH=ppc64 to test it. The powernv machine of qemu-system-ppc64 is used with powernv_be_defconfig. As the document [1] shows: PowerNV (as Non-Virtualized) is the “bare metal” platform using the OPAL firmware. It runs Linux on IBM and OpenPOWER systems and it can be used as an hypervisor OS, running KVM guests, or simply as a host OS. Notes, - differs from little endian 64-bit PowerPC, vmlinux is used instead of zImage, because big endian zImage [2] only boot on qemu with x-vof=on (added from qemu v7.0) and a fixup patch [3] for qemu v7.0.51: - since the VSX support may be disabled in kernel side, to avoid "illegal instruction" errors due to missing VSX kernel support, let's simply let compiler not generate vector/scalar (VSX) instructions via the '-mno-vsx' option. - as 'man gcc' shows, '-mmultiple' is used to generate code that uses the load multiple word instructions and the store multiple word instructions. Those instructions do not work when the processor is in little-endian mode (except PPC740/PPC750), so, we only enable it for big endian powerpc. - for big endian ppc64, as the help message from arch/powerpc/Kconfig shows, the V2 ABI is standard for 64-bit little-endian, but for big-endian it is less well tested by kernel and toolchain, so, use elfv1 as-is, no need to explicitly ask toolchain to use elfv2 here. [1]: https://qemu.readthedocs.io/en/latest/system/ppc/powernv.html [2]: linuxppc/issues#402 [3]: https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/20220504065536.3534488-1-aik@ozlabs.ru/ Suggested-by: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20230722121019.GD17311@1wt.eu/ Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20230719043353.GC5331@1wt.eu/ Reviewed-by: Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net> Signed-off-by: Zhangjin Wu <falcon@tinylab.org> Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
Kernel uses ARCH=powerpc for both 32-bit and 64-bit PowerPC, here adds a ppc64 variant for big endian 64-bit PowerPC, users can pass XARCH=ppc64 to test it. The powernv machine of qemu-system-ppc64 is used with powernv_be_defconfig. As the document [1] shows: PowerNV (as Non-Virtualized) is the “bare metal” platform using the OPAL firmware. It runs Linux on IBM and OpenPOWER systems and it can be used as an hypervisor OS, running KVM guests, or simply as a host OS. Notes, - differs from little endian 64-bit PowerPC, vmlinux is used instead of zImage, because big endian zImage [2] only boot on qemu with x-vof=on (added from qemu v7.0) and a fixup patch [3] for qemu v7.0.51: - since the VSX support may be disabled in kernel side, to avoid "illegal instruction" errors due to missing VSX kernel support, let's simply let compiler not generate vector/scalar (VSX) instructions via the '-mno-vsx' option. - as 'man gcc' shows, '-mmultiple' is used to generate code that uses the load multiple word instructions and the store multiple word instructions. Those instructions do not work when the processor is in little-endian mode (except PPC740/PPC750), so, we only enable it for big endian powerpc. - for big endian ppc64, as the help message from arch/powerpc/Kconfig shows, the V2 ABI is standard for 64-bit little-endian, but for big-endian it is less well tested by kernel and toolchain, so, use elfv1 as-is, no need to explicitly ask toolchain to use elfv2 here. [1]: https://qemu.readthedocs.io/en/latest/system/ppc/powernv.html [2]: linuxppc/issues#402 [3]: https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/20220504065536.3534488-1-aik@ozlabs.ru/ Suggested-by: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20230722121019.GD17311@1wt.eu/ Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20230719043353.GC5331@1wt.eu/ Reviewed-by: Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net> Signed-off-by: Zhangjin Wu <falcon@tinylab.org> Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
Kernel uses ARCH=powerpc for both 32-bit and 64-bit PowerPC, here adds a ppc64 variant for big endian 64-bit PowerPC, users can pass ARCH=ppc64 to test it. The powernv machine of qemu-system-ppc64 is used with powernv_be_defconfig. As the document [1] shows: PowerNV (as Non-Virtualized) is the “bare metal” platform using the OPAL firmware. It runs Linux on IBM and OpenPOWER systems and it can be used as an hypervisor OS, running KVM guests, or simply as a host OS. Notes, - differs from little endian 64-bit PowerPC, vmlinux is used instead of zImage, because big endian zImage [2] only boot on qemu with x-vof=on (added from qemu v7.0) and a fixup patch [3] for qemu v7.0.51: - since the VSX support may be disabled in kernel side, to avoid "illegal instruction" errors due to missing VSX kernel support, let's simply let compiler not generate vector/scalar (VSX) instructions via the '-mno-vsx' option. - as 'man gcc' shows, '-mmultiple' is used to generate code that uses the load multiple word instructions and the store multiple word instructions. Those instructions do not work when the processor is in little-endian mode (except PPC740/PPC750), so, we only enable it for big endian powerpc. [1]: https://qemu.readthedocs.io/en/latest/system/ppc/powernv.html [2]: linuxppc/issues#402 [3]: https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/20220504065536.3534488-1-aik@ozlabs.ru/ Suggested-by: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20230722121019.GD17311@1wt.eu/ Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20230719043353.GC5331@1wt.eu/ Reviewed-by: Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net> Signed-off-by: Zhangjin Wu <falcon@tinylab.org>
Kernel uses ARCH=powerpc for both 32-bit and 64-bit PowerPC, here adds a ppc64 variant for big endian 64-bit PowerPC, users can pass XARCH=ppc64 to test it. The powernv machine of qemu-system-ppc64 is used with powernv_be_defconfig. As the document [1] shows: PowerNV (as Non-Virtualized) is the “bare metal” platform using the OPAL firmware. It runs Linux on IBM and OpenPOWER systems and it can be used as an hypervisor OS, running KVM guests, or simply as a host OS. Notes, - differs from little endian 64-bit PowerPC, vmlinux is used instead of zImage, because big endian zImage [2] only boot on qemu with x-vof=on (added from qemu v7.0) and a fixup patch [3] for qemu v7.0.51: - since the VSX support may be disabled in kernel side, to avoid "illegal instruction" errors due to missing VSX kernel support, let's simply let compiler not generate vector/scalar (VSX) instructions via the '-mno-vsx' option. - as 'man gcc' shows, '-mmultiple' is used to generate code that uses the load multiple word instructions and the store multiple word instructions. Those instructions do not work when the processor is in little-endian mode (except PPC740/PPC750), so, we only enable it for big endian powerpc. - for big endian ppc64, as the help message from arch/powerpc/Kconfig shows, the V2 ABI is standard for 64-bit little-endian, but for big-endian it is less well tested by kernel and toolchain, so, use elfv1 as-is, no need to explicitly ask toolchain to use elfv2 here. [1]: https://qemu.readthedocs.io/en/latest/system/ppc/powernv.html [2]: linuxppc/issues#402 [3]: https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/20220504065536.3534488-1-aik@ozlabs.ru/ Suggested-by: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20230722121019.GD17311@1wt.eu/ Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20230719043353.GC5331@1wt.eu/ Reviewed-by: Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net> Signed-off-by: Zhangjin Wu <falcon@tinylab.org> Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu> Upstream-commit: faeb4e09fe77262f9a6b2f9f874eec0b6850721e
Kernel uses ARCH=powerpc for both 32-bit and 64-bit PowerPC, here adds a ppc64 variant for big endian 64-bit PowerPC, users can pass XARCH=ppc64 to test it. The powernv machine of qemu-system-ppc64 is used with powernv_be_defconfig. As the document [1] shows: PowerNV (as Non-Virtualized) is the “bare metal” platform using the OPAL firmware. It runs Linux on IBM and OpenPOWER systems and it can be used as an hypervisor OS, running KVM guests, or simply as a host OS. Notes, - differs from little endian 64-bit PowerPC, vmlinux is used instead of zImage, because big endian zImage [2] only boot on qemu with x-vof=on (added from qemu v7.0) and a fixup patch [3] for qemu v7.0.51: - since the VSX support may be disabled in kernel side, to avoid "illegal instruction" errors due to missing VSX kernel support, let's simply let compiler not generate vector/scalar (VSX) instructions via the '-mno-vsx' option. - as 'man gcc' shows, '-mmultiple' is used to generate code that uses the load multiple word instructions and the store multiple word instructions. Those instructions do not work when the processor is in little-endian mode (except PPC740/PPC750), so, we only enable it for big endian powerpc. - for big endian ppc64, as the help message from arch/powerpc/Kconfig shows, the V2 ABI is standard for 64-bit little-endian, but for big-endian it is less well tested by kernel and toolchain, so, use elfv1 as-is, no need to explicitly ask toolchain to use elfv2 here. [1]: https://qemu.readthedocs.io/en/latest/system/ppc/powernv.html [2]: linuxppc/issues#402 [3]: https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/20220504065536.3534488-1-aik@ozlabs.ru/ Suggested-by: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20230722121019.GD17311@1wt.eu/ Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20230719043353.GC5331@1wt.eu/ Reviewed-by: Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net> Signed-off-by: Zhangjin Wu <falcon@tinylab.org> Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu> Upstream-commit: faeb4e09fe77262f9a6b2f9f874eec0b6850721e
v5.18-rc0 ppc64_defconfig fails to boot in qemu.
built with REHL9:
Just in case, I checked with the powerpc64-linux-gnu-gcc to make sure it wasn't the le variant of the cross compiler causing an issue.
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