L4Linux stop at "Calibrating delay loop ..."

[li94575]

At 2016-09-23 05:31:52, "Adam Lackorzynski" <adam at os.inf.tu-dresden.de> wrote:
>
>On Thu Sep 22, 2016 at 22:32:28 +0800, li94575 wrote:
>> Hi, adam
>> >On Mon Sep 19, 2016 at 22:55:52 +0800, li94575 wrote:
>> >>     I compiled the l4re-snapshot-2014092821 with the default modules.list, and everything seems goes
>> >> well. However, L4Linux would stop at "Calibrating delay loop ...", because the value of jiffies did not change.
>> >> Timer thread has not generate soft interrupt? If I entered jdb via ESC at this time, and quit via "g", then 
>> >> l4linux can run again. It makes me confused so much.
>> >>     Any help or suggestion will be very welcome.
>> >
>> >This behavior typically indicates that there's an issue with Fiasco's
>> >timer interrupt or with the user-level one in L4Linux.
>> >For a start you could add e.g. a printk(".\n") in timer_thread in
>> >arch/l4/kernel/timer.c to see if it really does something.
>> >Does 'hello' work?
>> >Although it's a bit of work you could also compare the code of your
>> >snapshot and a recent one if there's any significant change (i.e. fix)
>> >that might be relevant. Check arch/l4/kernel/timer.c
>> >and src/kern/arm/timer-arm-generic.cpp and
>> >src/kern/arm/generic_timer.cpp in the Fiasco kernel.
>>
>> 'Hello' can work well, which prints "Hello World!" circularly.  I add
>> printk(".\n") in timer_thread in arch/l4/kernel/timer.c, and found
>> timer_thread stop at l4_ipc_reply_and_wait(u, t, &l, to)
>> afterinitializing the variable ¡®increment¡¯.
>
>printk and any other Linux functionaliy cannot be used in this function
>because the timer_thread isn't run in a Linux context. It's run in an L4
>thread next to Linux. (Sorry for my mistake of writing printk above, I
>actually really meant to write LOG_printf.)
>
>> However, if I use
>> LOG_printf() for printing, the phenomenon is different, that
>> timer_thread trigers a soft interrupt once. I have checked
>> src/kern/arm/timer-arm-generic.cpp and src/kern/arm/generic_timer.cpp
>> in the Fiasco kernel, there is less likely to be a problem with them.
>
>So there's still a problem somewhere. Do you think you could try with a
>more recent L4Re version? I remember vaguely that I might have already
>seen this behavior but this would be long ago.
>
I have to admit that there may be a problem with the configuration of the generic timer, but I donot know where the problem. Before this, the generic timer can run well with fiasco.oc-r56+genode+l4linux3.9, I do not make any changes and move the bsp codefor this newer fiasco version.I replace generic timer with Aptimer, then l4linux can run well. So, If I want to assign anAptimer for each CPU, is there any ready-made case for reference?
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