Hi folks!

On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 03:05:41PM +0100, Neil Williams wrote:
>On Thu, 27 Apr 2017 08:19:19 +0100
>Neil Williams <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>CC:'ing Andy to see if there is extra config required to get this to work.
>
>Andy: can you look at
>https://staging.validation.linaro.org/scheduler/job/174524 and see why
>the code does not start reading from the probe?
>
>dmesg -T and lsusb -v output is included in the log, from inside the LXC.

I've just run a local test with an AEP inside lxc on my local
machine. As far as I can see, there's nothing particularly magic going
on here. The only problem I see is Lisa's config file pointing at the
wrong device file. arm-probe needs a ttyACM-style device to talk
to. Using:

# lxc-device -n lxc-aep-test-174524 add /dev/ttyACM0

I create that device in my container. I build libwebsockets and the
arm-probe software in the container, then specify /dev/ttyACM0 in the
AEP config file. I can run it just fine:

root@lxc-aep-test-174524:/arm-probe# ./arm-probe/arm-probe -C panda-aep.cfg 
-l10 -x
# configuration: panda-aep.cfg
# config_name: pandaboard
# trigger: 0.400000V (hyst 0.200000V) 0.000000W (hyst 0.200000W) 400us
Configuration: pandaboard
# date: Fri, 19 May 2017 16:29:50 +0100
# host: lxc-aep-test-174524
#
+ /dev/ttyACM0
Starting...
sending start to 0
# VDD_ALL       VDD     ROOT    #ff0000 SoC
#
#
time  VDD(V) VDD(A) VDD(W)
0.000500  5.11 0.0474 0.24196
0.000600  5.11 0.0364 0.18572
0.000700  5.11 0.0314 0.16012
0.000800  5.10 0.0544 0.27734
0.000900  5.10 0.0234 0.11923
0.001000  5.11 0.0304 0.15505
...

I don't have any problems running things and getting output here.

I *have* seen two real bugs here while trying to get things running,
though:

 1. If the device specified in the config file doesn't exist, or is
    the wrong type of device, or (maybe) there is any other kind of
    problem with it, you get *no* useful feedback to say there's a
    problem. Running things under strace will show the background
    libarmep process attempt to use the device specified, but there's
    no error handling. :-(

2. The "-x" option says that the arm-probe program is meant to exit
   when you've done capturing, but it just sits there forever when I'm
   testing. I've wrapped it using the "timeout" command to work around
   that for now.

If I knew where to file those bugs, I would, but it's really not
obvious. They're really easy to reproduce, I hope...

In terms of the /dev/ttyACM0 creation, the lxc-device man page says
that it creates devices based on their existing entries on the
host. Double-check that the host (dispatcher) has an appropriate
/dev/ttyACM0 if you're still seeing problems?

Cheers,
-- 
Steve McIntyre                                [email protected]
<http://www.linaro.org/> Linaro.org | Open source software for ARM SoCs

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