Re: next-20130627 breaks i.MX6 sabre sd UART console

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On 06/28, Stephen Boyd wrote:
> On 06/28/13 09:58, Stehle Vincent-B46079 wrote:
> > From: linux-next-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:linux-next-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Stephen Boyd
> > (..)
> >> Do you have debug_ll support to get some serial logs?
> > Hi,
> >
> > Thanks for your concern on the matter. You are right, there is debug_ll support for i.MX6. If I activate it for next-20130628 imx_v6_v7_defconfig, that only "buys" me one additional line, though:
> >
> >   Uncompressing Linux... done, booting the kernel.
> 
> Oh and also add earlyprintk to the command line and enable the
> earlyprintk config. It should buy you some more lines.
> 
> >
> >> Also could you try booting with maxcpus=1 on the kernel commandline?
> > Good idea; it goes much further with this one (until it crashes in wm8962_probe(), which is as far as I go when I revert 064706514ec3fea740c2656e03c4f01f6a551ac4).
> 
> Interesting. Thanks for the test.
> 
> >
> >> And it would be useful to have the output of /proc/timer_list if you have it from a working device.
> > Sure; I pasted it below.
> 
> Is this an SMP capable device? What devicetree blob are you using?
> 
> >
> >> I believe you have a per-cpu TWD timer and a global imx-gpt?
> > I think you are right from what I see in /proc/interrupts.
> 
> Well oddly I don't see any twd in the timer list but that may be because
> you're not running more than one CPU? It would be good to get the output
> when you run SMP if it has that support.
> 

I tried to recreate this probelm an an smp vexpress qemu and I
couldn't do it. This is with next-20130628. If you can get
debug_ll and earlyprinkt working it would be useful if you can
apply the attached patch and give back the logs. I'm confused how
the dummy timers are causing problems.

diff --git a/kernel/time/tick-broadcast.c b/kernel/time/tick-broadcast.c
index 9d96a54..3795c9c 100644
--- a/kernel/time/tick-broadcast.c
+++ b/kernel/time/tick-broadcast.c
@@ -92,6 +92,8 @@ void tick_install_broadcast_device(struct clock_event_device *dev)
 	if (!try_module_get(dev->owner))
 		return;
 
+	pr_info("%s is now the broadcast\n", dev->name);
+
 	clockevents_exchange_device(cur, dev);
 	if (cur)
 		cur->event_handler = clockevents_handle_noop;
diff --git a/kernel/time/tick-common.c b/kernel/time/tick-common.c
index edd45f6..24548aa 100644
--- a/kernel/time/tick-common.c
+++ b/kernel/time/tick-common.c
@@ -275,6 +275,8 @@ void tick_check_new_device(struct clock_event_device *newdev)
 	struct tick_device *td;
 	int cpu;
 
+	pr_info("Checking %s\n", newdev->name);
+
 	cpu = smp_processor_id();
 	if (!cpumask_test_cpu(cpu, newdev->cpumask))
 		goto out_bc;
@@ -286,10 +288,14 @@ void tick_check_new_device(struct clock_event_device *newdev)
 	if (!tick_check_percpu(curdev, newdev, cpu))
 		goto out_bc;
 
+	pr_info("%d: %s is per-cpu\n", cpu, newdev->name);
+
 	/* Preference decision */
 	if (!tick_check_preferred(curdev, newdev))
 		goto out_bc;
 
+	pr_info("%d: %s is preferred\n", cpu, newdev->name);
+
 	if (!try_module_get(newdev->owner))
 		return;
 
@@ -312,6 +318,7 @@ out_bc:
 	/*
 	 * Can the new device be used as a broadcast device ?
 	 */
+	pr_info("%d: %s is trying broadcast\n", cpu, newdev->name);
 	tick_install_broadcast_device(newdev);
 }
 

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