marvell_cesa fails to register on kirkwood (88F6282)

Boris Brezillon boris.brezillon at free-electrons.com
Fri Feb 5 08:28:56 PST 2016


On Fri, 5 Feb 2016 17:01:45 +0100
JM <fijam at archlinux.us> wrote:

> On Fri, Feb 5, 2016 at 4:45 PM, Gregory CLEMENT
> <gregory.clement at free-electrons.com> wrote:
> > Hi JM,
> >
> >  On ven., févr. 05 2016, JM <fijam at archlinux.us> wrote:
> >
> >> On Fri, Feb 5, 2016 at 11:29 AM, Boris Brezillon
> >> <boris.brezillon at free-electrons.com> wrote:
> >>> Jan, Andrew
> >>>
> >>> On Fri, 5 Feb 2016 10:02:46 +0100
> >>> Andrew Lunn <andrew at lunn.ch> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> On Fri, Feb 05, 2016 at 06:01:18AM +0100, JM wrote:
> >>>> > Hi,
> >>>> >
> >>>> > I am testing marvell_cesa on a kirkwood device (QNAP TS-212p, Marvell
> >>>> > Kirkwood 88F6282, dts: http://pastebin.com/Gk95KFHf ).
> >>>> > As of kernel 4.4 (4.4.0-trunk-kirkwood #1 Debian 4.4-1~exp1) it fails
> >>>> > in the following way:
> >>>> >
> >>>> > modprobe marvell_cesa allhwsupport=1
> >>>> > dmesg | tail -n 1
> >>>> > [ 1057.855091] marvell-cesa: probe of f1030000.crypto failed with error -12
> >>>> >
> >>>> > or:
> >>>> >
> >>>> > modprobe marvell_cesa
> >>>> > dmesg | tail -n 1
> >>>> > [ 9178.399357] marvell-cesa: probe of f1030000.crypto failed with error -524
> >>>> >
> >>>> > With kernel 4.3 it would fail with error -22 on that hardware. There
> >>>> > are scattered reports from other users experiencing the same issue
> >>>> > (1,2,3)
> >>>> >
> >>>> > I wonder if this is a result of an invalid definition of the
> >>>> > crypto-sram in the dts of this SoC, or perhaps some other problem
> >>>> > (PEBKAC included).
> >>>>
> >>>> Hi Jan
> >>>>
> >>>> Do you have SRAM enabled in your kernel configuration. The
> >>>> mvebu_v5_defconfig does not have it, which is a bug really.
> >>>
> >>> Hm, the CRYPTO_DEV_MARVELL_CESA option selects the SRAM one [1].
> >>> Anyway, I also think this error is related to the SRAM (not sure why the
> >>> driver is not able to get the SRAM though).
> >>>
> >>> Best Regards,
> >>>
> >>> Boris
> >>>
> >>> [1]http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/drivers/crypto/Kconfig#L168
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> --
> >>> Boris Brezillon, Free Electrons
> >>> Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
> >>> http://free-electrons.com
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> Thanks for getting back to me. Indeed, CONFIG_SRAM is enabled, I put
> >> the complete .config here: http://pastebin.com/40eKMJqE
> >>
> >> If there is anything I can do to help squish this bug, please let me
> >> know.
> >
> > How do you get your dts?
> > it seems that you generated it from your dtb (or from /proc).
> >
> > I tried to do the same from arch/arm/boot/dts/kirkwood-ts219-6282.dtb,
> > but the resulting dts is too different for an easy comparison.
> >
> > Could you also provide your dtb, maybe by using the same dtc with the
> > option -s I will manage to get the something easier to compare.
> >
> > Gregory
> >
> >
> >>
> >> Best regards,
> >> Jan
> >>
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> >
> > --
> > Gregory Clement, Free Electrons
> > Kernel, drivers, real-time and embedded Linux
> > development, consulting, training and support.
> > http://free-electrons.com
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Yes, I simply used dtc -I fs /proc/device-tree to obtain the dts.
> 
> Here is the relevant .dtb file : http://heap.ovh/files/kirkwood-ts219-6282.dtb

Can you try to apply this patch [1], and let me know where it fails?

[1]http://code.bulix.org/qnuq8m-90700




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