[meta-freescale] [meta-fsl-arm] Help debugging kernel lockup

Thu Jun 18 11:48:33 PDT 2015

On 2015-06-17 10:39, Gary Thomas wrote:
> I know this is a bit off-topic, but I'm hoping someone might
> have a clue how to help.
>
> I have an LS1021 system that has become unstable - it will
> lock up (reliably) 5 minutes after boot up, +/- a few seconds.
> I enabled kernel debugging for this and got this info:
>
> BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 22s! [swapper/0:0]
> Modules linked in:
> irq event stamp: 542337
> hardirqs last  enabled at (542336): [<80021b20>] __do_softirq+0xf4/0x29c
> hardirqs last disabled at (542337): [<80012034>] __irq_svc+0x34/0x58
> softirqs last  enabled at (542334): [<800216b0>] _local_bh_enable+0x14/0x18
> softirqs last disabled at (542335): [<80021d94>] do_softirq+0x54/0x78
>
> CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 3.12.19-rt30-00644-gc847f76-dirty #4
> task: 808bc0a8 ti: 808b0000 task.ti: 808b0000
> PC is at __do_softirq+0xf8/0x29c
> LR is at trace_hardirqs_on_caller+0x170/0x23c
> pc : [<80021b24>]    lr : [<8006a20c>]    psr: 200c0113
> sp : 808b1e68  ip : 808b1e38  fp : 808b1eac
> r10: 00200000  r9 : 410fc075  r8 : 808b0028
> r7 : 808b1f54  r6 : 80021d94  r5 : 00000082  r4 : 808b0000
> r3 : 808bc0a8  r2 : 00000000  r1 : 000e38ed  r0 : 00000001
> Flags: nzCv  IRQs on  FIQs on  Mode SVC_32  ISA ARM  Segment kernel
> Control: 30c53c7d  Table: be464cc0  DAC: fffffffd
> CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 3.12.19-rt30-00644-gc847f76-dirty #4
> Backtrace:
> [<800112c8>] (dump_backtrace+0x0/0x100) from [<80011588>] (show_stack+0x18/0x1c)
>   r6:0000013c r5:00000000 r4:808b0028 r3:00200000
> [<80011570>] (show_stack+0x0/0x1c) from [<8056abb0>] (dump_stack+0x90/0xbc)
> [<8056ab20>] (dump_stack+0x0/0xbc) from [<8000f0f4>] (show_regs+0x24/0x2c)
>   r5:808b8be0 r4:808b1e20
> [<8000f0d0>] (show_regs+0x0/0x2c) from [<8007abac>] (watchdog_timer_fn+0x120/0x174)
>   r4:808b0000 r3:808bc0a8
> [<8007aa8c>] (watchdog_timer_fn+0x0/0x174) from [<8003dca4>] (__run_hrtimer.isra.25+0x58/0xd0)
> [<8003dc4c>] (__run_hrtimer.isra.25+0x0/0xd0) from [<8003eabc>] (hrtimer_run_queues+0x214/0x234)
>   r7:8168e2f0 r6:8168e2e0 r5:00000052 r4:0c14ad80
> [<8003e8a8>] (hrtimer_run_queues+0x0/0x234) from [<800292b4>] (run_local_timers+0x1c/0x54)
> [<80029298>] (run_local_timers+0x0/0x54) from [<80029324>] (update_process_times+0x38/0x6c)
>   r4:808b0000 r3:00000000
> [<800292ec>] (update_process_times+0x0/0x6c) from [<80062c18>] (tick_periodic+0x94/0xac)
>   r7:00000000 r6:817f2c80 r5:808ce168 r4:bf807d00
> [<80062b84>] (tick_periodic+0x0/0xac) from [<80062e14>] (tick_handle_periodic+0x2c/0x9c)
> [<80062de8>] (tick_handle_periodic+0x0/0x9c) from [<803dd7c0>] (arch_timer_handler_phys+0x30/0x38)
>   r9:410fc075 r8:817f2c80 r7:0000001d r6:bf81b240 r5:808ce168
> r4:bf807d00
> [<803dd790>] (arch_timer_handler_phys+0x0/0x38) from [<8005922c>] (handle_percpu_devid_irq+0x70/0x8c)
> [<800591bc>] (handle_percpu_devid_irq+0x0/0x8c) from [<800557ac>] (generic_handle_irq+0x28/0x38)
>   r8:808b0028 r7:808b1e54 r6:808b1f20 r5:808acd8c r4:0000001d
> r3:800591bc
> [<80055784>] (generic_handle_irq+0x0/0x38) from [<8000eac4>] (handle_IRQ+0x70/0x98)
>   r4:0000001d r3:00000140
> [<8000ea54>] (handle_IRQ+0x0/0x98) from [<80008560>] (gic_handle_irq+0x44/0x68)
>   r6:808b90c4 r5:808b1e20 r4:c0802000 r3:00000100
> [<8000851c>] (gic_handle_irq+0x0/0x68) from [<80012044>] (__irq_svc+0x44/0x58)
> Exception stack(0x808b1e20 to 0x808b1e68)
> 1e20: 00000001 000e38ed 00000000 808bc0a8 808b0000 00000082 80021d94 808b1f54
> 1e40: 808b0028 410fc075 00200000 808b1eac 808b1e38 808b1e68 8006a20c 80021b24
> 1e60: 200c0113 ffffffff
>   r6:ffffffff r5:200c0113 r4:80021b24 r3:8006a20c
> [<80021a2c>] (__do_softirq+0x0/0x29c) from [<80021d94>] (do_softirq+0x54/0x78)
> [<80021d40>] (do_softirq+0x0/0x78) from [<8002272c>] (irq_exit+0xa8/0x118)
>   r5:808acd8c r4:808b0008
> [<80022684>] (irq_exit+0x0/0x118) from [<8000eac8>] (handle_IRQ+0x74/0x98)
>   r5:808acd8c r4:0000001d
> [<8000ea54>] (handle_IRQ+0x0/0x98) from [<80008560>] (gic_handle_irq+0x44/0x68)
>   r6:808b90c4 r5:808b1f20 r4:c0802000 r3:00000100
> [<8000851c>] (gic_handle_irq+0x0/0x68) from [<80012044>] (__irq_svc+0x44/0x58)
> Exception stack(0x808b1f20 to 0x808b1f68)
> 1f20: 00000001 000e38ec 00000000 808bc0a8 808b0038 808c0360 808b0000 8168b880
> 1f40: 808b8b00 410fc075 00000000 808b1f74 808b1f38 808b1f68 8006a250 8000ee08
> 1f60: 200c0013 ffffffff
>   r6:ffffffff r5:200c0013 r4:8000ee08 r3:8006a250
> [<8000edcc>] (arch_cpu_idle+0x0/0x44) from [<800556fc>] (cpu_startup_entry+0xd0/0x138)
> [<8005562c>] (cpu_startup_entry+0x0/0x138) from [<805643b4>] (rest_init+0xe0/0x108)
> [<805642d4>] (rest_init+0x0/0x108) from [<80715b28>] (start_kernel+0x2fc/0x354)
>   r6:808b0000 r5:8073f450 r4:808b8c08
> [<8071582c>] (start_kernel+0x0/0x354) from [<80008084>] (0x80008084)
>
> I have disabled all drivers except for network, serial and MMC.
> My kernel is built using meta-fsl-arm/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-ls1_3.12.bb
>
> Any ideas what might cause this or how I can debug it further?
>

I don't fully understand why, but this was caused by U-Boot on
the board.  If I build U-Boot with GCC 4.9.2, I get the above
error.  If I build U-Boot with GCC 4.8.4, the error does not
occur and the system is 100% solid.  That's it - nothing else
changes, only U-Boot (with identical U-Boot sources).

I'm not sure what U-Boot could be doing to cause the above problems,
perhaps it's because it is experimental/pre-production silicon...
For now, I'll just use the older GCC for this target.

Weird :-(

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