[PATCH 1/4] arm: mvebu: limit OpenBlocks AX3-4 to 1 GB of RAM

Gregory CLEMENT
2013-01-06T21:36:58Z

On 01/04/2013 07:03 PM, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> Dear Andrew Lunn,
>
> On Fri, 04 Jan 2013 18:37:26 +0100, Andrew Lunn wrote:
>
>> It would be nice to have a sample size bigger than two.
>
> Indeed.
>
>> Anybody else have a OpenBlocks AX3-4 and can report if it works or not?
>
> At least Gr?gory has one.

Until now I didn't notice any problem on this board with the 3GB enable.

I made more tests since I received this email, I booted (cold and hot boot)
the board dozens of times, and indeed every 5 or 10 reboot the kernel hanged
during boot at line:
"UDP-Lite hash table entries: 512 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)"

After applying your patch, I didn't notice any hang after 20 boots. Do you
have a test pattern which make the kernel to hang each time to be sure that
it is the root of the problem?

>
>> Thomas, could you swap out the RAM module you have for a known good one?
>> Can you test the RAM module in some other board you know works?
>
> Unfortunately, I don't see off-hand which other board I have in which I
> could test this RAM module, nor if I have a compatible RAM module to
> test things with.
>
> Thomas
>

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