sparc64: Fix register corruption in top-most kernel stack frame during boot.

Meelis Roos reported that kernels built with gcc-4.9 do not boot, we
eventually narrowed this down to only impacting machines using
UltraSPARC-III and derivitive cpus.

The crash happens right when the first user process is spawned:

[   54.451346] Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! exitcode=0x00000004
[   54.451346]
[   54.571516] CPU: 1 PID: 1 Comm: init Not tainted 3.16.0-rc2-00211-gd7933ab #96
[   54.666431] Call Trace:
[   54.698453]  [0000000000762f8c] panic+0xb0/0x224
[   54.759071]  [000000000045cf68] do_exit+0x948/0x960
[   54.823123]  [000000000042cbc0] fault_in_user_windows+0xe0/0x100
[   54.902036]  [0000000000404ad0] __handle_user_windows+0x0/0x10
[   54.978662] Press Stop-A (L1-A) to return to the boot prom
[   55.050713] ---[ end Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! exitcode=0x00000004

Further investigation showed that compiling only per_cpu_patch() with
an older compiler fixes the boot.

Detailed analysis showed that the function is not being miscompiled by
gcc-4.9, but it is using a different register allocation ordering.

With the gcc-4.9 compiled function, something during the code patching
causes some of the %i* input registers to get corrupted.  Perhaps
we have a TLB miss path into the firmware that is deep enough to
cause a register window spill and subsequent restore when we get
back from the TLB miss trap.

Let's plug this up by doing two things:

1) Stop using the firmware stack for client interface calls into
   the firmware.  Just use the kernel's stack.

2) As soon as we can, call into a new function "start_early_boot()"
   to put a one-register-window buffer between the firmware's
   deepest stack frame and the top-most initial kernel one.

Reported-by: Meelis Roos <mroos@linux.ee>
Tested-by: Meelis Roos <mroos@linux.ee>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

2 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/arch/sparc/include/asm/oplib_64.h b/arch/sparc/include/asm/oplib_64.h
index f34682430fcf..2e3a4add8591 100644
--- a/arch/sparc/include/asm/oplib_64.h
+++ b/arch/sparc/include/asm/oplib_64.h
@@ -62,7 +62,8 @@ struct linux_mem_p1275 {
 /* You must call prom_init() before using any of the library services,
  * preferably as early as possible.  Pass it the romvec pointer.
  */
-void prom_init(void *cif_handler, void *cif_stack);
+void prom_init(void *cif_handler);
+void prom_init_report(void);
 
 /* Boot argument acquisition, returns the boot command line string. */
 char *prom_getbootargs(void);
diff --git a/arch/sparc/include/asm/setup.h b/arch/sparc/include/asm/setup.h
index f5fffd84d0dd..29d64b1758ed 100644
--- a/arch/sparc/include/asm/setup.h
+++ b/arch/sparc/include/asm/setup.h
@@ -48,6 +48,8 @@ unsigned long safe_compute_effective_address(struct pt_regs *, unsigned int);
 #endif
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_SPARC64
+void __init start_early_boot(void);
+
 /* unaligned_64.c */
 int handle_ldf_stq(u32 insn, struct pt_regs *regs);
 void handle_ld_nf(u32 insn, struct pt_regs *regs);