[crypto] [marvell-cesa] Driver hangs on Armada 385 device

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Fri Aug 19 05:12:51 PDT 2016


Hello,

I'm adding Romain Perier in Cc, since he is actively working on the
CESA driver.

On Fri, 19 Aug 2016 14:54:50 +0300, radioconfusion at gmail.com wrote:

> > On Tue, 05 Jul 2016 11:46:30 +0300, radioconfusion at gmail.com wrote:  
> 
> > My Armada 385 -device hangs when using marvell-cesa -driver.
> > I'm using Linux 4.4.10 and armada-385-db-ap.dts.
> > I have also tried with the driver version of Linux 4.7-rc3.
> > 
> > Please see https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=120111 for details.  
> 
> I just tested the marvell-cesa with Linux 4.8-rc2 and Armada 385.
> There is still the same hanging issue (originally described on
> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=120111).
> 
> Please let me ask which model of Armada board has been verified to work with the
> marvell-cesa driver?

The Armada 388 GP board.

> I'm using a custom board based on 88F6820. Is this SoC
> model fully supported by the driver? Do you know if there is some necessary
> hardware initializations which must be done on u-boot? I'm using latest Marvell
> patch set (2015_T1.0p16) on u-boot.
> 
> My test case have been:
> # cryptsetup benchmark --cipher aes-cbc
> 
> and that always freezes the board.

Romain, can you test the same scenario, and see if you can reproduce
the hang or not?

Thanks,

Thomas
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Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
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