Re: [Xenomai] Command line freeze during xeno-regression-test on omap4460

[Andreas Glatz <andi.glatz@gmail.com>]

On 4 Apr 2014, at 11:44, Gilles Chanteperdrix wrote:

> On 04/04/2014 12:27 PM, Andreas Glatz wrote:
>> Hi Gilles,
>>
>> I'm finally back to my original problem below:
>>
>> On 6 Jan 2014, at 17:39, Gilles Chanteperdrix wrote:
>>
>>> On 01/06/2014 04:30 PM, Andreas Glatz wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I managed to produce a kernel (v3.8.13) with xenomai 2.6.3 ipipe
>>>> patch and
>>>> rootfs (debian wheezy) with xenomai 2.6.3 libraries for my
>>>> Pandaboard ES
>>>> (omap4460). The simple regression test, which only calls dd during
>>>> the
>>>> switchtest, works fine. However the regression test with the linux
>>>> test
>>>> project (ltp-full-20130904) scripts causes some sort of system lock
>>>> up.
>>>> After that I only can ctrl-c xeno-regression-test (i.e.
>>>> switchtest), which,
>>>> however, doesn't help to regain console access (neigher over
>>>> ethernet nor
>>>> serial).
>>>>
>>>> Here's what I did:
>>>>
>>>> -- Building --
>>>> As recomended in the Xenomai 2.6 readme I followed the instructions
>>>> in [1]
>>>> to produce a kernel and filesystem. To get a xenomai kernel I had
>>>> to do
>>>> three things differently:
>>>>
>>>> *) I used: git checkout origin/v3.8.x -b tmp
>>>> *) I applied ipipe-core-3.8.13-arm-3.patch from the xenomai-2.6 git
>>>> tree as
>>>> described in the Xenomai 2.6 readme
>>>> *) I disabled KGDB and TIDSPBRIDGE since those produced compile
>>>> errors (see
>>>> config [2])
>>>>
>>>> After a while I obtained the following messages from dmesg [3] and
>>>> from the
>>>> command prompt:
>>>>
>>>> root@arm:~# cat /proc/version
>>>> Linux version 3.8.13-x3.6 (aglatz@linuxvbox) (gcc version 4.7.3
>>>> 20130328
>>>> (prerelease) (crosstool-NG linaro-1.13.1-4.7-2013.04-20130415 -
>>>> Linaro GCC
>>>> 2013.04) ) #4 SMP Sat Jan 4 15:54:20 GMT 2014
>>>>
>>>> -- Testing Linux --
>>>> To see if everything works I downloaded and cross-compiled
>>>> ltp-full-20130904 [4] with the same toolchain and flags (-
>>>> march=armv7-a
>>>> -mfpu=vfp3) as the xenomai libs and runtime. I started ltp with "./
>>>> runltp
>>>> -p -l dohell-2014-01-06-1.log -S xenomai.skiplist" and after a
>>>> while it
>>>> finished with a few failed tests [5]. The console access, however,
>>>> worked
>>>> fine.
>>>>
>>>> -- Testing Xenomai --
>>>> First I sucessfully could run the simple xenomai regression test:
>>>> xeno-regression-test -l "/usr/lib/xenomai/testsuite/dohell -m /tmp
>>>> 100" -t
>>>> 2 which produced the output in [6] and the following additional
>>>> messages
>>>> with dmesg:
>>>>
>>>> [  476.215057] Xenomai: RTDM: closing file descriptor 1.
>>>> [  477.434936] Xenomai: Posix: destroying semaphore f0069c00.
>>>> [  477.440887] Xenomai: Posix: destroying mutex f0069a00.
>>>> [  477.475372] xnheap: destroying shared heap 'rt_heap: heap' with
>>>> 16384
>>>> bytes still in use.
>>>> [  479.008453] Xenomai: Switching rt_task to secondary mode after
>>>> exception
>>>> #0 from user-space at 0x9620 (pid 2145)
>>>> [  480.574462] Xenomai: watchdog triggered -- signaling runaway
>>>> thread
>>>> 'rt_task'
>>>> [  480.582061] [sched_delayed] sched: RT throttling activated
>>>> [  557.336425] Xenomai: Posix: closing message queue descriptor 3.
>>>>
>>>> and  "cat /proc/xenomai/*" produced [7].
>>>>
>>>> When I started the realistic xenomai regression test: xeno-
>>>> regression-test
>>>> -l "/usr/lib/xenomai/testsuite/dohell -m /tmp -l /opt/ltp" -t 2
>>>> everything
>>>> seemed fine at first - I could logon and start top to inspect the
>>>> running
>>>> processes. However, the command line (over serial and ethernet)
>>>> consistently freezes after a while (at different ltp tests though).
>>>> First I
>>>> thought it's the massive system load which doesn't leave CPU for  
>>>> the
>>>> console... however ctrl-c of xeno-regression-test does not help to
>>>> regain
>>>> console access...
>>>
>>> That is because kill xeno-regression-test does not kill all the
>>> script children. So, basically, the load tasks are still running.
>>> Also, what filesystem is /tmp? dohell is using dd to alternatively
>>> write to /tmp, then erase the file. If /tmp is some flash, it will
>>> become slow after a while. If it is a tmpfs, it will eat RAM.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> The described problem is _very_ reproducible on my PandaBoard ES
>> (omap4460), where I boot from an SD card partition and the rootfs is
>> also on the SD card partition. I tried it with several kernel  
>> versions
>> (3.8.13, 3.10.18, and 3.10.34) with the latest ipipe and xenomai from
>> git the git repos. Everytime I start the regression test (see command
>> above) the following happens: Everything works fine until the switch/
>> latency tests start. Then I see that there is heavy access to the SD
>> card, which is expected, as the status LED 2 is blinking. After  
>> ~5mins
>> this status LED is constantly on. That's when I know that everything
>> is over. On the console I can only execute commands that are already
>> in RAM, such as the bash things like ps, mount, ... However, if I try
>> a simple 'touch new' it blocks forever and I know that it blocks in
>> the syscall where the file should be created, because I looked at it
>> with strace. I tried several things: I turned off CONFIG_PM (which  
>> was
>> on by default), turned on the MMC debugging, put extra prink's in the
>> omap_hsmmc.c ISR. However, everything seems to work on this level:  
>> DMA
>> requests are started and do finish, the ISR is called regularly (bc
>> first I though that Xenomai would starve it).
>>
>> Have you every run Xenonmai on this _specific_ board (since  
>> everything
>> is running smoothly on the omap5 board)?
>> Any more ideas how to debug it?
>>
>> Currently, I'm compiling the ipipe trace in hope that it would tell  
>> me
>> something useful...
>>
>> Oh yes, the best bit is that the regression test works perfectly fine
>> if I boot from an external USB HD _AND_ unmount (!) all MMC  
>> partitions.
>
> So, the MMC driver has a problem. Have you tried:
> - running the exact same kernel configuration only with CONFIG_XENOMAI
> disabled (and stress with dohell)
> - then with CONFIG_XENOMAI and CONFIG_IPIPE disabled.
>
> Also, do you have this patch in the tree you tried?
> http://git.xenomai.org/ipipe.git/commit/?h=stable/ipipe-3.10.18&id=c26e7ad5679f9391cd8ea1db001bf301d2f6bc88
>
>

I did try the regression test without the switch/latency tests (aka: '/ 
usr/lib/xenomai/testsuite/dohell -m /tmp -l /opt/ltp') and, as far as  
I recall, they finished successfully. I also couldn't find any error  
reports about the omap mmc driver on the kernel mailing list. The only  
thing I found was this patch [1], which I also applied. It didn't  
change a thing though.

However, I'll try an run the test you suggested on my shiny new  
3.10.34 kernel. I built it last Monday after merging all the ipipe git  
stuff with CNelsons 3.18.14 kernel. I saw that the patch you mentioned  
is in the 3.10.18 tree. Shall I apply it to my kernel as well?

A.

[1] http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-omap/msg104712.html