Re: ARM Juno r1 + CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING=y => boot failure

From: Sudeep Holla
Date: Fri Oct 11 2019 - 06:05:44 EST


Hi Marek,

On Fri, Oct 11, 2019 at 11:26:04AM +0200, Marek Szyprowski wrote:
> Hi
>
> Recently I've got access to ARM Juno R1 board and did some tests with
> current mainline kernel on it. I'm a bit surprised that enabling
> CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING causes a boot failure on this board. After enabling
> this Kconfig option, I get no single message from the kernel, although I
> have earlycon enabled.
>

I don't have Juno R1 but I tried defconfig + CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING and
it boots fine.

So if you disable CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING(i.e. defconfig) boots fine ?
Are you using DTB from the mainline ?

> I've did my test with default defconfig and current linux-next,
> v5.4-rc1, v5.3 and v4.19. In all cases the result is the same. I'm
> booting kernel using a precompiled uboot from Linaro release and TFTP
> download.
>

OK, I use UEFI+GRUB but I don't think that should cause any issue.

> Is this a known issue? Other ARM64 boards I have access to (Samsung TM2e
> and RaspberryPi3) boots fine with the same kernel image.
>

Not that I am aware of. If you could send me the bootlog with defconfig
I can take a look and see if I get any clue.

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Regards,
Sudeep