On Wed, Dec 13, 2017 at 9:13 AM, Priit Laes [off-list ref] wrote:

On Wed, Dec 13, 2017 at 05:09:33PM +0000, Priit Laes wrote:

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On Tue, Dec 12, 2017 at 01:24:52PM -0800, Kevin Hilman wrote:

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On Tue, Dec 12, 2017 at 9:26 AM, Priit Laes [off-list ref] wrote:

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On Mon, Dec 11, 2017 at 02:22:30PM -0800, Kevin Hilman wrote:

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On Sun, Mar 26, 2017 at 10:20 AM, Priit Laes [off-list ref] wrote:

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Convert sun4i-a10.dtsi to new CCU driver.

Signed-off-by: Priit Laes <plaes-q/aMd4JkU83YtjvyW6yDsg@public.gmane.org>

I finally got around to bisecting a mainline boot failure on
sun4i-a10-cubieboard that's been happening for quite a while.  Based
on on kernelci.org, it showed up sometime during the v4.15 merge
window[1].  It bisected down to this commit (in mainline as commit
41193869f2bdb585ce09bfdd16d9482aadd560ad).

When it fails, there is no output on the serial console, so I don't
know exactly how it's failing, just that it no longer boots.

We tried out latest 4.15 with various compilers and it works:
- gcc version 7.1.1 20170622 (Red Hat Cross 7.1.1-3) (GCC) - A10 Gemei G9 tablet
- gcc 7.2.0-debian - A10 Cubieboard

And you can reproduce the bug with gcc5 or gcc6?

Tried following commits on Gemei G9 (A10 tablet):
* 4.15.0-rc3-00037-gd39a01eff9af - latest master
* 4.14.0-rc1-00002-g41193869f2bd - the exact commit, causing the issue.

With the same Linaro toolchain:
(gcc version 5.3.1 20160412 (Linaro GCC 5.3-2016.05))

And I also tried the same dtb and zImage from kernelci page [1] and it works with
that too...

https://storage.kernelci.org/mainline/master/v4.15-rc3/arm/sunxi_defconfig/

Can you share a full boot-log (including all the u-boot output etc.)
so I can see exactly how the kernel is being loaded?    Especially the
u-boot version?

As $SUBJECT patch seems to be changing clocks around, perhaps this is
an issue where some u-boot dependency is uncovered, and older versions
of u-boot don't play well with this change.

Kevin