[PATCH 1/3] ARM: OMAP: timer: allow gp timer clock-event to be used on both cpus

Shilimkar, Santosh santosh.shilimkar at ti.com
Fri Aug 3 06:14:32 EDT 2012


On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 3:34 PM, Koen Kooi <koen at dominion.thruhere.net> wrote:
>
> Op 3 aug. 2012, om 11:42 heeft "Hiremath, Vaibhav" <hvaibhav at ti.com> het volgende geschreven:
>
>> On Fri, Aug 03, 2012 at 15:03:07, Koen Kooi wrote:
>>>
>>> Op 3 aug. 2012, om 11:27 heeft "Shilimkar, Santosh" <santosh.shilimkar at ti.com> het volgende geschreven:
>>>
>>>> On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 2:00 PM, Koen Kooi <koen at dominion.thruhere.net> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Op 3 aug. 2012, om 09:21 heeft Koen Kooi <koen at dominion.thruhere.net> het volgende geschreven:
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Op 3 aug. 2012, om 09:16 heeft Daniel Mack <zonque at gmail.com> het volgende geschreven:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On 30.03.2012 15:27, Santosh Shilimkar wrote:
>>>>>>>> For coupled cpuidle to work when both cpus are active, it needs a global timer
>>>>>>>> that can handle events for both cpus.  This timer is used as the broadcast
>>>>>>>> clock-event when the per-cpu timer hardware stop in low power states.
>>>>>>>> Set the cpumask of clockevent_gpt to all cpus, set the rating correctly, and
>>>>>>>> set the irq to allow the clockevent core to determine the affinity of the
>>>>>>>> timer.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> These patches made it to mainline now, shortly befor 3.6-rc1, and it
>>>>>>> breaks boot on my AM33xx board.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Once I revert 1/3, the board boots again but crashes with the Ooops
>>>>>>> below. With the entire series reverted, everything works again as
>>>>>>> expected. Any idea?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> The upstream commit ids are
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> 11d6ec2e "ARM: OMAP: timer: allow gp timer clock-event to be used on
>>>>>>> both cpus"
>>>>>>> 5b4d5bcc "ARM: OMAP4: CPUidle: add synchronization for coupled idle states"
>>>>>>> b93d70ae "ARM: OMAP4: CPUidle: Open broadcast clock-event device."
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I've had boot problems with cpuidle enabled as well, what happens if you disable it? Is the revert still needed in that case?
>>>>>
>>>>> To answer my own question: No, the reverts aren't needed if you disable cpuidle.
>>>>
>>>> This is really strange since CPUIDLE code is really OMAP4 specific.
>>>> obj-$(CONFIG_ARCH_OMAP4)                += cpuidle44xx.o
>>>>
>>>> May be omap2plus build some how the code gets executed on AMXX
>>>>
>>>> Can you try below and see if the boot with CPUIDLE enabled goes away on
>>>> AMXX
>>>>
>>>> diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-omap2/pm44xx.c b/arch/arm/mach-omap2/pm44xx.c
>>>> index ea24174..195e756 100644
>>>> --- a/arch/arm/mach-omap2/pm44xx.c
>>>> +++ b/arch/arm/mach-omap2/pm44xx.c
>>>> @@ -147,6 +147,9 @@ int __init omap4_pm_init(void)
>>>>       struct clockdomain *emif_clkdm, *mpuss_clkdm, *l3_1_clkdm, *l4wkup;
>>>>       struct clockdomain *ducati_clkdm, *l3_2_clkdm, *l4_per_clkdm;
>>>>
>>>> +       if (!cpu_is_omap44xx())
>>>> +               return -ENODEV;
>>>> +
>>>>       if (omap_rev() == OMAP4430_REV_ES1_0) {
>>>>               WARN(1, "Power Management not supported on OMAP4430 ES1.0\n");
>>>>               return -ENODEV;
>>>
>>> That does seem to fix it:
>>>
>>> root at beaglebone:~# zcat /proc/config.gz | grep -i cpu_idle
>>> CONFIG_CPU_IDLE=y
>>> CONFIG_CPU_IDLE_GOV_LADDER=y
>>> CONFIG_CPU_IDLE_GOV_MENU=y
>>> CONFIG_ARCH_NEEDS_CPU_IDLE_COUPLED=y
>>> root at beaglebone:~# zcat /proc/config.gz | grep -i omap4
>>> CONFIG_ARCH_OMAP4=y
>>> CONFIG_MACH_OMAP4_PANDA=y
>>> # CONFIG_OMAP4_ERRATA_I688 is not set
>>> # CONFIG_KEYBOARD_OMAP4 is not set
>>> CONFIG_OMAP4_DSS_HDMI=y
>>>
>>
>> This patch is not required, Without this patch is works for me,
>
> I just retested and I don't need Santosh' patch, booting with cpuidle enable works now, after refreshing your patchset (and dropping the rtc commit, it conflicts with the other rtc patches out there).
>
Thanks Koen for confirming. That means the issues was coming from
additional patching on top of 3.6-rc1
where some patches were not refreshed for AMXX.

Regards
Santosh

Regards
Santosh



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