Boot hang regression 3.10.0-rc4 -> 3.10.0

Rajendra Nayak rnayak at ti.com
Tue Jul 9 03:19:10 EDT 2013


On Tuesday 09 July 2013 12:12 PM, Felipe Balbi wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Tue, Jul 09, 2013 at 11:03:54AM +0530, Rajendra Nayak wrote:
>> On Monday 08 July 2013 07:05 PM, Felipe Balbi wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> On Mon, Jul 08, 2013 at 06:50:01PM +0530, Rajendra Nayak wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> I wonder if this is because the timeouts get now initialized to 0 instead
>>>>>>>>>> of -1 for the serial driver?
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> You meant initialized to -1, right? There's an additional check for timeout being 0. Unless i
>>>>>>>>> am missing something DT-boot will start off with timeout set to 0 and then get forced to -1.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> OK
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Issue 2: Causing boot to stop when serial driver is initialized.
>>>>>> (After Issue 1 is fixed)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I could narrow this down to the change done to return -EINVAL
>>>>>> instead of 0 in serial_omap_get_context_loss_count() as part of
>>>>>> commit 'a630fbfbb1beeffc5bbe542a7986bf2068874633' "serial: omap:
>>>>>> Fix device tree based PM runtime"
>>>>>>
>>>>>> What this change in turn seems to do is cause a
>>>>>> serial_omap_restore_context() to get called as part of
>>>>>> serial_omap_runtime_resume() which was not the case when
>>>>>> serial_omap_get_context_loss_count() returned 0
>>>>>>
>>>>>> from serial_omap_runtime_resume():
>>>>>> -----
>>>>>>         int loss_cnt = serial_omap_get_context_loss_count(up);
>>>>>>
>>>>>>         if (loss_cnt < 0) {
>>>>>>                 dev_dbg(dev, "serial_omap_get_context_loss_count failed : %d\n",
>>>>>>                         loss_cnt);
>>>>>>                 serial_omap_restore_context(up);
>>>>>>         } else if (up->context_loss_cnt != loss_cnt) {
>>>>>>                 serial_omap_restore_context(up);
>>>>>>         }
>>>>>> -----
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I am still working on why a serial_omap_restore_context() could
>>>>>> have caused console to die. I will work with Sourav on this and
>>>>>> post the fixes for both issue 1 and issue2 once its clear on whats
>>>>>> really causing issue 2.
>>>>>
>>>>> That's because we don't have the omap specific pdata callbacks for
>>>>> context loss any longer. We may be able to detect when the context
>>>>> was really lost in the serial driver, and only then call the
>>>>> serial_omap_restore_context().
>>>>
>>>> Right, but calling serial_omap_restore_context() even when the context
>>>> is not lost, should not ideally cause an issue.
>>>
>>> it does in one condition. If context hasn't been saved before. And that
>>> can happen in the case of wrong pm runtime status for that device.
>>>
>>> Imagine the device is marked as suspended even though it's fully enabled
>>> (it hasn't been suspended by hwmod due to NO_IDLE flag). In that case
>>> your context structure is all zeroes (context has never been saved
>>> before) then when you call pm_runtime_get_sync() on probe() your
>>> ->runtime_resume() will get called, which will restore context,
>>> essentially undoing anything which was configured by u-boot.
>>
>> This could be a problem for drivers which do a save context in ->runtime_suspend()
>> but from what I see with omap serial, there is no save context done as part of
>> ->runtime_suspend.
> 
> right, because context is "saved" in set_termios. probe() will get
> called much before set_termios() has a chance to run, right ?
> 
> Same problem will trigger in that case.
> 
> I still think patch below is necessary

Right, I'll try some on those lines. Looks like a pm_runtime_set_active() is done
for the console in the non DT case in omap_serial_init_port(). It seems to be
missing in the DT case.

Although I feel this should fix the issue we have right now, I wonder if there could
ever be a case with uart being suspended and having to resume again before a
set_termios? What I mean to ask is, if the omap serial driver assuming a resume to
happen only post a set_termios is always valid.

> 
>>> (completely untested, didn't even try to compile, just to illustrate)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-omap2/omap_hwmod.c b/arch/arm/mach-omap2/omap_hwmod.c
>>> index 7341eff..d8dca68 100644
>>> --- a/arch/arm/mach-omap2/omap_hwmod.c
>>> +++ b/arch/arm/mach-omap2/omap_hwmod.c
>>> @@ -2559,6 +2559,12 @@ static void __init _setup_postsetup(struct omap_hwmod *oh)
>>>  	    (postsetup_state == _HWMOD_STATE_IDLE)) {
>>>  		oh->_int_flags |= _HWMOD_SKIP_ENABLE;
>>>  		postsetup_state = _HWMOD_STATE_ENABLED;
>>> +
>>> +		/* tell pm_runtime this device is already active */
>>> +		pm_runtime_set_active(&oh->od->pdev->dev);
>>> +	} else {
>>> +		/* tell pm_runtime this device is trully suspended */
>>> +		pm_runtime_set_suspended(&oh->od->pdev->dev);
>>>  	}
>>>  
>>>  	if (postsetup_state == _HWMOD_STATE_IDLE)
> 




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