Re: [PATCH v8 1/3] riscv: Introduce CONFIG_RELOCATABLE

[Palmer Dabbelt]

On Thu, 11 May 2023 11:18:23 PDT (-0700), schwab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> On Mai 09 2023, Alexandre Ghiti wrote:
>
> > On 5/9/23 21:07, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> > > That does not work with UEFI booting:
> > >
> > > Loading Linux 6.4.0-rc1-1.g668187d-default ...
> > > Loading initial ramdisk ...
> > > Unhandled exception: Instruction access fault
> > > EPC: ffffffff80016d56 RA: 000000008020334e TVAL: 0000007f80016d56
> > > EPC: ffffffff002d1d56 RA: 00000000004be34e reloc adjusted
> > > Unhandled exception: Load access fault
> > > EPC: 00000000fff462d4 RA: 00000000fff462d0 TVAL: ffffffff80016d56
> > > EPC: 00000000802012d4 RA: 00000000802012d0 reloc adjusted
> > >
> > > Code: c825 8e0d 05b3 40b4 d0ef 0636 7493 ffe4 (d783 0004)
> > > UEFI image [0x00000000fe65e000:0x00000000fe6e3fff] '/efi\boot\bootriscv64.efi'
> > > UEFI image [0x00000000daa82000:0x00000000dcc2afff]
> >
> > I need more details please, as I have a UEFI bootflow and it works great
> > (KASLR is based on a relocatable kernel and works fine in UEFI too).
>
> It also crashes without UEFI.  Disabling CONFIG_RELOCATABLE fixes that.
> This was tested on the HiFive Unmatched board.
> The kernel image I tested is available from
> <https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Kernel:/HEAD/RISCV/>.  The
> same kernel with CONFIG_RELOCATABLE disabled is available from
> <https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/Andreas_Schwab:/riscv:/kernel/standard/>.

Sorry I missed this earlier, there's been some other reports of boot 
failures on rc1 showing up but those were all a lot more vague.  Just 
setting CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y doesn't manifest a boot failure on QEMU on 
my end and I don't have an UNmatched floating around.

Alex says he's going to look into it (and IIRC he has my Unmatched...).