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Re: [Xen-devel] Question about running Xen on NVIDIA Jetson-TK1



(CC Kyle who is also working on Tegra?)

Hi Meng,

Many people are working on Nvidia platform with different issues :/. I have CCed another person which IIRC is also working on it.

On 16/05/16 17:33, Meng Xu wrote:
On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 7:33 AM, Julien Grall <julien.grall@xxxxxxx> wrote:

On 15/05/16 20:35, Meng Xu wrote:

I'm trying to run Xen on NVIDIA Jetson TK1 board. (Right now, Xen does
not support the Jetson board officially. But I'm thinking it may be
very interesting and useful to see it happens, since it has GPU inside
which is quite popular in automotive.)

Now I encountered some problem to boot dom0 in Xen environment. I want
to debug the issues and maybe fix the issues, but I'm not so sure how
I should debug the issue more efficiently. I really appreciate it if
you advise me a little bit about the method of how to fix the issue.
:-)

---Below is the details----

I noticed the Dushyant from IBM also tried to run Xen on the Jetson
board. (http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/xen/devel/422519). I
used the same Linux kernel (Jan Kiszka's development tree -
http://git.kiszka.org/linux.git/, branch queues/assorted) and Ian's
Xen repo. with the hack for Jetson board. I can see the dom0 kernel
can boot to some extend and then "stall/spin" before the dom0 kernel
fully boot up.

In order to figure out the possible issue, I boot the exact same Linux
kernel in native environment on one CPU and collected the boot log
information in [1]. I also boot the same Linux kernel as dom0 in Xen
environment and collected the boot log information in [2].

In Xen environment, dom0 hangs after the following message
[   10.541010] NET: Registered protocol family 10
6mip6: Mobile IPv6
[   10.542510] mi

In native environment, the kernel has the following log after initializing NET.
[    2.934693] NET: Registered protocol family 10
[    2.940611] mip6: Mobile IPv6
[    2.943645] sit: IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver
[    2.951303] NET: Registered protocol family 17
[    2.955800] NET: Registered protocol family 15
[    2.960257] can: controller area network core (rev 20120528 abi 9)
[    2.966617] NET: Registered protocol family 29
[    2.971098] can: raw protocol (rev 20120528)
[    2.975384] can: broadcast manager protocol (rev 20120528 t)
[    2.981088] can: netlink gateway (rev 20130117) max_hops=1
[    2.986734] Bluetooth: RFCOMM socket layer initialized
[    2.991979] Bluetooth: RFCOMM ver 1.11
[    2.995757] Bluetooth: BNEP (Ethernet Emulation) ver 1.3
[    3.001109] Bluetooth: BNEP socket layer initialized
[    3.006089] Bluetooth: HIDP (Human Interface Emulation) ver 1.2
[    3.012052] Bluetooth: HIDP socket layer initialized
[    3.017894] Registering SWP/SWPB emulation handler
[    3.029675] tegra-pcie 1003000.pcie-controller: 2x1, 1x1 configuration
[    3.036586] +3.3V_SYS: supplied by +VDD_MUX
[    3.040857] +3.3V_LP0: supplied by +3.3V_SYS
[    3.045509] +1.35V_LP0(sd2): supplied by +5V_SYS
[    3.050201] +1.05V_RUN_AVDD: supplied by +1.35V_LP0(sd2)
[    3.057131] tegra-pcie 1003000.pcie-controller: probing port 0, using 2 lanes
[    3.066479] tegra-pcie 1003000.pcie-controller: Slot present pin
change, signature: 00000008

I'm suspecting that my dom0 kernel hangs when it tries to initialize
"can: controller area network core ". However, from Dushyant's post at
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/xen/devel/422519,  it seems
Dushyant's dom0 kernel hangs when it tries to initialize pci_bus. (The
linux config I used may be different form Dushyant's. That could be
the reason.)

Right now, the system just hangs and has no output indicating what the
problem could be. Although there are a lot of error message before the
system hangs, I'm not that sure if I should start with solving all of
those error messages. Maybe some errors can be ignored?

My questions are:
1) Do you have suggestion on how to see more information about the
reason why the dom0 hangs?


Have you tried to dump the registers using Xen console (CTLR-x 3 times then 0) 
and see where it get stucks?


I tried to type CTLR -x 3 times and then 0, nothing happens... :-(
Just to confirm, once the system got stuck, I directly type Ctrl-x for
three times on the host's screen. Am I correct?

Sorry, I forgot the default way to switch console is CTLR-a three times.

On my configuration I modified the default character to avoid issue with screen.


Maybe the serial console is not correctly set up?

It's likely to be a problem with the serial drivers in driver. Can you tried CTLR-a before the kernel is booting?

The serial console configuration I used is as follows, could you have
a quick look to see if it's because I configure the serial
incorrectly?

I am not familiar with the Nvidia board. If the serial configuration is working for baremetal, then it should work for Xen.


I used screen program to attach to the serial port.
The command I used is $screen /dev/ttyUSB0 115200n8 on the host machine.

On the board, I set up the device tree's /chosen node as follows:
#
fdt print /chosen

chosen {

         xen,xen-bootargs = "console=dtuart dtuart=serial0
dom0_mem=512M loglvl=all guest_loglvl=all dom0_max_vcpus=1
dom0_vcpus_pin maxcpus=1";

         bootargs = "console=dtuart dtuart=serial0 dom0_mem=512M
loglvl=all guest_loglvl=all dom0_max_vcpus=1 dom0_vcpus_pin
maxcpus=1";

FIY, this property is not necessary.

         module {

                 bootargs = "console=hvc0 console=tty1 earlyprintk=xen
root=/dev/mmcblk0p1 rw rootwait";

Can you try to add "clk_ignore_unused" on the Linux command line?

This parameter will avoid DOM0 to disable clock for unused devices such as the UART used by Xen.


                 reg = <0x00000000 0x81000000 0x00000000 0x004f2b70>;

                 compatible = "xen,linux-zimage", "xen,multiboot-module";

         };

};

Thank you very much for your time and help!

Best Regards,

Regards,

--
Julien Grall

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