Re: [Xenomai] IMX kernel 3.0.35_4.1.0 + adeos-ipipe-3.0.43-mx6q-1.18-14 -> very slow boot

[Thierry Bultel <tbultel@free.fr>]

Le 14/11/2014 11:28, Gilles Chanteperdrix a écrit :
> On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 11:15:00AM +0100, tbultel@free.fr wrote:
>> Gilles, it has taken time (about 3 hours), but I finally got
>> a backtrace with IPIPE_DEBUG: (I have disabled
>> CONFIG_IPIPE_TRACE_VMALLOC)
>
> Normally CONFIG_IPIPE_TRACE_VMALLOC is required on ARM. kmalloc fails
> to allocate large enough areas, which causes the kernel to fail booting.
>
>>
>> Before the trace went to the serial console, I saw that there were no more timer irq
>> on 2 CPUs (my ssh session froze). Some 3 or 4 seconds later it came up.
>> Not clear to me why there are only 100 points, because I have CONFIG_IPIPE_TRACE_SHIFT=14
>
> You have to write the number of back_trace_points you want to
> /proc/ipipe/trace/back_trace_points
>
> Also your trace contains a lot of writing to the console, you should
> move the ipipe_trace_panic_freeze to before any console output.
>
> Also note that the UART being slow, a lot of trace points will take
> a lot of time to print out.
>
> You may want to enable the tracer verbose mode to have the timestamps.
>

FYI, the kernel without IPIPE but with the PREEMPT_RT patch freezes as 
well, when flooding with ping, and mostly when started after a poweroff.
I have not been able (yet) to freeze it after a reboot.
I will consider looking deeper in the bootloader.