linaro-dev June 2012

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[RFC 1/4] cpuidle: define the enter function in the driver structure

by Daniel Lezcano

We have the state index passed as parameter to the 'enter' function. Most of the drivers assign their 'enter' functions several times in the cpuidle_state structure, as we have the index, we can delegate to the driver to handle their own callback array. That will have the benefit of removing multiple lines of code in the different drivers. In order to smoothly modify the driver, the 'enter' function are in the driver structure and in the cpuidle state structure. That will let the time to modify the different drivers one by one. So the 'cpuidle_enter' function checks if the 'enter' callback is assigned in the driver structure and use it, otherwise it invokes the 'enter' assigned to the cpuidle_state. Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano(a)linaro.org> --- drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle.c | 4 +++- include/linux/cpuidle.h | 1 + 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle.c b/drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle.c index d90519c..155dee7 100644 --- a/drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle.c +++ b/drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle.c @@ -46,7 +46,9 @@ static inline int cpuidle_enter(struct cpuidle_device *dev, struct cpuidle_driver *drv, int index) { struct cpuidle_state *target_state = &drv->states[index]; - return target_state->enter(dev, drv, index); + + return drv->enter(dev, drv, index) ? drv->enter(dev, drv, index) : + target_state->enter(dev, drv, index); } static inline int cpuidle_enter_tk(struct cpuidle_device *dev, diff --git a/include/linux/cpuidle.h b/include/linux/cpuidle.h index 6c26a3d..d82e169 100644 --- a/include/linux/cpuidle.h +++ b/include/linux/cpuidle.h @@ -130,6 +130,7 @@ struct cpuidle_driver { struct cpuidle_state states[CPUIDLE_STATE_MAX]; int state_count; int safe_state_index; + int (*enter)(struct cpuidle_device *, struct cpuidle_driver *, int); }; #ifdef CONFIG_CPU_IDLE -- 1.7.5.4

12 years, 6 months

[RFC 0/4] ARM: topology: set the capacity of each cores for big.LITTLE

by Vincent Guittot

This patchset creates an arch_scale_freq_power function for ARM, which is used to set the relative capacity of each core of a big.LITTLE system. Vincent Guittot (4): ARM: topology: Add arch_scale_freq_power function ARM: topology: factorize the update of sibling masks ARM: topology: Update cpu_power according to DT information sched: cpu_power: enable ARCH_POWER arch/arm/include/asm/topology.h | 2 + arch/arm/kernel/topology.c | 203 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---- kernel/sched/features.h | 2 +- 3 files changed, 185 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-) -- 1.7.9.5

12 years, 6 months

Kernel not booting with Linaro GCC?

by Michael Hope

There's an interaction between Linaro GCC or FSF GCC 4.7 and Linux kernels before 3.2 which causes the kernel to halt straight after showing 'Uncompressing Linux'. The question comes up every couple of months so I've blogged about it: http://seabright.co.nz/2012/06/11/kernel-not-booting-with-linaro-gcc/ """ Is your ARM Linux kernel not booting when building with Linaro GCC or FSF GCC 4.7? Does it halt shortly after showing ‘Uncompressing Linux’? You may have run into an interaction between older kernels and the new unaligned access support in GCC. This affects Linaro GCC from 4.6-2011.11 onwards, GCC from 4.7.0 on, and kernels earlier than 3.2 including the Galaxy Nexus Icecream Sandwich release. The work-around is to add -mno-unaligned-access to KBUILD_CFLAGS in the top level kernel Makefile or to backport 8428e84d42179c2a00f5f6450866e70d802d1d05 from the current kernel tree. ARMv6K and later processors have hardware support for doing unaligned loads and stores which is faster than the old byte-by-byte/recombine that was done in software. Later versions of GCC use this to do quicker loads when working on known unaligned data, such as when working on a protocol buffer or a packed structure. The CPU can be configured to trap on unaligned access. This trap is off at reset, but pre 3.2 kernels turn this on during the initial boot. An interaction between -fconserve-stack and -munaligned-access on a char buffer lead to an unaligned access, which causes a trap, which causes the kernel to halt. This does not affect userspace programs as they run with the trap turned off. """ -- Michael

12 years, 6 months

[REMINDER] Linaro 12.06 dates

by David Zinman

Release Dates and Deliveries ======================== Toolchain June 14 WG/LT's June 21 12.06 RC's June 25 12.06 Release June 28 -- David Zinman Linaro Release Manager | Project Manager Linaro.org | Open source software for ARM SoCs

12 years, 6 months

RFC: Initial Power and Voltage domain support for powerdebug

by eric van tassell

+ all written in usermode + no new proc files + configuration based on text file so easy to adapt to the non-omap proletarians + gui alignment still needs work + sample config files for PD and VDD in the patch but lots of registers and domains still need to be added + same code does power and voltage domains + diff attached + screenshots attached -- - evt (Eric van Tassell) twitter: evt_texelsoft linked-in: linkedin.com/in/evttxl

12 years, 6 months

Linaro Android Platform Team Agenda Posted

by Zach Pfeffer

Hey yall, Posted the agenda for the Linaro Android Platform team meeting. https://wiki.linaro.org/Platform/Android/Meetings/2012-06-13 Feel free to add to it. If you're a Linaro Android team member, please fill in your status before the meeting. See ya in #linaro-meeting @ 14:00 UTC on irc.freenode.net tomorrow (Jun 13th) or later today, depending on where you are. :) -- Zach Pfeffer Android Platform Team Lead, Linaro Platform Teams Linaro.org | Open source software for ARM SoCs Follow Linaro: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Linaro http://twitter.com/#!/linaroorg - http://www.linaro.org/linaro-blog

12 years, 6 months

[PATCH] perf report: fix event name reporting

by Dmitry Antipov

Use trace_find_event to find event name before looking through /sys files. This helps 'perf report' to show real event names instead of 'unknown:unknown' when processing perf.data recorded on another machine. Signed-off-by: Dmitry Antipov <dmitry.antipov(a)linaro.org> --- tools/perf/builtin-report.c | 4 +++- 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-report.c b/tools/perf/builtin-report.c index 8c767c6..a6fd309 100644 --- a/tools/perf/builtin-report.c +++ b/tools/perf/builtin-report.c @@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ #include "util/evlist.h" #include "util/evsel.h" #include "util/header.h" +#include "util/trace-event.h" #include "util/session.h" #include "util/tool.h" @@ -314,7 +315,8 @@ static int perf_evlist__tty_browse_hists(struct perf_evlist *evlist, list_for_each_entry(pos, &evlist->entries, node) { struct hists *hists = &pos->hists; - const char *evname = event_name(pos); + struct event_format *event = trace_find_event(pos->attr.config); + const char *evname = event ? event->name : event_name(pos); hists__fprintf_nr_sample_events(hists, evname, stdout); hists__fprintf(hists, NULL, false, true, 0, 0, stdout); -- 1.7.7.6

12 years, 6 months

Linaro rootfs / kernel version combination

by Suresh Kumar SHUKLA

Hi all, I need some help in choosing right version of rootfs for my environment. I have a development board with ST SoC with Cortex-A9 dual core and VFPv3-D16. Kernel version available to me is 2.6.37. I am using Debian 6 arm-hf port, but would like to try Linaro rootfs. 1. What is the version of linaro filesytem I should pick (optimum for -mfpu=vfp and -mfloat-abi=hard) ? 2. I don't have a hwpack, is it possible to use vexpress or similar rootfs. Regards, Suresh

12 years, 6 months

Git repo for kernel config fragments created

by Jon Medhurst (Tixy)

I have created an git repo for the kernel config fragments we produced a while ago, this is at git://git.linaro.org/kernel/configs.git The config-core-tracking branch in this repo is intended to be added to the linux-linaro-core-tracking branch and so be available in all Linaro kernels. This currently provides three config fragment files: linaro/configs/linaro-base.conf Config options common to all Linaro kernels linaro/configs/ubuntu.conf Config options for all Ubuntu kernels linaro/configs/android.conf Config options for all Android kernels In addition to these, a board specific config fragment is required to produce a final kernel config. This may be made available by a Landing Team's kernel tree (I have done this for vexpress [1]) or; for experimental purposes, or to support legacy platforms, I have a separate config-boards-tracking branch of the new configs.git. (Currently this contains the Origen and iMX5 fragments produced a while ago.) To create an Ubuntu kernel config from these fragments for a device called $BOARD, you need to run a command like: ARCH=arm scripts/kconfig/merge_config.sh \ linaro/configs/linaro-base.conf linaro/configs/ubuntu.conf \ linaro/configs/$BOARD.conf For Android, s/ubuntu/android/ in the above. At some point soonish, I hope to come up with a mechanism whereby Android builds have the option to dynamically generate their kernel config as above. John Rigby is planning on adding a similar option to the Ubuntu packaging jobs. Hopefully this work will enable: - easier management of system wide config settings required by working group output or Linaro policy - place board specific configuration in the hands of the people maintaining that boards kernel - more consistent kernel builds, so teams can test in the same environment as Linaro's final releases I intend to maintain git://git.linaro.org/kernel/configs.git and will keep separate non 'tracking' branches for older kernel versions (I currently have branches for 3.4). -- Tixy [1] http://git.linaro.org/gitweb?p=landing-teams/working/arm/kernel.git;a=short…

12 years, 6 months

android-3.4 or android-3.4-compat

by John Stultz

Hey Andrey, Zach, So I'm back from my vacation, and have found that the Android team has released a -compat tree for their 3.4 kernel. Basically this tree re-adds some items like earlysuspend and classic wakelocks in order to provide better compatibility with old (and by old, I really mean current as far as we see - so ICS and earlier) Android userland. Since we're still shipping ICS, and have no access to whatever the Android 5.0 userland will be, it seems merging in the -compat tree would make sense. However, I know Tixy and others have already tried to address the lack of earlysuspend in the android-3.3+ kernels, so I wanted to double check that this wouldn't cause additional pain (since those adjustments might need to be reverted). So I just wanted to check first with folks to make sure there are no objections to merging in the -compat changes, and that the timing of merging in these changes isn't problematic (I can happily hold off till this months release is done, so we don't risk any last minute gotchas). thanks -john

12 years, 6 months

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