[PATCH v2 0/4] Exynos 5410 Dual cluster support

Tarek Dakhran t.dakhran at samsung.com
Thu Oct 17 10:02:05 EDT 2013


On 17.10.2013 17:04, Aliaksei Katovich wrote:
> hi Kevin;
>
>> Vyacheslav Tyrtov <v.tyrtov at samsung.com> writes:
>>
>>> The series of patches represent support of Exynos 5410 SoC
>>>      
>>> The Exynos 5410 is the first Samsung SoC based on bigLITTLE architecture.
>>> Patches allow all 8 CPU cores (4 x A7 and 4 x A15) to run at the same time
>>>      
>>> Patches add new platform description, support of clock controller,
>>> dual cluster support and device tree for Exynos 5410
>>>     
>>> Has been build on v3.12-rc5.
>>> Has been tested on Exynos 5410 reference board (exynos_defconfig).
>> Has anyone tried this on the exynos5410 based odroid-xu yet?
>>
>> I tried booting this on my recently arrived odroid-xu, but am not
>> getting it to boot.
> 	I am able to boot my odroid-xu+e to busybox with these patches applied
> 	against 3.12-rc5: exynos_defconfig and exynos5410-smdk5410.dtb were
> 	used.
>
> 	However there seem to be some issues with virq allocations, like this:
>
> <snippet>
> Starting kernel ...
>                     
> [    0.000000] [<c0014d48>] (unwind_backtrace+0x0/0xf8) from [<c00117d0>] (show_stack+0x10/0x14)
> [    0.000000] [<c00117d0>] (show_stack+0x10/0x14) from [<c0363488>] (dump_stack+0x6c/0xac)
> [    0.000000] [<c0363488>] (dump_stack+0x6c/0xac) from [<c001e330>] (warn_slowpath_common+0x64/0x88)
> [    0.000000] [<c001e330>] (warn_slowpath_common+0x64/0x88) from [<c001e3e8>] (warn_slowpath_fmt+0x30/0x40)
> [    0.000000] [<c001e3e8>] (warn_slowpath_fmt+0x30/0x40) from [<c005a1b4>] (irq_domain_associate+0x128/0x1a8)
> [    0.000000] [<c005a1b4>] (irq_domain_associate+0x128/0x1a8) from [<c005a508>] (irq_domain_associate_many+0x30/0x3c
> )
> [    0.000000] [<c005a508>] (irq_domain_associate_many+0x30/0x3c) from [<c005a768>] (irq_domain_add_simple+0x78/0x90)
> [    0.000000] [<c005a768>] (irq_domain_add_simple+0x78/0x90) from [<c04b044c>] (combiner_of_init+0xb4/0x198)
> [    0.000000] [<c04b044c>] (combiner_of_init+0xb4/0x198) from [<c04b6938>] (of_irq_init+0x278/0x2a0)
> [    0.000000] [<c04b6938>] (of_irq_init+0x278/0x2a0) from [<c049b8fc>] (start_kernel+0x18c/0x384)
> [    0.000000] [<c049b8fc>] (start_kernel+0x18c/0x384) from [<40008074>] (0x40008074)
> [    0.000000] ---[ end trace 1b75b31a2719edcd ]---
> [    0.000000] ------------[ cut here ]------------
> [    0.000000] WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 0 at kernel/irq/irqdomain.c:278 irq_domain_associate+0x128/0x1a8()
> [    0.000000] error: virq337 is not allocated
> [    0.000000] Modules linked in:
> [    0.000000] CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/0 Tainted: G        W    3.12.0-rc5-00004-g1cb405f #1
> [    0.000000] [<c0014d48>] (unwind_backtrace+0x0/0xf8) from [<c00117d0>] (show_stack+0x10/0x14)
> [    0.000000] [<c00117d0>] (show_stack+0x10/0x14) from [<c0363488>] (dump_stack+0x6c/0xac)
> [    0.000000] [<c0363488>] (dump_stack+0x6c/0xac) from [<c001e330>] (warn_slowpath_common+0x64/0x88)
> [    0.000000] [<c001e330>] (warn_slowpath_common+0x64/0x88) from [<c001e3e8>] (warn_slowpath_fmt+0x30/0x40)
> [    0.000000] [<c001e3e8>] (warn_slowpath_fmt+0x30/0x40) from [<c005a1b4>] (irq_domain_associate+0x128/0x1a8)
> [    0.000000] [<c005a1b4>] (irq_domain_associate+0x128/0x1a8) from [<c005a508>] (irq_domain_associate_many+0x30/0x3c
> )
> [    0.000000] [<c005a508>] (irq_domain_associate_many+0x30/0x3c) from [<c005a768>] (irq_domain_add_simple+0x78/0x90)
> [    0.000000] [<c005a768>] (irq_domain_add_simple+0x78/0x90) from [<c04b044c>] (combiner_of_init+0xb4/0x198)
> [    0.000000] [<c04b044c>] (combiner_of_init+0xb4/0x198) from [<c04b6938>] (of_irq_init+0x278/0x2a0)
> [    0.000000] [<c04b6938>] (of_irq_init+0x278/0x2a0) from [<c049b8fc>] (start_kernel+0x18c/0x384)
> [    0.000000] [<c049b8fc>] (start_kernel+0x18c/0x384) from [<40008074>] (0x40008074)
> [    0.000000] ---[ end trace 1b75b31a2719edce ]---
> [    0.000000] ------------[ cut here ]------------
> </snippet>
>
> 	You can check full boot log here http://sprunge.us/NKcU
>
> --
> Aliaksei
>
>> I'm not yet terribly familiar with this SoC, what are the settings
>> needed for DEBUG_LL on this board?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Kevin
>>
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Also change NR_CPUS to 8 in kernel config, so you will get 8 cores 
booted instead of 2.

Best regards,
     Tarek Dakhran



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