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[PATCH] ARM: exynos_defconfig: disable CONFIG_EXYNOS5420_MCPM; not stable

From: kgene@kernel.org (Kukjin Kim)
Date: 2014-11-25 01:50:53
Also in: linux-samsung-soc

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Olof Johansson wrote:
On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 5:37 PM, Olof Johansson [off-list ref] wrote:
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On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 5:35 PM, Kevin Hilman [off-list ref] wrote:
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On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 4:25 PM, Olof Johansson [off-list ref] wrote:
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On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 11:51 AM, Kevin Hilman [off-list ref] wrote:
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Kukjin,

On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 11:35 AM, Kevin Hilman [off-list ref] wrote:
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Kukjin Kim [off-list ref] writes:
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Kevin Hilman wrote:
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From: Kevin Hilman <redacted>

The option CONFIG_EXYNOS5420_MCPM is causing imprecise external aborts
during boot testing, causing various userspace startup failures.

Disable until it has gotten more testing.

Cc: Kukjin Kim <redacted>,
Cc: Javier Martinez Canillas <redacted>,
Cc: Sachin Kamat <redacted>,
Cc: Doug Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>,
Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <redacted>,
Cc: Krzysztof Kozlowski <redacted>,
Cc: Tushar Behera <redacted>,
Cc: stable at vger.kernel.org # v3.17+
Signed-off-by: Kevin Hilman <redacted>
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This has been reported by a few people[1], but not investigated or fixed, so it's
time to disable this feature until it can be fixed.
Hi Kevin,

Yeah I agree with your opinion.

But as you can see my tree, I've queued regarding mcpm patches for 3.19 will
be shown in -next in this weekend.
Which of the recently queued patches are expected to address the
imprecise abort issue?  I'd be happy to test them out.
Exynos5 MCPM is still broken in linux-next and still causing an imprecise abort.

What is the status of $SUBJECT patch?
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Anyway let me apply this into -fixes and
then let's enable after test its functionality in -next in a couple of days.
Yes, I think this needs to be applied until these aborts are understood
and fixed.
Is anyone at Samsung actually looking into these MCPM issues?
Hi Kevin,

What hardware are you having problems with? 5420 or 5422/5800?
Yes.  :)

exynos5420-arndale-octa:
http://storage.armcloud.us/kernel-ci/mainline/v3.18-rc6/arm-exynos_defconfig/boot-exynos5420-
arndale-octa.html
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exynos5422-odroid-xu3:
http://storage.armcloud.us/kernel-ci/mainline/v3.18-rc6/arm-exynos_defconfig/boot-exynos5422-
odroid-xu3.html
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My boot tests seem to pass fine because I have such a minimal
userspace, but Tyler Baker reported that with a "real" userspace, he
can't boot to a shell:

  http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2014-September/286203.html
Hmm...his report was in Sep...I think it should be fine with current -next?

To be honest, since I don't have the exynos5420 arndale, chromebook...but smdk
which has different bootloader, I couldn't test it...I'll try to make a test
farm like you guys...
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I'm not surprised that 5420 has issues, but I have not seen any
Sorry.
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external aborts on neither Chromebook that I have in my farm.

Sounds like the secondary cpus should be disabled on those device
trees instead, doesn't it?
Er, cluster, not cpus.
- Kukjin
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