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

[Santosh Shilimkar]

On Sunday 11 May 2014 11:55 AM, Tony Lindgren wrote:
> * Kevin Hilman <khilman at linaro.org> [140509 16:46]:
>> 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.
> 
> But what has caused this regression, does it work reliably with let's
> say v3.13 or v3.12?
> 
IIRC things were stable till some CPUIDLE code consolidation happened.
I don't recall exactly but some one did discuss about it a while back.

Can you re-run your test-cases with patch at end of the email. This
is just a hunch so don't blame me if I waste your time testing the
patch.

regards,
Santosh

>From bdd30d68f8fa659aa0e3ce436f94029a7719036b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar at ti.com>
Date: Mon, 12 May 2014 17:37:59 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Revert "cpuidle / omap4 : use CPUIDLE_FLAG_TIMER_STOP flag"

This reverts commit cb7094e848f7bcaa0a4cda3db4b232f08dbf5b78.

Conflicts:

	arch/arm/mach-omap2/cpuidle44xx.c
---
 arch/arm/mach-omap2/cpuidle44xx.c |   11 +++++++----
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-omap2/cpuidle44xx.c b/arch/arm/mach-omap2/cpuidle44xx.c
index 01fc710..aae3606 100644
--- a/arch/arm/mach-omap2/cpuidle44xx.c
+++ b/arch/arm/mach-omap2/cpuidle44xx.c
@@ -83,6 +83,7 @@ static int omap_enter_idle_coupled(struct cpuidle_device *dev,
 {
 	struct idle_statedata *cx = state_ptr + index;
 	u32 mpuss_can_lose_context = 0;
+	int cpu_id = smp_processor_id();
 
 	/*
 	 * CPU0 has to wait and stay ON until CPU1 is OFF state.
@@ -110,6 +111,8 @@ static int omap_enter_idle_coupled(struct cpuidle_device *dev,
 	mpuss_can_lose_context = (cx->mpu_state == PWRDM_POWER_RET) &&
 				 (cx->mpu_logic_state == PWRDM_POWER_OFF);
 
+	clockevents_notify(CLOCK_EVT_NOTIFY_BROADCAST_ENTER, &cpu_id);
+
 	/*
 	 * Call idle CPU PM enter notifier chain so that
 	 * VFP and per CPU interrupt context is saved.
@@ -165,6 +168,8 @@ static int omap_enter_idle_coupled(struct cpuidle_device *dev,
 	if (dev->cpu == 0 && mpuss_can_lose_context)
 		cpu_cluster_pm_exit();
 
+	clockevents_notify(CLOCK_EVT_NOTIFY_BROADCAST_EXIT, &cpu_id);
+
 fail:
 	cpuidle_coupled_parallel_barrier(dev, &abort_barrier);
 	cpu_done[dev->cpu] = false;
@@ -189,8 +194,7 @@ static struct cpuidle_driver omap4_idle_driver = {
 			/* C2 - CPU0 OFF + CPU1 OFF + MPU CSWR */
 			.exit_latency = 328 + 440,
 			.target_residency = 960,
-			.flags = CPUIDLE_FLAG_TIME_VALID | CPUIDLE_FLAG_COUPLED |
-			         CPUIDLE_FLAG_TIMER_STOP,
+			.flags = CPUIDLE_FLAG_TIME_VALID | CPUIDLE_FLAG_COUPLED,
 			.enter = omap_enter_idle_coupled,
 			.name = "C2",
 			.desc = "CPUx OFF, MPUSS CSWR",
@@ -199,8 +203,7 @@ static struct cpuidle_driver omap4_idle_driver = {
 			/* C3 - CPU0 OFF + CPU1 OFF + MPU OSWR */
 			.exit_latency = 460 + 518,
 			.target_residency = 1100,
-			.flags = CPUIDLE_FLAG_TIME_VALID | CPUIDLE_FLAG_COUPLED |
-			         CPUIDLE_FLAG_TIMER_STOP,
+			.flags = CPUIDLE_FLAG_TIME_VALID | CPUIDLE_FLAG_COUPLED,
 			.enter = omap_enter_idle_coupled,
 			.name = "C3",
 			.desc = "CPUx OFF, MPUSS OSWR",
-- 
1.7.9.5