Re: ARMv8: New board bring up hangs in kernel start?

[Dirk Behme <dirk.behme@gmail.com>]

Hello Julien,

On 29.03.2016 20:53, Julien Grall wrote:
> On 23/03/16 17:24, Dirk Behme wrote:
>> Hi,
>
> Hello Dirk,
>
> Sorry for the late answer.


Many thanks for answering at all :)


>> trying to bring up Xen on a new ARMv8 64-bit Cortex A57 eval board, I
>> get [1] and then its hanging there.
>
> The logs look normal.
>
> Do you know where the kernel get stuck? You can press CTRL-a 3 times
> to get access to the Xen console and then press:
> * 0 => dump Dom0 registers
> * d => dump registers


Hmm, CTRL-a 3 times doesn't seem to work, either.

This does need working interrupts, too? I.e. that it doesn't work is 
an additional hint that anything with the interrupt handling might be 
wrong?

Maybe I should debug this, first.

It's handled by Xen's drivers/char/console.c / serial.c and the board 
specific UART device driver, correct?


>> I'd guess that it hangs due to missing timer interrupt, maybe missing
>> interrupts at all?
>>
>> Any hints how to debug this? Or where to look?
>>
>> It might be possible that the board's firmware (arm-trusted-firmware
>> based) doesn't configure anything correctly. Firmware is running at
>> EL3,
>> Xen at EL2. The same kernel is running fine without Xen.
>>
>> Using a JTAG debugger I've put breakpoints into xen/arch/arm/time.c
>> timer_interrupt() & vtimer_interrupt() but these don't seem to be
>> called
>> at all (?)
>
> They should be called if the timer is configured correctly.
>
>> Best regards
>>
>> Dirk
>>
>> [1]
>
> [...]
>
>  > (XEN) Checking for initrd in /chosen
>  > (XEN) RAM: 0000000048000000 - 000000007fffffff
>  > (XEN)
>  > (XEN) MODULE[0]: 0000000048000000 - 00000000480058a2 Device Tree
>  > (XEN) MODULE[1]: 0000000048200000 - 0000000048c00000 Kernel
>  > (XEN)
>  > (XEN) Command line: console=dtuart dom0_mem=512M loglvl=all
>  > (XEN) Placing Xen at 0x000000007fe00000-0x0000000080000000
>  > (XEN) Update BOOTMOD_XEN from 0000000049000000-0000000049112e01 =>
>  > 000000007fe00000-000000007ff12e01
>  > (XEN) Domain heap initialised
>  > (XEN) Platform: ARMv8 Cortex A57 64-bit eval board
>  > (XEN) Taking dtuart configuration from /chosen/stdout-path
>  > (XEN) Looking for dtuart at "/soc/serial@e6e88000", options ""
>  >   Xen 4.7-unstable
>  > (XEN) Xen version 4.7-unstable (dirk@build) (aarch64-poky-linux-gcc
>  > (Linaro GCC 4.9-2015.03) 4.9.3 20150311 (prerelease)) debug=y Mon
> Mar 21
>  > 09:15:03 CET 2016
>  > (XEN) Latest ChangeSet: Tue Feb 9 09:37:15 2016 +0100 git:b0a2893
>
> I can't find this changeset in tree. Can you provide your baseline
> commit and the list of patches you applied on top?


This is

483ad4439f7fc7 xen-access: minor fixes

plus a local patch to support the board's serial port.


> Also have you tried a newer version of Xen?


I've switched to the recent master

a6f2cdb63 x86/hvm/viridian: keep APIC assist page mapped

now. No difference.

I'll have a deeper look into the interrupt configuration.

Is there anywhere some basic description which interrupts are supposed 
to be handled by XEN and which by the Linux kernel? I.e. how the ARM 
GIC should be configured regarding the distributor/CPU/virtual parts?

Best regards

Dirk


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