Re: [PATCH v5 4/5] ARM: dts: mt8135: enable basic SMP bringup for mt8135

[Kevin Hilman]

On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 4:40 AM, Eddie Huang <eddie.huang@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Kevin,
>
> On Mon, 2015-10-26 at 17:06 +0900, Kevin Hilman wrote:
>> On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 4:15 PM, Yingjoe Chen <yingjoe.chen@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > On Mon, 2015-10-26 at 09:56 +0900, Kevin Hilman wrote:
>> >> Hello,
>> >>
>> >> On Sat, Oct 3, 2015 at 12:19 AM, Yingjoe Chen <yingjoe.chen@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >> > Add arch timer node to enable arch-timer support. MT8135 firmware
>> >> > doesn't correctly setup arch-timer frequency and CNTVOFF, add
>> >> > properties to workaround this.
>> >> >
>> >> > This also set cpu enable-method to enable SMP.
>> >> >
>> >> > Signed-off-by: Yingjoe Chen <yingjoe.chen@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> >>
>> >> kernelci.org started detecting new boot failures for the mt8135-evb in
>> >> the arm-soc tree[1], and the boot failures were bisected down to this
>> >> patch, which landed upstream in the form of commit d186a394bb98 (ARM:
>> >> dts: mt8135: enable basic SMP bringup for mt8135)
>> >>
>> >> Maybe this new SMP support requires updating the firmware on the board
>> >> as well?  If so, the changelog should've been a bit more explicit
>> >> about firmware dependencies.
>> >
>> > Kevin,
>> >
>> > Thanks for testing.
>> >
>> > No, it doesn't need new firmware. Will test to see what's going wrong.
>>
>> Thanks for following up.  I'll be glad to test any patches if you have
>> anything you'd like me to test.
>
> You need "clockevents/drivers/mtk: Fix spurious interrupt leading to
> crash" (https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/8/24/803)
>
> Daniel Lezcano already applied this patch in his tree for 4.4.
> (https://git.linaro.org/people/daniel.lezcano/linux.git)

The mt8135-evp board is still failing to boot in linux-next[1] (and
has been since next-20151022.)  It appears the dependencies are not
quite correct in linux-next either.

Kevin

[1]
http://kernelci.org/boot/mt8135-evbp1/job/next/kernel/next-20151109/defconfig/multi_v7_defconfig/lab/lab-khilman/?_id=564037fe59b514b2f6091909
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