Re: [Xenomai] OMAP L138

[Gilles Chanteperdrix <gilles.chanteperdrix@xenomai.org>]

On 04/15/2014 11:59 PM, Peter Howard wrote:
> On Tue, 2014-04-15 at 13:37 +0200, Gilles Chanteperdrix wrote:
>> On 04/15/2014 08:03 AM, Peter Howard wrote:
>>> On Fri, 2014-04-11 at 08:52 +1000, Peter Howard wrote:
>>>> On Fri, 2014-04-11 at 00:48 +0200, Gilles Chanteperdrix wrote:
>>>>> On 04/11/2014 12:34 AM, Peter Howard wrote:
>>>>>> On Fri, 2014-04-11 at 00:23 +0200, Gilles Chanteperdrix wrote:
>>>>>> (Stripping back conversation on this one - apologies if that's bad
>>>>>> etiquette for this list)
>>>>>>  
>>>>>>> Attachment is better. Also please post the changes you made for omapL138
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-davinci/Kconfig b/arch/arm/mach-davinci/Kconfig
>>>>>> index a075b3e..3d8bc59 100644
>>>>>> --- a/arch/arm/mach-davinci/Kconfig
>>>>>> +++ b/arch/arm/mach-davinci/Kconfig
>>>>>> @@ -41,6 +41,8 @@ config ARCH_DAVINCI_DA850
>>>>>>  	select ARCH_DAVINCI_DA8XX
>>>>>>  	select ARCH_HAS_CPUFREQ
>>>>>>  	select CP_INTC
>>>>>> +    select IPIPE_ARM_KUSER_TSC if IPIPE
>>>>>> +    select ARM_FCSE if IPIPE
>>>>>
>>>>> You may want to leave the choice of enabling or disabling FCSE to the user.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Understood; at the moment the variance on max latency is really bad if
>>>> you don't enable FCSE.  When I sort out the crashing issues I'll re-test
>>>> with it off.
>>>
>>> Well, FCSE turned out to be my problem.
>>>
>>> More specifically,  FCSE and ARM_FCSE_BEST_EFFORT.  Either a) disabling
>>> ARM_FCSE altogether, or b) selecting ARM_FCSE with ARM_FCSE_GUARENTEED
>>> gets rid of the crashes/panics with ipipe latency tracing enabled.
>>>
>>> So now things seem reasonably stable, I'll go through the full set of
>>> tests.  Though I still can't do 'xeno-test -l "dohell -l /opt/ltp"' as
>>> ltp takes out the system without any ipipe/xenomai bits.
>>>
>> Ok, FCSE best effort is currently being validated on 3.14, so it may
>> well be broken. After all, the raw/* branches are work in progress.
>>
> 
> Note: selecting ARM_FCSE_BEST_EFFORT produces the same result on the
> master branch too . . .
> 

Could you turn CONFIG_ARM_FCSE_MESSAGES on and show us the messages you
get (with the 3.14 kernel, not the master branch)?

-- 
                                                                Gilles.