[poky] bernard 5.0.1 and beagle-xm rev c

Darren Hart dvhart at linux.intel.com
Thu Jun 16 10:48:50 PDT 2011 


On 06/16/2011 08:30 AM, Alexander Holler wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> thanks for adding me to the cc.
> 
> Am 16.06.2011 03:32, schrieb Jason Kridner:
>> I don't know, but you might want to add align(4) attribute, rather
>> than remove the packed attribute, to provide the most compatible EHCI
>> code across architectures...
> 
> The original patch from Laine Walker-Avina <lwalkera at ieee.org> which I 
> used to get EHCI in U_Boot running has had the aligned(4) (I've never 
> seen the comment of the original patch, the patch without comment was 
> hinted to me by Anand Gadiyar <<gadiyar at ti.com>).
> I first just removed the packed attribute too, but after seeing it 
> again, I've come to the conclusion, that this might fail e.g. 64-bit 
> architectures. Without any packed attribute the compiler is free to 
> choose whatever alignment he thinks fits best, which e.g. might be 
> 8-byte on 64-bit machines. The problem with the packed seems to be that 
> gcc 4.6, I don't know why, access the members byte by byte. Using 
> aligned(4) helps here too and is imho the better solution.
> 
> Btw., commit 139540170d9d9b7ead3caaf540f161756b356d56 fixed a problem 
> with 2.6.38.5 upwards here. I couldn't use EHCI on such a kernel when it 
> was compiled with gcc 4.6 for ARM(v7). So that commit (preferable with 
> an added aligned(4) instead of the removal of packed), might be a 
> candidate for the stable tree.
> 
> I haven't had at first the idea to look in the kernel too if there is 
> such an attribute packed used for the EHCI-struct too, because I haven't 
> had any problems with a gcc 4.6 compiled 2.6.39.N on an armv5-box. I 
> still don't know why I've run in this problem only with an armv7-kernel 
> for the BeagleBoard, but I'm too lazy to look up why. I find it already 
> curious that packed or not packed makes a difference in how the compiler 
> accesses a member, but it's fixed in the kernel too with the changes of 
> the above commit (or with an added aligned(4)). I've tested both 
> solutions (and prefer the aligned).

I'm new to ARM development, but it was explained to me as being due to
ARM not being able to do misaligned loads for a word. I suspect
something in the previous compiler left those structures aligned,
despite the packing. (Not verified)

--
Darren

> 
> Regards,
> 
> Alexander
> 
> 
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 7:36 PM, Darren Hart<dvhart at linux.intel.com>  wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> On 06/15/2011 10:18 AM, Robert Berger wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> On 06/15/2011 07:38 PM, Darren Hart wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> For details on that effort and it's status, please see:
>>>>>
>>>>> https://lists.yoctoproject.org/pipermail/yocto/2011-June/001599.html
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I'm aware of this.
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Both Koen and Jason K. have been helping to get the right bits merged
>>>>> for the kernel. I had hoped to use mainline u-boot, but it appears we
>>>>> may need at least a set of patches in support of Rev C.
>>>>
>>>> What else is needed in addition to [2]?
>>>
>>>
>>> Mainline u-boot appears to be adequate according to Jason.
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> The updated BSP will be released with 1.1. My patches and commits will
>>>>> of course hit the list before then and you can build from master once
>>>>> they arrive there. Within a week I suspect.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I hope we'll have something which works without graphics on the Beagle
>>>> XM - Rev C before October (1.1) - before summer would be great.
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> We won't be making another 1.0 release for the Beagleboard. The refresh
>>> will come with 1.1. If you don't want to build master for the entire
>>> image, you could build the linux-yocto recipe from master and install
>>> uImage and the kernel modules over a bernard image. I should have all
>>> the necessary bits committed in the next few days.
>>>
>>>
>>>> This means, I would assume, gcc 4.6.0 fixes and the Beagle XM Rev C
>>>> stuff. I did not dare to touch master due to the gcc 4.6.0 issues.
>>>> Will this be fixed as well in the near future?
>>>
>>>
>>> This is resolved for ARM with the following patch from mainline
>>> linux-2.6.git:
>>>
>>> commit 139540170d9d9b7ead3caaf540f161756b356d56
>>> Author: Rabin Vincent<rabin at rab.in>
>>> Date:   Wed Apr 27 21:07:28 2011 +0530
>>>
>>>     USB: ehci: remove structure packing from ehci_def
>>>
>>>     As pointed out by Arnd Bergmann, in include/linux/usb/ehci_def.h, struct
>>>     ehci_caps is defined with __attribute__((packed)) for no good reason,
>>>     and this triggers undefined behaviour when using ARM's readl() on
>>>     pointers to elements of this structure:
>>>
>>>     http://lkml.kernel.org/r/201102021700.20683.arnd@arndb.de
>>>
>>>     The same problem exists with the other two structures in ehci_def.h too,
>>>     so remove the __attribute__((packed)) from all of them.
>>>
>>>     Cc: Arnd Bergmann<arnd at arndb.de>
>>>     Signed-off-by: Rabin Vincent<rabin at rab.in>
>>>     Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman<gregkh at suse.de>
>>
>> I've been pretty delinquent in following-up to mailing list feedback,
>> but we had a similar issue in trying to enable EHCI within u-boot.
>> Someone, I've forgotten who now, recommended to Alexander that it
>> would be better to do "__attribute__ ((packed, aligned(4)))" than to
>> remove the packed attribute altogether.
>>
>> See http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/92345/
>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> I also played around with the patches in the meantime and
>>>>
>>>> [1] for the x-loader
>>>> [2] for for u-boot
>>>>
>>>> seem to apply cleanly on whatever comes with bernard 5.0.1
>>>>
>>>> [1]
>>>> http://gitorious.org/x-loader/x-loader/commit/2efa178acd56d83c86210b5934895cfb9ea62125
>>>>
>>>> [2]
>>>> http://git.denx.de/?p=u-boot.git;a=commitdiff;h=f6e593bb1255d1e15201cb5dec8c95264489e729
>>>>
>>>> The kernel patch against 2.6.37 seems to be a bit more involved.
>>>>
>>>> Of course more code might be needed to make the Beagle XM Rev C work.
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>>
>>>> Robert
>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Darren Hart
>>>>> Intel Open Source Technology Center
>>>>> Yocto Project - Linux Kernel
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