omap4-panda-es boot issues with v3.15-rc4

Kevin Hilman khilman at linaro.org
Fri May 9 16:45:33 PDT 2014


Roger Quadros <rogerq at ti.com> writes:

> Kevin,
>
> On 05/09/2014 01:15 AM, Kevin Hilman wrote:
>> Tony Lindgren <tony at atomide.com> writes:
>> 
>> [...]
>> 
>>> ..but I think I found the cause for recent hangs on panda, just a wild
>>> guess based on looking at the recent cpuidle patches after v3.14.
>>>
>>> Looks like reverting 0b89e9aa2856 (cpuidle: delay enabling interrupts
>>> until all coupled CPUs leave idle) makes booting work reliably again
>>> on panda.
>>>
>>> Can you guys confirm, so far no issues here after few boot tests,
>>> but it might be too early to tell.
>> 
>> Reverting that makes things a bit more stable, but it still eventually
>> fails in the same way.  For me it took 8 boots for it to eventually
>> fail.
>> 
>> However, if I build with CONFIG_CPU_IDLE=n, it becomes much more stable
>> (20+ boots in a row and still going.)
>> 
>
> Can you please test with CPU_IDLE enabled but C3 disabled as in below patch?
> It worked for me 10/10 boots.

Yup, it worked for me too for 10/10 boots in a row.

Kevin



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