Re: [Xenomai-help] Xenomai problems on pxa

["Bernhard Michael" <michael.bernhard@domain.hid>]

Gilles Chanteperdrix wrote:
> It looks like we have two issues:
> - one issue is that compiling with the EABI toolchain generates a lot
> of unaligned access, which causes a crash, when the fault handler gets
> invoked at the wrong time. To solve this issue, I will check if we can
> allow the unaligned access to be handled in primary mode under some
> condition (it will need at least, a valid linux stack)
> - another issue is that there is something wrong with Linux timer
> interrupt handling, which causes the soft lockups and weird timer
> behaviour.
> 
> Could you try the following:
> in the version compiled without EABI, in Linux file
> arch/arm/mach-pxa/time.c, function pxa_timer_interrupt, try removing
> the do { } while loop in :
> 
>         do {
>                 timer_tick();
> #ifndef CONFIG_IPIPE
>                 OSSR = OSSR_M0;  /* Clear match on timer 0 */
> #else /* CONFIG_IPIPE */
>                 last_jiffy_time += LATCH;
>                 if (__ipipe_mach_timerstolen)
>                         next_match = last_jiffy_time + LATCH;
>                 else
> #endif /* CONFIG_IPIPE */
>                 next_match = (OSMR0 += LATCH);
>         } while( (signed long)(next_match - OSCR) <= 8 );
> 

Gilles, I removed 'do' and 'while' as you suggested but the kernel does
not boot. The last boot messages before the kernel stalls are the following:

...
PID hash table entries: 256 (order: 8, 1024 bytes)
I-pipe 1.8-03: pipeline enabled.
start_kernel(): bug: interrupts were enabled early
Console: colour dummy device 80x30
Dentry cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
Memory: 64MB = 64MB total
Memory: 61568KB available (2928K code, 279K data, 104K init)

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Michael