Re: [BUG BISECT] Net boot fails on VF50 after "dmaengine: fsl-edma: support little endian for edma driver"

From: Fabio Estevam
Date: Tue Jul 02 2019 - 09:04:51 EST


Hi Krzysztof,

On Tue, Jul 2, 2019 at 9:13 AM Krzysztof KozÅowski
<k.kozlowski.k@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Bisect pointed commit:
> commit 002905eca5bedab08bafd9e325bbbb41670c7712
> Author: Peng Ma <peng.ma@xxxxxxx>
> Date: Thu Jun 13 10:27:08 2019 +0000
> dmaengine: fsl-edma: support little endian for edma driver
>
> as a reason of NFSv4 root boot failures. Toradex Colibri VF50 (Cortex
> A5) on Toradex Iris board.
>
> The user-space starts but hangs - a lot of messages are missing or
> seriously delayed.
>
> Please revert the patch of fix it. If needed I can provide more
> details about test system - let me know.
>
> Full log attached.

Does this fix the problem?

--- a/arch/arm/boot/dts/vfxxx.dtsi
+++ b/arch/arm/boot/dts/vfxxx.dtsi
@@ -92,6 +92,7 @@
clock-names = "dmamux0", "dmamux1";
clocks = <&clks VF610_CLK_DMAMUX0>,
<&clks VF610_CLK_DMAMUX1>;
+ big-endian;
status = "disabled";
};

@@ -491,6 +492,7 @@
clock-names = "dmamux0", "dmamux1";
clocks = <&clks VF610_CLK_DMAMUX2>,
<&clks VF610_CLK_DMAMUX3>;
+ big-endian;
status = "disabled";
};

I am not saying this is the proper fix as we should not break old dtb's.