ARM on qemu: running kernel 2.6.20 or newer?

ARM on qemu: running kernel 2.6.20 or newer?

[Thomas Bleher]

Is anyone testing ARM kernels on qemu?

I'm trying to run an ARM kernel on qemu (0.9.1-5) on a Debian AMD64
system. 2.6.19 worked fine, but all newer kernel releases[1] result in
qemu consuming 100% of the CPU without ever outputting anything to the
console.

I did a bisect, and the failing commit is
    1c69d921ed9cc6593ad4f60c0f9951cb0d62b0b4 (v2.6.19-1675-g1c69d92)
    [PATCH] rcu: add a prefetch() in rcu_do_batch()
but I have no idea what could make the boot fail there.

The kernel is cross-compiled using gcc 4.3.1 from Emdebian.org.

Does anyone have any idea what might be wrong here? I have a hard time
imagining that I'm the only one running newer ARM kernels on qemu. Any
pointers to working configs or patches to make it work would be very
much appreciated.

Regards,
Thomas Bleher

PS: Please CC me on replys. Thanks!

[1] I tested 2.6.2{0..5} and 2.6.26-rc5.

$ grep ^C .config:
CONFIG_ARM=y
CONFIG_MMU=y
CONFIG_GENERIC_HARDIRQS=y
CONFIG_TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT=y
CONFIG_HARDIRQS_SW_RESEND=y
CONFIG_GENERIC_IRQ_PROBE=y
CONFIG_RWSEM_GENERIC_SPINLOCK=y
CONFIG_GENERIC_HWEIGHT=y
CONFIG_GENERIC_CALIBRATE_DELAY=y
CONFIG_VECTORS_BASE=0xffff0000
CONFIG_DEFCONFIG_LIST="/lib/modules/$UNAME_RELEASE/.config"
CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL=y
CONFIG_BROKEN_ON_SMP=y
CONFIG_INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT=32
CONFIG_LOCALVERSION=""
CONFIG_LOCALVERSION_AUTO=y
CONFIG_SWAP=y
CONFIG_SYSVIPC=y
CONFIG_IKCONFIG=y
CONFIG_IKCONFIG_PROC=y
CONFIG_INITRAMFS_SOURCE=""
CONFIG_CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE=y
CONFIG_SYSCTL=y
CONFIG_UID16=y
CONFIG_SYSCTL_SYSCALL=y
CONFIG_KALLSYMS=y
CONFIG_HOTPLUG=y
CONFIG_PRINTK=y
CONFIG_BUG=y
CONFIG_ELF_CORE=y
CONFIG_BASE_FULL=y
CONFIG_FUTEX=y
CONFIG_EPOLL=y
CONFIG_SHMEM=y
CONFIG_SLAB=y
CONFIG_VM_EVENT_COUNTERS=y
CONFIG_RT_MUTEXES=y
CONFIG_BASE_SMALL=0
CONFIG_BLOCK=y
CONFIG_IOSCHED_NOOP=y
CONFIG_IOSCHED_AS=y
CONFIG_IOSCHED_DEADLINE=y
CONFIG_IOSCHED_CFQ=y
CONFIG_DEFAULT_AS=y
CONFIG_DEFAULT_IOSCHED="anticipatory"
CONFIG_ARCH_INTEGRATOR=y
CONFIG_ARCH_INTEGRATOR_CP=y
CONFIG_ARCH_CINTEGRATOR=y
CONFIG_CPU_32=y
CONFIG_CPU_ARM926T=y
CONFIG_CPU_ARM1026=y
CONFIG_CPU_32v5=y
CONFIG_CPU_ABRT_EV5T=y
CONFIG_CPU_ABRT_EV5TJ=y
CONFIG_CPU_CACHE_VIVT=y
CONFIG_CPU_COPY_V4WB=y
CONFIG_CPU_TLB_V4WBI=y
CONFIG_CPU_CP15=y
CONFIG_CPU_CP15_MMU=y
CONFIG_ARM_THUMB=y
CONFIG_ICST525=y
CONFIG_ARM_AMBA=y
CONFIG_HZ=100
CONFIG_AEABI=y
CONFIG_OABI_COMPAT=y
CONFIG_SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL=y
CONFIG_FLATMEM_MANUAL=y
CONFIG_FLATMEM=y
CONFIG_FLAT_NODE_MEM_MAP=y
CONFIG_SPLIT_PTLOCK_CPUS=4096
CONFIG_LEDS=y
CONFIG_LEDS_TIMER=y
CONFIG_LEDS_CPU=y
CONFIG_ALIGNMENT_TRAP=y
CONFIG_ZBOOT_ROM_TEXT=0x0
CONFIG_ZBOOT_ROM_BSS=0x0
CONFIG_CMDLINE=""
CONFIG_CPU_FREQ=y
CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_TABLE=y
CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_STAT=y
CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_DEFAULT_GOV_PERFORMANCE=y
CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_GOV_PERFORMANCE=y
CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_GOV_POWERSAVE=y
CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_GOV_USERSPACE=y
CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_GOV_ONDEMAND=y
CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_INTEGRATOR=y
CONFIG_FPE_NWFPE=y
CONFIG_VFP=y
CONFIG_BINFMT_ELF=y
CONFIG_BINFMT_MISC=y
CONFIG_PM=y
CONFIG_PM_LEGACY=y
CONFIG_APM=y
CONFIG_NET=y
CONFIG_PACKET=y
CONFIG_PACKET_MMAP=y
CONFIG_UNIX=y
CONFIG_XFRM=y
CONFIG_INET=y
CONFIG_IP_MULTICAST=y
CONFIG_IP_FIB_HASH=y
CONFIG_IP_PNP=y
CONFIG_IP_PNP_DHCP=y
CONFIG_IP_PNP_BOOTP=y
CONFIG_NET_IPIP=y
CONFIG_NET_IPGRE=y
CONFIG_NET_IPGRE_BROADCAST=y
CONFIG_IP_MROUTE=y
CONFIG_IP_PIMSM_V1=y
CONFIG_IP_PIMSM_V2=y
CONFIG_ARPD=y
CONFIG_SYN_COOKIES=y
CONFIG_INET_AH=y
CONFIG_INET_ESP=y
CONFIG_INET_IPCOMP=y
CONFIG_INET_XFRM_TUNNEL=y
CONFIG_INET_TUNNEL=y
CONFIG_INET_DIAG=y
CONFIG_INET_TCP_DIAG=y
CONFIG_TCP_CONG_CUBIC=y
CONFIG_DEFAULT_TCP_CONG="cubic"
CONFIG_BRIDGE=y
CONFIG_VLAN_8021Q=y
CONFIG_LLC=y
CONFIG_STANDALONE=y
CONFIG_PREVENT_FIRMWARE_BUILD=y
CONFIG_CONNECTOR=y
CONFIG_PROC_EVENTS=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_LOOP=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_NBD=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM_COUNT=16
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM_SIZE=8192
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM_BLOCKSIZE=1024
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD=y
CONFIG_NETDEVICES=y
CONFIG_NET_ETHERNET=y
CONFIG_MII=y
CONFIG_SMC91X=y
CONFIG_INPUT=y
CONFIG_INPUT_MOUSEDEV=y
CONFIG_INPUT_MOUSEDEV_PSAUX=y
CONFIG_INPUT_MOUSEDEV_SCREEN_X=1024
CONFIG_INPUT_MOUSEDEV_SCREEN_Y=768
CONFIG_INPUT_KEYBOARD=y
CONFIG_KEYBOARD_ATKBD=y
CONFIG_INPUT_MOUSE=y
CONFIG_MOUSE_PS2=y
CONFIG_INPUT_MISC=y
CONFIG_SERIO=y
CONFIG_SERIO_AMBAKMI=y
CONFIG_SERIO_LIBPS2=y
CONFIG_VT=y
CONFIG_VT_CONSOLE=y
CONFIG_HW_CONSOLE=y
CONFIG_SERIAL_AMBA_PL011=y
CONFIG_SERIAL_AMBA_PL011_CONSOLE=y
CONFIG_SERIAL_CORE=y
CONFIG_SERIAL_CORE_CONSOLE=y
CONFIG_UNIX98_PTYS=y
CONFIG_LEGACY_PTYS=y
CONFIG_LEGACY_PTY_COUNT=256
CONFIG_HW_RANDOM=y
CONFIG_FB=y
CONFIG_FB_CFB_FILLRECT=y
CONFIG_FB_CFB_COPYAREA=y
CONFIG_FB_CFB_IMAGEBLIT=y
CONFIG_FB_MODE_HELPERS=y
CONFIG_FB_TILEBLITTING=y
CONFIG_FB_ARMCLCD=y
CONFIG_DUMMY_CONSOLE=y
CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE=y
CONFIG_FONT_8x8=y
CONFIG_FONT_8x16=y
CONFIG_LOGO=y
CONFIG_LOGO_LINUX_MONO=y
CONFIG_LOGO_LINUX_VGA16=y
CONFIG_LOGO_LINUX_CLUT224=y
CONFIG_USB_ARCH_HAS_HCD=y
CONFIG_MMC=y
CONFIG_MMC_BLOCK=y
CONFIG_MMC_ARMMMCI=y
CONFIG_RTC_LIB=y
CONFIG_RTC_CLASS=y
CONFIG_RTC_INTF_SYSFS=y
CONFIG_RTC_INTF_PROC=y
CONFIG_RTC_INTF_DEV=y
CONFIG_EXT2_FS=y
CONFIG_INOTIFY=y
CONFIG_DNOTIFY=y
CONFIG_PROC_FS=y
CONFIG_PROC_SYSCTL=y
CONFIG_SYSFS=y
CONFIG_TMPFS=y
CONFIG_RAMFS=y
CONFIG_CRAMFS=y
CONFIG_NFS_FS=y
CONFIG_NFS_V3=y
CONFIG_NFSD=y
CONFIG_NFSD_V3=y
CONFIG_ROOT_NFS=y
CONFIG_LOCKD=y
CONFIG_LOCKD_V4=y
CONFIG_EXPORTFS=y
CONFIG_NFS_COMMON=y
CONFIG_SUNRPC=y
CONFIG_SMB_FS=y
CONFIG_PARTITION_ADVANCED=y
CONFIG_MSDOS_PARTITION=y
CONFIG_NLS=y
CONFIG_NLS_DEFAULT="iso8859-1"
CONFIG_MAGIC_SYSRQ=y
CONFIG_DEBUG_KERNEL=y
CONFIG_LOG_BUF_SHIFT=14
CONFIG_DETECT_SOFTLOCKUP=y
CONFIG_DEBUG_MUTEXES=y
CONFIG_DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE=y
CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO=y
CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER=y
CONFIG_FORCED_INLINING=y
CONFIG_DEBUG_ERRORS=y
CONFIG_CRYPTO=y
CONFIG_CRYPTO_ALGAPI=y
CONFIG_CRYPTO_BLKCIPHER=y
CONFIG_CRYPTO_HASH=y
CONFIG_CRYPTO_MANAGER=y
CONFIG_CRYPTO_HMAC=y
CONFIG_CRYPTO_MD5=y
CONFIG_CRYPTO_SHA1=y
CONFIG_CRYPTO_CBC=y
CONFIG_CRYPTO_DES=y
CONFIG_CRYPTO_DEFLATE=y
CONFIG_CRC32=y
CONFIG_ZLIB_INFLATE=y
CONFIG_ZLIB_DEFLATE=y
CONFIG_PLIST=y

Re: ARM on qemu: running kernel 2.6.20 or newer?

[Frans Pop]

Thomas Bleher wrote:
> I'm trying to run an ARM kernel on qemu (0.9.1-5) on a Debian AMD64
> system. 2.6.19 worked fine, but all newer kernel releases[1] result in
> qemu consuming 100% of the CPU without ever outputting anything to the
> console.

The daily built armel versatile D-I images [1] worked fine for me in qemu 
just a few days ago. They use 2.6.24. There's one issue [2] related to 
serial console, but graphics mode works fine.

Cheers,
FJP

[1] http://wiki.debian.org/ArmEabiHowto
[2] http://bugs.debian.org/484366

Re: ARM on qemu: running kernel 2.6.20 or newer?

[Thomas Bleher]

* Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl> [2008-06-05 16:44]:
> Thomas Bleher wrote:
> > I'm trying to run an ARM kernel on qemu (0.9.1-5) on a Debian AMD64
> > system. 2.6.19 worked fine, but all newer kernel releases[1] result in
> > qemu consuming 100% of the CPU without ever outputting anything to the
> > console.
> 
> The daily built armel versatile D-I images [1] worked fine for me in qemu 
> just a few days ago. They use 2.6.24. There's one issue [2] related to 
> serial console, but graphics mode works fine.
> 
> [1] http://wiki.debian.org/ArmEabiHowto
> [2] http://bugs.debian.org/484366

Thank you for the fast response!
I did some further tests, and it looks like the Emdebian cross-compiler
miscompiles newer kernels, at least for the configs I tested. Using the
ELDK cross-compiler instead, the kernel boots fine under qemu.

I don't think I'll have time to further debug this issue, but I've cc'ed
debian-embedded@l.d.o, in case anyone is interested in tracking this
down. I'll provide .configs + vmlinux files on request.

Regards,
Thomas Bleher