omap4-panda-es boot issues with v3.15-rc4

[tony@atomide.com (Tony Lindgren)]

* Kevin Hilman <khilman@linaro.org> [140509 16:46]:
> Roger Quadros <rogerq@ti.com> writes:
> 
> > Kevin,
> >
> > On 05/09/2014 01:15 AM, Kevin Hilman wrote:
> >> Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com> writes:
> >> 
> >> [...]
> >> 
> >>> ..but I think I found the cause for recent hangs on panda, just a wild
> >>> guess based on looking at the recent cpuidle patches after v3.14.
> >>>
> >>> Looks like reverting 0b89e9aa2856 (cpuidle: delay enabling interrupts
> >>> until all coupled CPUs leave idle) makes booting work reliably again
> >>> on panda.
> >>>
> >>> Can you guys confirm, so far no issues here after few boot tests,
> >>> but it might be too early to tell.
> >> 
> >> Reverting that makes things a bit more stable, but it still eventually
> >> fails in the same way.  For me it took 8 boots for it to eventually
> >> fail.
> >> 
> >> However, if I build with CONFIG_CPU_IDLE=n, it becomes much more stable
> >> (20+ boots in a row and still going.)
> >> 
> >
> > Can you please test with CPU_IDLE enabled but C3 disabled as in below patch?
> > It worked for me 10/10 boots.
> 
> Yup, it worked for me too for 10/10 boots in a row.

But what has caused this regression, does it work reliably with let's
say v3.13 or v3.12?

Regards,

Tony