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Date:      Fri, 25 Nov 2016 13:37:37 -0600
From:      Justin Hibbits <chmeeedalf@gmail.com>
To:        Mark Millard <markmi@dsl-only.net>
Cc:        Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD PowerPC ML <freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: I think I found why the iMac G3 that I have access to has not booted FreeBSD vintages: 2015-Mar+ . . . [Yep: booted!]
Message-ID:  <CAHSQbTBLc_eZ7sQgwpVb7f99bL6uTaTUFp2QRGoYj3B-d3HxPA@mail.gmail.com>
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Hi Mark,

Nice legwork on this. I just committed r309167 which should fix this bug.
Can you update and test?

- Justin

On Nov 21, 2016 05:22, "Mark Millard" <markmi@dsl-only.net> wrote:

> [Top post of operational confirmation.]
>
> I'm now logged in on the iMac G3 under a variant of head -r308874 .
> (Finally after about 1.8 years.)
>
> It is currently running a variation of head -r308874 with a debug
> kernel that has the two isync's added around moea_activate's
> mtsrin (and KTR turned back off).
>
> With no such isync's (or other such "context-synchronizations")
> the iMac G3 does not boot. (The below likely does not preserve
> tabs.)
>
> # svnlite diff /usr/src/sys/powerpc/aim/mmu_oea.c
> Index: /usr/src/sys/powerpc/aim/mmu_oea.c
> ===================================================================
> --- /usr/src/sys/powerpc/aim/mmu_oea.c  (revision 308874)
> +++ /usr/src/sys/powerpc/aim/mmu_oea.c  (working copy)
> @@ -991,7 +991,9 @@
>         CPU_SET(PCPU_GET(cpuid), &pm->pm_active);
>         PCPU_SET(curpmap, pmr);
>
> +       isync();
>         mtsrin(USER_SR << ADDR_SR_SHFT, td->td_pcb->pcb_cpu.aim.usr_vsid);
> +       isync();
>  }
>
>
> stable/11 should also get such a change, not just head.
>
> It would be nice if releng/11 eventually picked up such a
> change so that some release/11.0.? booted on iMac G3's as well.
> Otherwise it waits for release/11.1.0 .
>
> I wonder if there might be intermittent problems for
> TARGET_ARCH=powerpc systems that are (usually) booting
> for release/11.0.x currently.
>
> (I only have access to one iMac G3 to test and no access
> to any other kinds of G3's. I have access to a few types
> of PowerMac G4's and 2 types of PowerMac G5's. All the
> PowerPc family machines that I have access to are Apple
> machines.)
>
>
>
>
> Note:
>
> stable/10 still has the old powerpc/swtch32.S code and so is
> fine for this issue.
>
> Part of the context from back in early 2015 was that I
> switched from 10 to 11 as part of getting ready to investigate
> projects/clang380-import for powerpc and powerpc64 use. I
> did not revert back to 10.x despite the iMac G3 not booting.
>
> ===
> Mark Millard
> markmi at dsl-only.net
>
> On 2016-Nov-21, at 2:10 AM, Mark Millard <markmi at dsl-only.net> wrote:
>
> > First I report my understanding of the PowerPc background information
> > involved:
> > (then later the code that has that background involved)
> >
> > For reference:
> >
> >   82 mtsrin(vm_offset_t va, register_t value)
> >   83 {
> >   84
> >   85         __asm __volatile ("mtsrin %0,%1" :: "r"(value), "r"(va));
> >   86 }
> >
> > PowerPC requirements:
> >
> > mtsr(instruction access):   no synchronization required before;
> >                            context synchronization required after
> > mtsrin(instruction access): no synchronization required before;
> >                            context synchronization required after
> >
> > So the same criteria. isync, sc, or rfi would be
> > "context-synchronizing".
> >
> > mtsr(data access):   context synchronization required before;
> >                     context synchronization required after
> > mtsrin(data access): context synchronization required before;
> >                     context synchronization required after
> >
> > So even more required for this context: before and after.
> > Again isync would be "context-synchronizing".
> >
> >
> > Now the code that has that background involved. . .
> >
> > aim/mmu_oea.c's moea_activate does mtsrin without any explicit
> > "context-synchronizing" before or after it --and it replaced
> > code that did have the "context-synchronizing".
> >
> > The modern (2015-Mar-4+) code:
> >
> > /*
> > * Activate a user pmap.  The pmap must be activated before it's address
> > * space can be accessed in any way.
> > */
> > void
> > moea_activate(mmu_t mmu, struct thread *td)
> > {
> >       pmap_t  pm, pmr;
> >
> >       /*
> >        * Load all the data we need up front to encourage the compiler to
> >        * not issue any loads while we have interrupts disabled below.
> >        */
> >       pm = &td->td_proc->p_vmspace->vm_pmap;
> >       pmr = pm->pmap_phys;
> >
> >       CPU_SET(PCPU_GET(cpuid), &pm->pm_active);
> >       PCPU_SET(curpmap, pmr);
> >
> >       mtsrin(USER_SR << ADDR_SR_SHFT, td->td_pcb->pcb_cpu.aim.usr_vsid);
> > }
> >
> > I expect that two isync's are missing.
> >
> > At the assembler level of detail the modern code in my example
> > build is:
> >
> > 0080e3fc <moea_activate> stwu    r1,-32(r1)
> > 0080e400 <moea_activate+0x4> stw     r31,24(r1)
> > 0080e404 <moea_activate+0x8> mr      r31,r1
> > 0080e408 <moea_activate+0xc> lwz     r9,4(r4)
> > 0080e40c <moea_activate+0x10> lwz     r10,308(r9)
> > 0080e410 <moea_activate+0x14> lwz     r8,312(r10)
> > 0080e414 <moea_activate+0x18> mfsprg  r9,0
> > 0080e418 <moea_activate+0x1c> lwz     r9,36(r9)
> > 0080e41c <moea_activate+0x20> rlwinm  r9,r9,27,5,31
> > 0080e420 <moea_activate+0x24> mfsprg  r11,0
> > 0080e424 <moea_activate+0x28> rlwinm  r9,r9,2,0,29
> > 0080e428 <moea_activate+0x2c> add     r9,r9,r10
> > 0080e42c <moea_activate+0x30> addi    r9,r9,256
> > 0080e430 <moea_activate+0x34> lwz     r11,36(r11)
> > 0080e434 <moea_activate+0x38> clrlwi  r11,r11,27
> > 0080e438 <moea_activate+0x3c> li      r0,1
> > 0080e43c <moea_activate+0x40> slw     r0,r0,r11
> > 0080e440 <moea_activate+0x44> lwz     r11,24(r9)
> > 0080e444 <moea_activate+0x48> or      r0,r0,r11
> > 0080e448 <moea_activate+0x4c> stw     r0,24(r9)
> > 0080e44c <moea_activate+0x50> mfsprg  r9,0
> > 0080e450 <moea_activate+0x54> stw     r8,304(r9)
> > 0080e454 <moea_activate+0x58> lwz     r9,644(r4)
> > 0080e458 <moea_activate+0x5c> lwz     r9,1176(r9)
> > 0080e45c <moea_activate+0x60> lis     r0,-16384
> > 0080e460 <moea_activate+0x64> mtsrin  r9,r0   <<<<<<<<=======
> "Context-synchronization(s)"?
> > 0080e464 <moea_activate+0x68> lwz     r11,0(r1)
> > 0080e468 <moea_activate+0x6c> lwz     r31,-8(r11)
> > 0080e46c <moea_activate+0x70> mr      r1,r11
> > 0080e470 <moea_activate+0x74> blr
> >
> >
> > But the old, historical code that this replaced did have
> > explicit "context-synchornizing" in powerpc/swtch32.S for
> > AIM ( -r279594 replaced the below on 2015-Mar-4 ):
> >
> > -#ifdef AIM
> > -     lwz     %r5,PCB_AIM_USR_VSID(%r3) /* Load the USER_SR segment reg
> */
> > -     isync
> > -     mtsr    USER_SR,%r5
> > -     isync
> > -#endif
> >
> > (It was part of setting the user pmap during thread switching.)
> >
> > This replacement happened shortly before I discovered that
> > the iMac G3 could no longer boot. It stops in pmap_activate
> > in the lwz r11,0(r1) just after moea_activate returns from
> > its bctrl-based call (modern code again below):
> >
> > . . .
> > 00847954 <pmap_activate+0x94> beq-    cr7,00847960 <pmap_activate+0xa0>
> > 00847958 <pmap_activate+0x98> lwz     r3,1024(r11)
> > 0084795c <pmap_activate+0x9c> bl      004fdfac <kobj_lookup_method>
> > 00847960 <pmap_activate+0xa0> lwz     r3,4(r3)
> > 00847964 <pmap_activate+0xa4> mtctr   r3
> > 00847968 <pmap_activate+0xa8> mr      r3,r29
> > 0084796c <pmap_activate+0xac> mr      r4,r28
> > 00847970 <pmap_activate+0xb0> bctrl <<<<<<<<<<========= Calls
> moea_activate.
> > 00847974 <pmap_activate+0xb4> lwz     r11,0(r1)  <<<<<<<===== This fails.
> >
> > I end up at the db> prompt (too early for interactive input).
> > (I have ddb automatically execute a compiled-in script.)
> >
> > I've confirmed with show registers that ctl has the address of
> moea_activate
> > (0x80e3fc in my example build of head -r308874) and srr0 has
> pmap_activate+0xb4's
> > value (matching lr). srr1 has the value 0x1032. dar has the value
> 0xe43f6a50
> > (matching r1 and r31). dsisr has the value 0x40000000.
> >
> > I also have confirmed with verbose KTR reporting that:
> >
> > cpu0 mi_switch: old thread 100022 (td_sched 0x2x0e6a8, pid 12, irq0:
> pcm0)
> >
> > happens just before it stops at pmap_activate+0xb4, at least
> > as far as visible messages go.
> >
> > Again, I expect that two isync's are missing in moea_activate:
> > one before the mtsrin and one after it, matching the old mtsr
> > handling from before the change.
> >
> > ===
> > Mark Millard
> > markmi at dsl-only.net
>
>
>



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