[PATCH] ARM: dts: meson8b: add reserved memory zone to fix silent freezes

[PATCH] ARM: dts: meson8b: add reserved memory zone to fix silent freezes

[Linus Lüssing]

So far, the stress-ng tool for instance quickly resulted in a silent
freeze of the system with no prior notice on a serial console when
running its filesystem or memory stressor classes.

Even with a panic-on-OOM and reboot-on-panic (vm.panic_on_oom=1,
kernel.panic=10) configured, the system would neither reboot nor
would the OOM killer get any chance to otherwise do its job.

The Amlogic reference source code uses a 2MB PHYS_OFFSET. With these 2MB
reserved via DT, stress-ng was able to run on an Odroid C1+ just fine for
several hours, the OOM killer was able to kill processes again and if
configured would successfully trigger a reboot of the system.

Fixes: 4a69fcd3a108 ("ARM: meson: Add DTS for Odroid-C1 and Tronfy MXQ boards")
Signed-off-by: Linus Lüssing <linus.luessing-djzkFPsfvsizQB+pC5nmwQ@public.gmane.org>

---
The following stress-ng command worked fine now:
$ stress-ng -v --sequential 0 -t 120s --exclude sysfs,opcode --metrics
(5 hours runtime, tested on an Odroid C1+ with an 4.14-rc1 kernel + SMP
+ USB DTS patches)
---
 arch/arm/boot/dts/meson8b.dtsi | 12 ++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/arm/boot/dts/meson8b.dtsi b/arch/arm/boot/dts/meson8b.dtsi
index bc278da..d75a5b5 100644
--- a/arch/arm/boot/dts/meson8b.dtsi
+++ b/arch/arm/boot/dts/meson8b.dtsi
@@ -83,6 +83,18 @@
 		};
 	};
 
+	reserved-memory {
+		#address-cells = <1>;
+		#size-cells = <1>;
+		ranges;
+
+		/* 2 MiB reserved for Hardware ROM Firmware? */
+		hwrom@0 {
+			reg = <0x0 0x200000>;
+			no-map;
+		};
+	};
+
 	scu@c4300000 {
 		compatible = "arm,cortex-a5-scu";
 		reg = <0xc4300000 0x100>;
-- 
2.1.4

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Re: [PATCH] ARM: dts: meson8b: add reserved memory zone to fix silent freezes

[Martin Blumenstingl]

On Mon, Oct 2, 2017 at 5:59 PM, Linus Lüssing <linus.luessing-djzkFPsfvsg@public.gmane.orge> wrote:
> So far, the stress-ng tool for instance quickly resulted in a silent
> freeze of the system with no prior notice on a serial console when
> running its filesystem or memory stressor classes.
>
> Even with a panic-on-OOM and reboot-on-panic (vm.panic_on_oom=1,
> kernel.panic=10) configured, the system would neither reboot nor
> would the OOM killer get any chance to otherwise do its job.
>
> The Amlogic reference source code uses a 2MB PHYS_OFFSET. With these 2MB
> reserved via DT, stress-ng was able to run on an Odroid C1+ just fine for
> several hours, the OOM killer was able to kill processes again and if
> configured would successfully trigger a reboot of the system.
>
> Fixes: 4a69fcd3a108 ("ARM: meson: Add DTS for Odroid-C1 and Tronfy MXQ boards")
> Signed-off-by: Linus Lüssing <linus.luessing-djzkFPsfvsizQB+pC5nmwQ@public.gmane.org>
Acked-by: Martin Blumenstingl <martin.blumenstingl-gM/Ye1E23mwN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>

>
> ---
> The following stress-ng command worked fine now:
> $ stress-ng -v --sequential 0 -t 120s --exclude sysfs,opcode --metrics
> (5 hours runtime, tested on an Odroid C1+ with an 4.14-rc1 kernel + SMP
> + USB DTS patches)
> ---
>  arch/arm/boot/dts/meson8b.dtsi | 12 ++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm/boot/dts/meson8b.dtsi b/arch/arm/boot/dts/meson8b.dtsi
> index bc278da..d75a5b5 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/boot/dts/meson8b.dtsi
> +++ b/arch/arm/boot/dts/meson8b.dtsi
> @@ -83,6 +83,18 @@
>                 };
>         };
>
> +       reserved-memory {
> +               #address-cells = <1>;
> +               #size-cells = <1>;
> +               ranges;
> +
> +               /* 2 MiB reserved for Hardware ROM Firmware? */
> +               hwrom@0 {
> +                       reg = <0x0 0x200000>;
> +                       no-map;
> +               };
> +       };
> +
>         scu@c4300000 {
>                 compatible = "arm,cortex-a5-scu";
>                 reg = <0xc4300000 0x100>;
> --
> 2.1.4
>
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Re: [PATCH] ARM: dts: meson8b: add reserved memory zone to fix silent freezes

[Linus Lüssing]

On Mon, Oct 23, 2017 at 09:47:21AM +0200, Linus Lüssing wrote:
> I'm currently continuing to bisect which difference in Emiliano's
> and my kernel image makes mine boot successfully but not
> Emiliano's. (And I'm continuing reading and testing with the
> filter-range option to better understand what it's presence - or
> absence - does exactly)

I found the difference between Emiliano's and my kernel image and
could narrow it down to this particular difference via bisecting:

Using the multi_v7_defconfig target, but with the following
two options unselected:

* System Type
  -> Qualcomm Support
     - Enable support for MSM8X60 (disabled)
     - Enable support for MSM8960 (disabled)

Results in the following diff, according to ./scripts/diffconfig:

-CLKSRC_QCOM y
-MSM_IOMMU n
 ARCH_MSM8960 y -> n
 ARCH_MSM8X60 y -> n

Once this is unselected, the kernel hangs for me on boot, too.
Both with or without this 2MB reserved memory region patch.

Removing the "arm,filter-ranges" as tried by Emiliano makes it
boot again.

Finally, what also helps booting again is this diff from the
pending SMP support patch series from Carlo/Martin [0]:

~~~~~
diff --git a/arch/arm/Makefile b/arch/arm/Makefile
index 47d3a1ab08d2..82faa958ab88 100644
--- a/arch/arm/Makefile
+++ b/arch/arm/Makefile
@@ -147,6 +147,7 @@  textofs-$(CONFIG_SA1111) := 0x00208000
 endif
 textofs-$(CONFIG_ARCH_MSM8X60) := 0x00208000
 textofs-$(CONFIG_ARCH_MSM8960) := 0x00208000
+textofs-$(CONFIG_ARCH_MESON) := 0x00208000
 textofs-$(CONFIG_ARCH_AXXIA) := 0x00308000
 
 # Machine directory name.  This list is sorted alphanumerically
~~~~~

Note the $(CONFIG_ARCH_MSM8X60) and $(CONFIG_ARCH_MSM8960) just
above. Sounds familiar :-)?

With this textofs diff alone, stress-ng still hangs though. Only
with the 2MB memory zone reserved via DT or the "arm,filter-ranges"
removed, stress-ng succeeds, too.

Regards, Linus

[0]: "[v7,4/6] ARM: meson: Add SMP bringup code for Meson8 and Meson8b"
     -> https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9954935/


On Mon, Oct 23, 2017 at 09:47:21AM +0200, Linus Lüssing wrote:
> Subject: Re: [PATCH] ARM: dts: meson8b: add reserved memory zone to fix silent freezes
> To: Kevin Hilman <khilman-rdvid1DuHRBWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>
> Cc: Carlo Caione <carlo-KA+7E9HrN00dnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org>, Kevin Hilman <khilman-rdvid1DuHRBWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>, Martin Blumenstingl <martin.blumenstingl-gM/Ye1E23mwN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>, Emiliano Ingrassia <ingrassia-rBIjXPeIPFWU+1/U8MakDg@public.gmane.org>, linux-amlogic-IAPFreCvJWM7uuMidbF8XUB+6BGkLq7r@public.gmane.org
> 
> Hi Kevin,
> 
> Just wanted to let you know that Emiliano and I are currently
> debugging further off-list.
> 
> So far I can reproduce that:
> 
> a) For the binary kernel image Emiliano sent me I can reproduce
> his hang ups during boot on my Odroid C1+.
> b) The 2MB reserved memory region this patch adds does not help
> for this image.
> c) Removing the "arm,filter-range" as proposed by Emiliano back
> then instead of adding this reserved memory zone fixes my freezes
> during boot in Emiliano's image and during stress-ng for my kernel
> image, too.
> 
> I'm currently continuing to bisect which difference in Emiliano's
> and my kernel image makes mine boot successfully but not
> Emiliano's. (And I'm continuing reading and testing with the
> filter-range option to better understand what it's presence - or
> absence - does exactly)
> 
> 
> If these observations ring a bell for anyone here, I'd be curious
> to hear what they think.
> 
> Regards, Linus
> 
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Re: [PATCH] ARM: dts: meson8b: add reserved memory zone to fix silent freezes

[Kevin Hilman]

Linus Lüssing <linus.luessing@c0d3.blue> writes:

> So far, the stress-ng tool for instance quickly resulted in a silent
> freeze of the system with no prior notice on a serial console when
> running its filesystem or memory stressor classes.
>
> Even with a panic-on-OOM and reboot-on-panic (vm.panic_on_oom=1,
> kernel.panic=10) configured, the system would neither reboot nor
> would the OOM killer get any chance to otherwise do its job.
>
> The Amlogic reference source code uses a 2MB PHYS_OFFSET. With these 2MB
> reserved via DT, stress-ng was able to run on an Odroid C1+ just fine for
> several hours, the OOM killer was able to kill processes again and if
> configured would successfully trigger a reboot of the system.
>
> Fixes: 4a69fcd3a108 ("ARM: meson: Add DTS for Odroid-C1 and Tronfy MXQ boards")
> Signed-off-by: Linus Lüssing <linus.luessing@c0d3.blue>

Applied to v4.15/dt with Martin's Tested-by,

Thanks,

Kevin