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ARM: dts: meson8b: add reserved memory zone to fix silent freezes

Message ID 20171002155903.19511-1-linus.luessing@c0d3.blue (mailing list archive)
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Linus Lüssing Oct. 2, 2017, 3:59 p.m. UTC
So far, the stress-ng tool for instance quickly resulted in a silent
freeze of the system with no prior notice on a serial console when
running its filesystem or memory stressor classes.

Even with a panic-on-OOM and reboot-on-panic (vm.panic_on_oom=1,
kernel.panic=10) configured, the system would neither reboot nor
would the OOM killer get any chance to otherwise do its job.

The Amlogic reference source code uses a 2MB PHYS_OFFSET. With these 2MB
reserved via DT, stress-ng was able to run on an Odroid C1+ just fine for
several hours, the OOM killer was able to kill processes again and if
configured would successfully trigger a reboot of the system.

Fixes: 4a69fcd3a108 ("ARM: meson: Add DTS for Odroid-C1 and Tronfy MXQ boards")
Signed-off-by: Linus Lüssing <linus.luessing@c0d3.blue>

---
The following stress-ng command worked fine now:
$ stress-ng -v --sequential 0 -t 120s --exclude sysfs,opcode --metrics
(5 hours runtime, tested on an Odroid C1+ with an 4.14-rc1 kernel + SMP
+ USB DTS patches)
---
 arch/arm/boot/dts/meson8b.dtsi | 12 ++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)

Comments

Martin Blumenstingl Oct. 2, 2017, 6:39 p.m. UTC | #1
On Mon, Oct 2, 2017 at 5:59 PM, Linus Lüssing <linus.luessing@c0d3.blue> wrote:
> So far, the stress-ng tool for instance quickly resulted in a silent
> freeze of the system with no prior notice on a serial console when
> running its filesystem or memory stressor classes.
>
> Even with a panic-on-OOM and reboot-on-panic (vm.panic_on_oom=1,
> kernel.panic=10) configured, the system would neither reboot nor
> would the OOM killer get any chance to otherwise do its job.
>
> The Amlogic reference source code uses a 2MB PHYS_OFFSET. With these 2MB
> reserved via DT, stress-ng was able to run on an Odroid C1+ just fine for
> several hours, the OOM killer was able to kill processes again and if
> configured would successfully trigger a reboot of the system.
>
> Fixes: 4a69fcd3a108 ("ARM: meson: Add DTS for Odroid-C1 and Tronfy MXQ boards")
> Signed-off-by: Linus Lüssing <linus.luessing@c0d3.blue>
Acked-by: Martin Blumenstingl <martin.blumenstingl@googlemail.com>

>
> ---
> The following stress-ng command worked fine now:
> $ stress-ng -v --sequential 0 -t 120s --exclude sysfs,opcode --metrics
> (5 hours runtime, tested on an Odroid C1+ with an 4.14-rc1 kernel + SMP
> + USB DTS patches)
> ---
>  arch/arm/boot/dts/meson8b.dtsi | 12 ++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm/boot/dts/meson8b.dtsi b/arch/arm/boot/dts/meson8b.dtsi
> index bc278da..d75a5b5 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/boot/dts/meson8b.dtsi
> +++ b/arch/arm/boot/dts/meson8b.dtsi
> @@ -83,6 +83,18 @@
>                 };
>         };
>
> +       reserved-memory {
> +               #address-cells = <1>;
> +               #size-cells = <1>;
> +               ranges;
> +
> +               /* 2 MiB reserved for Hardware ROM Firmware? */
> +               hwrom@0 {
> +                       reg = <0x0 0x200000>;
> +                       no-map;
> +               };
> +       };
> +
>         scu@c4300000 {
>                 compatible = "arm,cortex-a5-scu";
>                 reg = <0xc4300000 0x100>;
> --
> 2.1.4
>
Kevin Hilman Oct. 6, 2017, 10:59 p.m. UTC | #2
Linus Lüssing <linus.luessing@c0d3.blue> writes:

> So far, the stress-ng tool for instance quickly resulted in a silent
> freeze of the system with no prior notice on a serial console when
> running its filesystem or memory stressor classes.
>
> Even with a panic-on-OOM and reboot-on-panic (vm.panic_on_oom=1,
> kernel.panic=10) configured, the system would neither reboot nor
> would the OOM killer get any chance to otherwise do its job.
>
> The Amlogic reference source code uses a 2MB PHYS_OFFSET. With these 2MB
> reserved via DT, stress-ng was able to run on an Odroid C1+ just fine for
> several hours, the OOM killer was able to kill processes again and if
> configured would successfully trigger a reboot of the system.
>
> Fixes: 4a69fcd3a108 ("ARM: meson: Add DTS for Odroid-C1 and Tronfy MXQ boards")
> Signed-off-by: Linus Lüssing <linus.luessing@c0d3.blue>

Applied to v4.15/dt with Martin's Tested-by,

Thanks,

Kevin
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diff --git a/arch/arm/boot/dts/meson8b.dtsi b/arch/arm/boot/dts/meson8b.dtsi
index bc278da..d75a5b5 100644
--- a/arch/arm/boot/dts/meson8b.dtsi
+++ b/arch/arm/boot/dts/meson8b.dtsi
@@ -83,6 +83,18 @@ 
 		};
 	};
 
+	reserved-memory {
+		#address-cells = <1>;
+		#size-cells = <1>;
+		ranges;
+
+		/* 2 MiB reserved for Hardware ROM Firmware? */
+		hwrom@0 {
+			reg = <0x0 0x200000>;
+			no-map;
+		};
+	};
+
 	scu@c4300000 {
 		compatible = "arm,cortex-a5-scu";
 		reg = <0xc4300000 0x100>;