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microblaze handles TLB misses in software, and the handler builds the address of the L1 entry by ORing the index into the page directory base instead of adding it (hw_exception_handler.S): bsrli r5, r3, PGDIR_SHIFT - 2 andi r5, r5, PAGE_SIZE - 4 /* Assume pgdir aligned on 4K boundary, no need for "andi r4,r4,0xfffff003" */ or r4, r4, r5 lwi r4, r4, 0 /* Get L1 entry */ The index is masked to the low 12 bits, so the OR only works if those bits of the base are zero -- which is exactly the assumption the comment states and the reason the masking of the base can be skipped. swapper_pg_dir had no alignment directive of its own. It was aligned because it followed empty_zero_page in head.S, and that one carried the .align 12: .section .data .global empty_zero_page .align 12 empty_zero_page: .space PAGE_SIZE .global swapper_pg_dir swapper_pg_dir: .space PAGE_SIZE Commit6215d9f447("arch, mm: consolidate empty_zero_page") removed empty_zero_page from head.S, and with it the .align 12 that -- despite sitting next to empty_zero_page -- was what page aligned swapper_pg_dir. Since then swapper_pg_dir lands wherever .data happens to put it, its low bits are no longer zero, and every kernel TLB miss ORs the index into a base with a nonzero offset. The resulting L1 lookups read the wrong words, no valid translation is ever installed, and the kernel spins in exceptions long before it can print anything. On qemu-system-microblazeel (petalogix-s3adsp1800) the console stays completely silent at 100% CPU; there is no oops and no guest error reported by qemu, which makes this awkward to diagnose. Give swapper_pg_dir the alignment it requires, rather than relying on a neighbour to provide it. microblaze has no noMMU variant left in mainline -- CONFIG_MMU is def_bool y and mmu_defconfig is the only defconfig -- so this is not a corner case: every mainline microblaze kernel since v7.1-rc1 fails to boot, including the v7.1 release. v7.0: swapper_pg_dir = 0xc05fd000 (aligned) v7.1-rc1: swapper_pg_dir = 0xc0603140 (offset 320) v7.1-rc1 + this fix: swapper_pg_dir = 0xc0604000 (aligned) next-20260726: swapper_pg_dir = 0xc0615140 (offset 320) next-20260726 + this fix: swapper_pg_dir = 0xc0616000 (aligned) Verified on qemu-system-microblazeel (petalogix-s3adsp1800) with mmu_defconfig and microblazeel gcc 12.5.0: v7.1-rc1 and next-20260726 both print nothing at all without the fix, and both boot to userspace with it. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260727215823.1422701-1-ramin.moussavi@yacoub.de Fixes:6215d9f447("arch, mm: consolidate empty_zero_page") Signed-off-by: Ramin Moussavi <ramin.moussavi@yacoub.de> Cc: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu> Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>