linaro-dev August 2012

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Booting linux-linaro-2.6.37 on Beagle Board

by Avik Sil

Hi, I tried booting linux-linaro-2.6.37 kernel on my beagle board C4. I executed following: 1. Installed linaro on a 4 GB SD card using linaro-image-tools 0.4.1 with hwpack daily snapshot hwpack_linaro-omap3_20110125-0_armel_supported.tar.gz and linaro-natty-headless-tar-20101202-1.tar.gz. It was booting properly on my BB. 2. Cloned linux-linaro-2.6.37. Changed to source directory 3. make ARCH=arm CROSS_COMPILE=arm-linux-gnueabi- omap2plus_defconfig 4. make ARCH=arm CROSS_COMPILE=arm-linux-gnueabi- menuconfig (enabled EARLY_PRINTK) 5. make ARCH=arm CROSS_COMPILE=arm-linux-gnueabi- uImage 6. make ARCH=arm CROSS_COMPILE=arm-linux-gnueabi- modules 7. make ARCH=arm CROSS_COMPILE=arm-linux-gnueabi- modules_install INSTALL_MOD_PATH=/media/rootfs 8. cp arch/arm/boot/uImage /media/boot; sync Everything went on smoothly. Then I put the SD card on BB and powered it on. I got a kernel panic: http://paste.ubuntu.com/560562 Please help me figuring out the problem. Is it because I didn't create uInitrd? If so, then how to create it for ARM? Regards, Avik

12 years, 4 months

[PATCH v3 00/23] Introduce Xen support on ARM

by Stefano Stabellini

Hi all, this patch series implements Xen support for ARMv7 with virtualization extensions. It allows a Linux guest to boot as dom0 and as domU on Xen on ARM. PV console, disk and network frontends and backends are all working correctly. It has been tested on a Versatile Express Cortex A15 emulator, using the latest Xen ARM developement branch (git://xenbits.xen.org/people/ianc/xen-unstable.git arm-for-4.3) plus the "ARM hypercall ABI: 64 bit ready" patch series (http://marc.info/?l=xen-devel&m=134426267205408), and a simple ad-hoc tool to build guest domains (marc.info/?l=xen-devel&m=134089788016546). The patch marked with [HACK] shouldn't be applied and is part of the series only because it is needed to create domUs. I am also attaching to this email the dts'es that I am currently using for dom0 and domU: vexpress-v2p-ca15-tc1.dts (that includes vexpress-v2m-rs1-rtsm.dtsi) is the dts used for dom0 and it is passed to Linux by Xen, while vexpress-virt.dts is the dts used for other domUs and it is appended in binary form to the guest kernel image. I am not sure where they are supposed to live yet, so I am just attaching them here so that people can actually try out this series if they want to. Comments are very welcome! Changes in v3: - move patches that have been picked up by Konrad at the end of the series; - improve comments; - add a doc to describe the Xen Device Tree format; - do not use xen_ulong_t for multicalls and apic_physbase; - add a patch at the end of the series to use the new __HVC macro; - add missing pvclock-abi.h include to ia64 header files; - do not use an anonymous union in struct xen_add_to_physmap. Changes in v2: - fix up many comments and commit messages; - remove the early_printk patches: rely on the emulated serial for now; - remove the xen_guest_init patch: without any PV early_printk, we don't need any early call to xen_guest_init, we can rely on core_initcall alone; - define an HYPERCALL macro for 5 arguments hypercall wrappers, even if at the moment is unused; - use ldm instead of pop in the hypercall wrappers; - return -ENOSYS rather than -1 from the unimplemented grant_table functions; - remove the pvclock ifdef in the Xen headers; - remove include linux/types.h from xen/interface/xen.h; - replace pr_info with pr_debug in xen_guest_init; - add a new patch to introduce xen_ulong_t and use it top replace all the occurences of unsigned long in the public Xen interface; - explicitely size all the pointers to 64 bit on ARM, so that the hypercall ABI is "64 bit ready"; - clean up xenbus_init; - make pci.o depend on CONFIG_PCI and acpi.o depend on CONFIG_ACPI; - mark Xen guest support on ARM as EXPERIMENTAL; - introduce GRANT_TABLE_PHYSADDR; - remove unneeded initialization of boot_max_nr_grant_frames; - add a new patch to clear IRQ_NOAUTOEN and IRQ_NOREQUEST in events.c; - return -EINVAL from xen_remap_domain_mfn_range if auto_translated_physmap; - retain binary compatibility in xen_add_to_physmap: use a union to introduce foreign_domid. Ian Campbell (1): [HACK] xen/arm: implement xen_remap_domain_mfn_range Stefano Stabellini (24): arm: initial Xen support xen/arm: hypercalls xen/arm: page.h definitions xen/arm: sync_bitops xen/arm: empty implementation of grant_table arch specific functions docs: Xen ARM DT bindings xen/arm: Xen detection and shared_info page mapping xen/arm: Introduce xen_pfn_t for pfn and mfn types xen/arm: Introduce xen_ulong_t for unsigned long xen/arm: compile and run xenbus xen: do not compile manage, balloon, pci, acpi and cpu_hotplug on ARM xen/arm: introduce CONFIG_XEN on ARM xen/arm: get privilege status xen/arm: initialize grant_table on ARM xen/arm: receive Xen events on ARM xen: clear IRQ_NOAUTOEN and IRQ_NOREQUEST xen/arm: implement alloc/free_xenballooned_pages with alloc_pages/kfree xen: allow privcmd for HVM guests xen/arm: compile blkfront and blkback xen/arm: compile netback arm/v2m: initialize arch_timers even if v2m_timer is not present xen/arm: use the __HVC macro xen: missing includes xen: update xen_add_to_physmap interface Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/xen.txt | 22 +++ arch/arm/Kconfig | 10 + arch/arm/Makefile | 1 + arch/arm/include/asm/hypervisor.h | 6 + arch/arm/include/asm/sync_bitops.h | 27 +++ arch/arm/include/asm/xen/events.h | 18 ++ arch/arm/include/asm/xen/hypercall.h | 69 +++++++ arch/arm/include/asm/xen/hypervisor.h | 19 ++ arch/arm/include/asm/xen/interface.h | 73 ++++++++ arch/arm/include/asm/xen/page.h | 82 ++++++++ arch/arm/mach-vexpress/v2m.c | 11 +- arch/arm/xen/Makefile | 1 + arch/arm/xen/enlighten.c | 245 +++++++++++++++++++++++++ arch/arm/xen/grant-table.c | 53 ++++++ arch/arm/xen/hypercall.S | 102 ++++++++++ arch/ia64/include/asm/xen/interface.h | 8 +- arch/x86/include/asm/xen/interface.h | 8 + arch/x86/xen/enlighten.c | 1 + arch/x86/xen/irq.c | 1 + arch/x86/xen/mmu.c | 3 + arch/x86/xen/xen-ops.h | 1 - drivers/block/xen-blkback/blkback.c | 1 + drivers/net/xen-netback/netback.c | 1 + drivers/net/xen-netfront.c | 1 + drivers/tty/hvc/hvc_xen.c | 2 + drivers/xen/Makefile | 11 +- drivers/xen/events.c | 18 ++- drivers/xen/grant-table.c | 1 + drivers/xen/privcmd.c | 20 +- drivers/xen/xenbus/xenbus_comms.c | 2 +- drivers/xen/xenbus/xenbus_probe.c | 62 +++++-- drivers/xen/xenbus/xenbus_probe_frontend.c | 1 + drivers/xen/xenbus/xenbus_xs.c | 1 + drivers/xen/xenfs/super.c | 7 + include/xen/events.h | 2 + include/xen/interface/features.h | 3 + include/xen/interface/grant_table.h | 4 +- include/xen/interface/io/protocols.h | 3 + include/xen/interface/memory.h | 32 ++- include/xen/interface/physdev.h | 2 +- include/xen/interface/platform.h | 4 +- include/xen/interface/version.h | 2 +- include/xen/interface/xen.h | 7 +- include/xen/privcmd.h | 3 +- include/xen/xen.h | 2 +- 45 files changed, 885 insertions(+), 68 deletions(-) A branch based on 3.5-rc7 is available here (the __HVC patch is missing from this branch because it depends on "ARM: opcodes: Facilitate custom opcode injection" http://marc.info/?l=linux-arm-kernel&m=134442896128124): git://xenbits.xen.org/people/sstabellini/linux-pvhvm.git 3.5-rc7-arm-3 Cheers, Stefano

12 years, 6 months

[GIT PULL] bit-LITTLE-MP-v7

by Viresh Kumar

Hi Andrey, Below is pull request for v7 of MP work, you can skip v6-resend pull request that i sent yesterday. Following are the main changes: - Based on v3.6-rc3 - per-task-load-average updated with v3 - applied Tixy's patch from fast-slow-cpu-dt-v1 to task-placement-v1 as they are somewhat related only. And so removed fast-slow-cpu-dt-v1 branch NOTE: Compile tested only -- viresh --------------->8----------------------------- The following changes since commit fea7a08acb13524b47711625eebea40a0ede69a0: Linux 3.6-rc3 (2012-08-22 13:29:06 -0700) are available in the git repository at: git://git.linaro.org/arm/big.LITTLE/mp.git big-LITTLE-MP-v7 for you to fetch changes up to 549b2d49de89f9454a933a32efb5825a076efd42: Merge branches 'per-cpu-thread-hotplug-v3-fixed', 'task-placement-v1', 'cpu-hotplug-get_online_cpus-v1', 'arm-asymmetric-support-v3-v3.6-rc1' and 'config-fragments' into big-LITTLE-MP-v7 (2012-08-24 09:24:14 +0530) ---------------------------------------------------------------- Ben Segall (1): sched: maintain per-rq runnable averages Jon Medhurst (6): configs: Initial core configs configs: Make CONFIG_MODULES part of linaro-base Merge branch 'config-core-3.4' into config-core-tracking configs: Replace CONFIG_PERF_COUNTERS with CONFIG_PERF_EVENTS configs: android: Enable FB_EARLYSUSPEND configs: android: Enable CONFIG_INPUT_UINPUT to get aidb working Jon Medhurst (Tixy) (1): sched: Use device-tree to provide fast/slow CPU list for HMP Morten Rasmussen (6): sched: Add ftrace events for entity load-tracking sched: entity load-tracking load_avg_ratio sched: load-tracking driven wakeup migration for HMP platforms sched: Forced migration of high load task on HMP platforms sched: Add HMP forced task migration ftrace event sched: Add missing cpus_allowed checks to HMP scheduler Paul E. McKenney (2): rcu: Use smp_hotplug_thread facility for RCUs per-CPU kthread hotplug: Fix UP bug in smpboot hotplug code Paul Turner (15): sched: track the runnable average on a per-task entitiy basis sched: aggregate load contributed by task entities on parenting cfs_rq sched: maintain the load contribution of blocked entities sched: add an rq migration call-back to sched_class sched: account for blocked load waking back up sched: aggregate total task_group load sched: compute load contribution by a group entity sched: normalize tg load contributions against runnable time sched: maintain runnable averages across throttled periods sched: replace update_shares weight distribution with per-entity computation sched: refactor update_shares_cpu() -> update_blocked_avgs() sched: update_cfs_shares at period edge sched: make __update_entity_runnable_avg() fast sched: implement usage tracking sched: introduce temporary FAIR_GROUP_SCHED dependency for load-tracking Ricardo Salveti de Araujo (8): configs: moving previous ubuntu.conf as ubuntu-minimal and creating a full ubuntu one configs: ubuntu: be compatible with the enforce script configs: ubuntu: disabling CODA_FS, seems to be broken atm configs: ubuntu: disabling CGROUPS as default Merge branch 'config-core-3.4' into config-core-tracking configs: ubuntu: updating configs for 3.5 configs: ubuntu: disabling CONFIG_MTD_NAND_NANDSIM=m, breaking build config: ubuntu: ATH6KL should be platform dependent Silas Boyd-Wickizer (4): Use get_online_cpus to avoid races involving CPU hotplug Use get_online_cpus to avoid races involving CPU hotplug Use get_online_cpus to avoid races involving CPU hotplug Use get_online_cpus to avoid races involving CPU hotplug Thomas Gleixner (6): rcu: Yield simpler kthread: Implement park/unpark facility smpboot: Provide infrastructure for percpu hotplug threads softirq: Use hotplug thread infrastructure watchdog: Use hotplug thread infrastructure infiniband: ehca: Use hotplug thread infrastructure Vincent Guittot (1): sched: cpu_power: enable ARCH_POWER Viresh Kumar (3): configs: Add config fragments for big LITTLE MP linaro/configs: Update big LITTLE MP fragment for task placement work Merge branches 'per-cpu-thread-hotplug-v3-fixed', 'task-placement-v1', 'cpu-hotplug-get_online_cpus-v1', 'arm-asymmetric-support-v3-v3.6-rc1' and 'config-fragments' into big-LITTLE-MP-v7 arch/arm/Kconfig | 29 + arch/arm/kernel/topology.c | 69 ++ arch/x86/kernel/cpuid.c | 5 + arch/x86/kernel/msr.c | 5 + drivers/hwmon/coretemp.c | 5 + drivers/hwmon/via-cputemp.c | 5 + drivers/infiniband/hw/ehca/ehca_irq.c | 253 ++-- drivers/infiniband/hw/ehca/ehca_irq.h | 6 +- include/linux/kthread.h | 11 +- include/linux/sched.h | 24 + include/linux/smpboot.h | 43 + include/trace/events/sched.h | 151 +++ kernel/Makefile | 3 +- kernel/cpu.c | 10 +- kernel/kthread.c | 185 ++- kernel/rcutree.c | 12 +- kernel/rcutree.h | 15 +- kernel/rcutree_plugin.h | 403 ++----- kernel/rcutree_trace.c | 3 +- kernel/sched/core.c | 11 + kernel/sched/debug.c | 39 +- kernel/sched/fair.c | 1111 ++++++++++++++--- kernel/sched/features.h | 2 +- kernel/sched/sched.h | 60 +- kernel/smpboot.c | 233 ++++ kernel/smpboot.h | 4 + kernel/softirq.c | 108 +- kernel/watchdog.c | 263 ++-- linaro/configs/android.conf | 33 + linaro/configs/big-LITTLE-MP.conf | 9 + linaro/configs/linaro-base.conf | 84 ++ linaro/configs/ubuntu-minimal.conf | 24 + linaro/configs/ubuntu.conf | 2133 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 33 files changed, 4355 insertions(+), 996 deletions(-) create mode 100644 include/linux/smpboot.h create mode 100644 linaro/configs/android.conf create mode 100644 linaro/configs/big-LITTLE-MP.conf create mode 100644 linaro/configs/linaro-base.conf create mode 100644 linaro/configs/ubuntu-minimal.conf create mode 100644 linaro/configs/ubuntu.conf

12 years, 6 months

ARM A9 oprofile

by Dmitry Antipov

Hello Ming, could you please give some pointers to observe an overall status of oprofile support on ARM A9 cores? IIUC, now it doesn't work without oprofile.timer=1 kernel option, at least for Linus' tree; searching gives a lot of discussion/patches fragments and similar stuff, but I was unable to find a complete patch/git tree/whatever else to try. Thanks in advance, Dmitry

12 years, 7 months

Using ARM Energy probe and PandaBoard

by Dechesne, Nicolas

hi there, at HK connect i learned about the ARM energy probe ( http://www.arm.com/about/newsroom/arm-enables-energy-aware-coding-with-the-…). Since that we ordered some probes, and I was wondering if someone is working in linaro on enabling power measurements? I would be interested in DS5 or even command line tools to retrieve information, ideally from Panda... thx

12 years, 8 months

llct "stable" trees

by Andy Green

Hi - We've been getting some good mileage from the llct-based tilt-3.4 history tree the last months. However a couple of points have been raised by TI which really boil down to being about the deal with llct post-release. We know that it goes on mutating and tracking as it should, but the release-specific version, like "linux-linaro-3.4" just sits there afaik. The points raised were: 1) Can we have linux stable point release content in tilt-3.4? Rather than my doing it, isn't it better to add it to llc-3.4 and merge it on the lt history tree periodically? That way every lt can get them from one place. 2) What's the deal with things that were the latest and greatest at that time, ie, the best "CMA" or whatever series was in tracking, but after it got copied out to be linux-linaro-core-3.4, horrible bugs were fixed in linux-linaro-tracking? What's happening is that TI are sticking with these releases for a fair time as the basis for their release to customers. I can see there's tension between tracking-style fix it for the future, and backport to old and crusty things, there's also issue of testing, but there must be some cases where this makes some sense. Again people looking after the feature tree for llct are best placed to make those calls about, "hm, that looks like it should maybe also go on the last couple of llc release trees". What do you think about this? -Andy -- Andy Green | TI Landing Team Leader Linaro.org │ Open source software for ARM SoCs | Follow Linaro http://facebook.com/pages/Linaro/155974581091106 - http://twitter.com/#!/linaroorg - http://linaro.org/linaro-blog

12 years, 8 months

[PATCH v4 0/5] 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. It also removes the broken power estimation of x86. Modification since v3: - Add comments - Add optimization for SMP system - Ensure that capacity of a CPU will be at most 1 Modification since v2: - set_power_scale function becomes static - Rework loop in update_siblings_masks - Remove useless code in parse_dt_topology Modification since v1: - Add and update explanation about the use of the table and the range of the value - Remove the use of NR_CPUS and use nr_cpu_ids instead - Remove broken power estimation of x86 Peter Zijlstra (1): sched, x86: Remove broken power estimation 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/kernel/topology.c | 239 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---- arch/x86/kernel/cpu/Makefile | 2 +- arch/x86/kernel/cpu/sched.c | 55 ---------- kernel/sched/features.h | 2 +- 4 files changed, 219 insertions(+), 79 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/sched.c -- 1.7.9.5

12 years, 8 months

[PATCH] acpi : remove power from acpi_processor_cx structure

by Daniel Lezcano

Remove the power field as it is not used. Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano(a)linaro.org> Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk(a)oracle.com> --- drivers/acpi/processor_idle.c | 2 -- drivers/xen/xen-acpi-processor.c | 1 - include/acpi/processor.h | 1 - 3 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/acpi/processor_idle.c b/drivers/acpi/processor_idle.c index e589c19..90582fb 100644 --- a/drivers/acpi/processor_idle.c +++ b/drivers/acpi/processor_idle.c @@ -483,8 +483,6 @@ static int acpi_processor_get_power_info_cst(struct acpi_processor *pr) if (obj->type != ACPI_TYPE_INTEGER) continue; - cx.power = obj->integer.value; - current_count++; memcpy(&(pr->power.states[current_count]), &cx, sizeof(cx)); diff --git a/drivers/xen/xen-acpi-processor.c b/drivers/xen/xen-acpi-processor.c index 7ff2569..7ef9c1d 100644 --- a/drivers/xen/xen-acpi-processor.c +++ b/drivers/xen/xen-acpi-processor.c @@ -98,7 +98,6 @@ static int push_cxx_to_hypervisor(struct acpi_processor *_pr) dst_cx->type = cx->type; dst_cx->latency = cx->latency; - dst_cx->power = cx->power; dst_cx->dpcnt = 0; set_xen_guest_handle(dst_cx->dp, NULL); diff --git a/include/acpi/processor.h b/include/acpi/processor.h index 64ec644..db427fa 100644 --- a/include/acpi/processor.h +++ b/include/acpi/processor.h @@ -59,7 +59,6 @@ struct acpi_processor_cx { u8 entry_method; u8 index; u32 latency; - u32 power; u8 bm_sts_skip; char desc[ACPI_CX_DESC_LEN]; }; -- 1.7.5.4

12 years, 8 months

[PATCH 0/2] Android fixes w.r.t. 3.6 kernel

by Tushar Behera

Required for android-3.6 tree. Tushar Behera (2): netfilter: xt_quota2: Move away from NLMSG_PUT() netfilter: xt_quota2: Update parameter list in netlink_kernel_create net/netfilter/xt_quota2.c | 25 ++++++++++++++++--------- 1 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) -- 1.7.4.1

12 years, 8 months

[PATCH 0/5][RFC] Use per cpuidle_device states

by Daniel Lezcano

Since commit 46bcfad7a819bd17ac4e831b04405152d59784ab, cpuidle: Single/Global registration of idle states we have a single registration for the cpuidle states which makes sense. But now two new architectures are coming: tegra3 and big.LITTLE. These architectures have different cpus with different caracteristics for power saving. High load => powerfull processors, idle => small processors. That implies different cpu latencies. This patchset present a simple way to keep the current behavior as introduced by Deepthi without breaking the drivers and add the possibility to specify a per cpu states. Daniel Lezcano (5): acpi : move the acpi_idle_driver variable declaration acpi : move cpuidle_device field out of the acpi_processor_power structure cpuidle : add a pointer for cpuidle_state in the cpuidle_device cpuidle : use per cpuidle device cpu states cpuidle : add cpuidle_register_states function drivers/acpi/processor_driver.c | 2 +- drivers/acpi/processor_idle.c | 25 ++++++++++++++++++------- drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle.c | 24 +++++++++++++++++++++--- drivers/cpuidle/governors/ladder.c | 18 +++++++++--------- drivers/cpuidle/governors/menu.c | 8 ++++---- drivers/cpuidle/sysfs.c | 3 +-- include/acpi/processor.h | 3 --- include/linux/cpuidle.h | 11 ++++++++--- 8 files changed, 62 insertions(+), 32 deletions(-) -- 1.7.5.4

12 years, 8 months

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