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

Hiremath, Vaibhav hvaibhav at ti.com
Fri Aug 3 06:34:28 EDT 2012


On Fri, Aug 03, 2012 at 15:44:32, Shilimkar, Santosh wrote:
> 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.
> 

Actually its not that.
AM335x needs to be added as part of cpu_class_is_omap2(), without this it 
gets into issues. 
The patch has been already submitted to the list, but still not merged by 
Tony.

Thanks,
Vaibhav



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