Re: Question about running Xen on NVIDIA Jetson-TK1

[Julien Grall <julien.grall@arm.com>]

On 15/05/16 20:35, Meng Xu wrote:
> Hi Julien and Ian,

Hello Meng,

>
> I'm trying to run Xen on NVIDIA Jetson TK1 board. (Right now, Xen does
> not support the Jetson board officially. But I'm thinking it may be
> very interesting and useful to see it happens, since it has GPU inside
> which is quite popular in automotive.)
>
> Now I encountered some problem to boot dom0 in Xen environment. I want
> to debug the issues and maybe fix the issues, but I'm not so sure how
> I should debug the issue more efficiently. I really appreciate it if
> you advise me a little bit about the method of how to fix the issue.
> :-)
>
> ---Below is the details----
>
> I noticed the Dushyant from IBM also tried to run Xen on the Jetson
> board. (http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/xen/devel/422519). I
> used the same Linux kernel (Jan Kiszka's development tree -
> http://git.kiszka.org/linux.git/, branch queues/assorted) and Ian's
> Xen repo. with the hack for Jetson board. I can see the dom0 kernel
> can boot to some extend and then "stall/spin" before the dom0 kernel
> fully boot up.
>
> In order to figure out the possible issue, I boot the exact same Linux
> kernel in native environment on one CPU and collected the boot log
> information in [1]. I also boot the same Linux kernel as dom0 in Xen
> environment and collected the boot log information in [2].
>
> In Xen environment, dom0 hangs after the following message
> [   10.541010] NET: Registered protocol family 10
> 6mip6: Mobile IPv6
> [   10.542510] mi
>
> In native environment, the kernel has the following log after initializing NET.
> [    2.934693] NET: Registered protocol family 10
> [    2.940611] mip6: Mobile IPv6
> [    2.943645] sit: IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver
> [    2.951303] NET: Registered protocol family 17
> [    2.955800] NET: Registered protocol family 15
> [    2.960257] can: controller area network core (rev 20120528 abi 9)
> [    2.966617] NET: Registered protocol family 29
> [    2.971098] can: raw protocol (rev 20120528)
> [    2.975384] can: broadcast manager protocol (rev 20120528 t)
> [    2.981088] can: netlink gateway (rev 20130117) max_hops=1
> [    2.986734] Bluetooth: RFCOMM socket layer initialized
> [    2.991979] Bluetooth: RFCOMM ver 1.11
> [    2.995757] Bluetooth: BNEP (Ethernet Emulation) ver 1.3
> [    3.001109] Bluetooth: BNEP socket layer initialized
> [    3.006089] Bluetooth: HIDP (Human Interface Emulation) ver 1.2
> [    3.012052] Bluetooth: HIDP socket layer initialized
> [    3.017894] Registering SWP/SWPB emulation handler
> [    3.029675] tegra-pcie 1003000.pcie-controller: 2x1, 1x1 configuration
> [    3.036586] +3.3V_SYS: supplied by +VDD_MUX
> [    3.040857] +3.3V_LP0: supplied by +3.3V_SYS
> [    3.045509] +1.35V_LP0(sd2): supplied by +5V_SYS
> [    3.050201] +1.05V_RUN_AVDD: supplied by +1.35V_LP0(sd2)
> [    3.057131] tegra-pcie 1003000.pcie-controller: probing port 0, using 2 lanes
> [    3.066479] tegra-pcie 1003000.pcie-controller: Slot present pin
> change, signature: 00000008
>
> I'm suspecting that my dom0 kernel hangs when it tries to initialize
> "can: controller area network core ". However, from Dushyant's post at
> http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/xen/devel/422519,  it seems
> Dushyant's dom0 kernel hangs when it tries to initialize pci_bus. (The
> linux config I used may be different form Dushyant's. That could be
> the reason.)
>
> Right now, the system just hangs and has no output indicating what the
> problem could be. Although there are a lot of error message before the
> system hangs, I'm not that sure if I should start with solving all of
> those error messages. Maybe some errors can be ignored?
>
> My questions are:
> 1) Do you have suggestion on how to see more information about the
> reason why the dom0 hangs?

Have you tried to dump the registers using Xen console (CTLR-x 3 times 
then 0) and see where it get stucks?

Regards,

-- 
Julien Grall

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