[PATCH] ARM: OMAP4: Fix the boot regression with CPU_IDLE enabled

Daniel Lezcano daniel.lezcano at linaro.org
Tue May 27 14:06:28 PDT 2014


On 05/27/2014 11:03 PM, Santosh Shilimkar wrote:
> On Tuesday 27 May 2014 04:34 PM, Tony Lindgren wrote:
>> * Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano at linaro.org> [140523 13:53]:
>>> On 23 May 2014 20:32, Tony Lindgren <tony at atomide.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> * Tony Lindgren <tony at atomide.com> [140523 07:45]:
>>>>> * Tobias Jakobi <tjakobi at math.uni-bielefeld.de> [140519 14:19]:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> But even if I don't connect via WiFi at all, just boot and let me
>>>> system
>>>>>> run with serial console connected, after some time I get a kernel
>>>> 'WARNING':
>>>>>> http://www.math.uni-bielefeld.de/~tjakobi/archive/dmesg.1.log
>>>>>
>>>>> BTW, care to update the bugzilla page with the second warning
>>>>> in this log?
>>>>>
>>>>> That's the WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 0 at kernel/timer.c:1147 that's
>>>>> at 238 seconds.
>>>>
>>>> Also, with Santosh's fix applied, can you also try disabling one
>>>> or more of the idle states for cpuidle and see if that helps?
>>>>
>>>> Something like this patch below. If that helps with the WARNING
>>>> above you're getting it narrows down the problem down quite a bit.
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>>
>>>> Tony
>>>>
>>>> --- a/arch/arm/mach-omap2/cpuidle44xx.c
>>>> +++ b/arch/arm/mach-omap2/cpuidle44xx.c
>>>> @@ -44,11 +44,13 @@ static struct idle_statedata omap4_idle_data[] = {
>>>>                  .mpu_state = PWRDM_POWER_RET,
>>>>                  .mpu_logic_state = PWRDM_POWER_RET,
>>>>          },
>>>> +#if 0
>>>>          {
>>>>                  .cpu_state = PWRDM_POWER_OFF,
>>>>                  .mpu_state = PWRDM_POWER_RET,
>>>>                  .mpu_logic_state = PWRDM_POWER_OFF,
>>>>          },
>>>> +#endif
>>>>
>>>
>>> Hmm, I am afraid that will lead to a fault. Safer to set the state_count =
>>> 2 instead.
>>
>> Hmm don't we have state_count = ARRAY_SIZE(omap4_idle_data) or am I
>> missing something?
>>
> I don't think you are missing anything. The change should work.

Oh, yes. Sorry, over-sighted that. I am too used with the other drivers 
assigning the state_count with a number.


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