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From: pawel.moll@arm.com (Pawel Moll)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Commit 384a290283fde63ba8dc671fca5420111cdac19a seems to break 11MPCore boot
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2013 16:05:36 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1359561936.3094.19.camel@hornet> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.02.1301301050230.6300@xanadu.home>

On Wed, 2013-01-30 at 16:00 +0000, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> > Pawel suggested I try reverting 384a290283fde63ba8dc671fca5420111cdac19a -
> > "ARM: gic: use a private mapping for CPU target interfaces" that you've
> > authored. With this commit reverted the kernel boots.
> > 
> > I am not quite sure why the commit breaks 11MPCore but Pawel (cc'd) might be
> > able to shed light on that.
> 
> That would be appreciated as I don't have any good answer to provide.

Uh, I afraid that my light-generating capabilities may be slightly
overestimated, as it was just a logical but lucky guess, really.

> Typically, this patch highlighted problems with bad holding pen 
> implementations where secondary CPUs would enter the kernel all at the 
> same time. In that case the kernel was crashing even before displaying 
> "CPU2: Booted secondary processor".

I'll try to get the board and reproduce the problem, but I can't promise
any dates...

Pawe?

  reply	other threads:[~2013-01-30 16:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-01-30 15:23 Commit 384a290283fde63ba8dc671fca5420111cdac19a seems to break 11MPCore boot Punit Agrawal
2013-01-30 16:00 ` Nicolas Pitre
2013-01-30 16:05   ` Pawel Moll [this message]
2013-01-30 16:21   ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2013-01-30 16:45     ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2013-01-30 17:19       ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2013-01-30 17:30         ` Nicolas Pitre
2013-01-30 17:57           ` Will Deacon
2013-01-30 18:03           ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2013-01-30 18:16             ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2013-01-30 18:19               ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2013-01-30 20:30           ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2013-01-30 21:02             ` Nicolas Pitre
2013-01-30 16:04 ` Lorenzo Pieralisi
2013-01-30 16:40   ` Punit Agrawal
2013-01-30 16:56     ` Lorenzo Pieralisi

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