From: Kevin Hilman <khilman-rdvid1DuHRBWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>
To: linux-mediatek-IAPFreCvJWM7uuMidbF8XUB+6BGkLq7r@public.gmane.org
Cc: 陳柏宏 <howard.chen-NuS5LvNUpcJWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>,
"Tyler Baker"
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"Koan-Sin Tan"
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"Yingjoe Chen"
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"Eddie Huang (黃智傑)"
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"Pi-Cheng Chen"
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linux-arm-kernel
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Subject: Re: MTK mt8173-evb: mainline unstable, and big-endian boot failures
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2016 17:16:45 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7hsi1ilczm.fsf@baylibre.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAOi56cVDbkAJEDWy3+DV63a=UuD7nqpUu8X7e-OjtWM-4dj_-w-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org> (Kevin Hilman's message of "Wed, 27 Jan 2016 16:55:25 -0800")
Kevin Hilman <khilman-rdvid1DuHRBWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org> writes:
[...]
> It seems to be pretty stable up through v4.4 but
> unreliable/unpredictable in v4.5-rc1 and lots of places in between.
> It's hard to bisect because it doesn't reliably fail, but when it does
> fail to finish booting, it's typically after it reaches a shell, and
> trying to run various simple shell commands fails to complete, like
> this example from next-20160125[2].
>
> To me this suggests possibly an issue with the idle driver where
> characters might be getting lost on the serial console, which causes
> the automated boot scripts to fail because the shell is still waiting
> for the command to be finished.
FWIW, I think I confirmed my suspicion that it's an idle driver issue
because adding 'nohlt' on the cmdline, which forces cpuidle_poll mode
(essentially disabling cpuidle) makes mainline boot quite reliably on my
mt8173-evb board now.
Kevin
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From: khilman@baylibre.com (Kevin Hilman)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: MTK mt8173-evb: mainline unstable, and big-endian boot failures
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2016 17:16:45 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7hsi1ilczm.fsf@baylibre.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAOi56cVDbkAJEDWy3+DV63a=UuD7nqpUu8X7e-OjtWM-4dj_-w@mail.gmail.com> (Kevin Hilman's message of "Wed, 27 Jan 2016 16:55:25 -0800")
Kevin Hilman <khilman@baylibre.com> writes:
[...]
> It seems to be pretty stable up through v4.4 but
> unreliable/unpredictable in v4.5-rc1 and lots of places in between.
> It's hard to bisect because it doesn't reliably fail, but when it does
> fail to finish booting, it's typically after it reaches a shell, and
> trying to run various simple shell commands fails to complete, like
> this example from next-20160125[2].
>
> To me this suggests possibly an issue with the idle driver where
> characters might be getting lost on the serial console, which causes
> the automated boot scripts to fail because the shell is still waiting
> for the command to be finished.
FWIW, I think I confirmed my suspicion that it's an idle driver issue
because adding 'nohlt' on the cmdline, which forces cpuidle_poll mode
(essentially disabling cpuidle) makes mainline boot quite reliably on my
mt8173-evb board now.
Kevin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-01-28 1:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-01-28 0:55 MTK mt8173-evb: mainline unstable, and big-endian boot failures Kevin Hilman
2016-01-28 0:55 ` Kevin Hilman
[not found] ` <CAOi56cVDbkAJEDWy3+DV63a=UuD7nqpUu8X7e-OjtWM-4dj_-w-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2016-01-28 1:16 ` Kevin Hilman [this message]
2016-01-28 1:16 ` Kevin Hilman
[not found] ` <CAF-23O3ps0Wt_UCmJbArpc5iJJryJKA0k_2qAyNb7op8O=UnAg@mail.gmail.com>
2016-01-28 6:56 ` Eddie Huang
2016-01-28 6:56 ` Eddie Huang
2016-01-30 0:09 ` Kevin Hilman
2016-01-30 0:09 ` Kevin Hilman
[not found] ` <7hy4b8gc7q.fsf-rdvid1DuHRBWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>
2016-02-01 6:49 ` Eddie Huang
2016-02-01 6:49 ` Eddie Huang
2016-02-02 1:17 ` Kevin Hilman
2016-02-02 1:17 ` Kevin Hilman
[not found] ` <7hh9hrgbbh.fsf-rdvid1DuHRBWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>
2016-02-02 2:17 ` Fan Chen
2016-02-02 2:17 ` Fan Chen
2016-02-02 18:46 ` Kevin Hilman
2016-02-02 18:46 ` Kevin Hilman
[not found] ` <7h37tbdk6y.fsf-rdvid1DuHRBWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>
2016-02-03 1:38 ` Fan Chen
2016-02-03 1:38 ` Fan Chen
2016-02-03 6:44 ` Kevin Hilman
2016-02-03 6:44 ` Kevin Hilman
[not found] ` <CAF-23O2y7qRB=ZoU8cn2gcX7rjFdXh+rdLXSjF1nnym79Mknug@mail.gmail.com>
[not found] ` <CAF-23O2y7qRB=ZoU8cn2gcX7rjFdXh+rdLXSjF1nnym79Mknug-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2016-01-28 9:37 ` Johannes Berg
2016-01-28 9:37 ` Johannes Berg
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