[PATCH] ARM: dts: meson: fixing USB support on Meson6, Meson8 and Meson8b

[Emiliano Ingrassia]

On Sun, Sep 24, 2017 at 06:28:03AM +0200, Linus Lüssing wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 22, 2017 at 01:57:08PM +0200, Emiliano Ingrassia wrote:
> > This patch fixes the Meson6, Meson8 and Meson8b USB controllers dts nodes
> > which interrupts are level type instead of edge type.
> > This avoids errors like "usb 1-1-port1: cannot reset (err = -110)" and
> > similars on Odroid-C1+ board.
> > 
> > Fixes: e29b1cf87473 ("ARM: dts: meson: add USB support on Meson8 and Meson8b")
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Emiliano Ingrassia <ingrassia at epigenesys.com>
> 

Hi Linus,

> Hi Emiliano,
> 
> Yes! I can confirm that these two patches made me able to boot a
> Debian unstable from a USB stick on an Odroid C1+ for the first time.
> I tested both a v4.13.2 kernel and a v4.14-rc1 with the SMP
> patches included.
> 

Good to hear! Thanks for testing.

> 
> I'm having one oddity with the stress-ng tool though: Several
> filesystem related tests make the Odroid hang for me. This works for
> me:
> 
> $ cd /tmp/; time stress-ng -v --class filesystem --sequential 1 --exclude copy-file -t 30s
> (with /tmp being a tmpfs)
> 
> Those tests make the system hang for me almost immediately, though:
> 
> $ cd ~/; time stress-ng -v -t 30s --chdir 1
> $ cd ~/; time stress-ng -v -t 30s --dir 1
> $ cd ~/; time stress-ng -v -t 30s --dirdeep 1
> $ cd ~/; time stress-ng -v -t 30s --fallocate 1
> $ cd ~/; time stress-ng -v -t 30s --mknod 1
> $ cd ~/; time stress-ng -v -t 30s --sync-file 1
> $ cd ~/; time stress-ng -v -t 30s --xattr 1
> 

I'm sorry, as soon as I can I'll try those tests on my board.

> Unfortunately, there is no error message on my serial console
> then, it just hangs silently with the heartbeat LED stopping to
> blink.
> 
> I also tried:
> 
> * Using a USB connected hdd instead of the USB flash drive, with
>   an actively powered USB hub in between.
> * Using a clean v4.13.2 with the patched v4.14-rc1 DTB file
>   instead of v4.14-rc1 kernel (with the SMP patches included).
> 
> Both without success. I also experienced a two freezes while
> apt-get installing a few patches.
>

Could you list all the kernels you have tried (included versions and patches) ?

> Anyone having an idea how I could make those crashes more
> verbose or what else I could try? Or could it be that it freezes
> so silently due to some sort of internal power issues? (I got a
> little paranoid with power stuff since the confirmed,
> hardware related power issues on the Odroid U3)
> 
> Regards, Linus

Regards,

Emiliano