RE: Please help! AM35xx mm/slab.c BUG

2012-06-19 Thread Mohammed, Afzal
Hi, On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 06:59:42, CF Adad wrote: Anyway, we have advanced our kernel to today's latest l-o (3.5-rc2). Though we are not considering the GPMC a likely source of the error at this moment, I'm considering exploring this patchset.  Unfortunately, the NAND is very critical

Re: Please help! AM35xx mm/slab.c BUG

2012-06-18 Thread CF Adad
@vger.kernel.org linux-omap@vger.kernel.org; Tony Lindgren t...@atomide.com; Shilimkar, Santosh santosh.shilim...@ti.com Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2012 7:14 AM Subject: RE: Please help! AM35xx mm/slab.c BUG Hi, On Fri, Jun 08, 2012 at 01:20:13, CF Adad wrote: Thanks for your thoughts!  I may try

Re: Please help! AM35xx mm/slab.c BUG

2012-06-14 Thread CF Adad
An update: *LAN9221 and GPMC off the hook?* We've isolated the GPMC away from this I believe by disabling the LAN9221 in both our bootloaders and the kernel and by booting everything off the SD cards only.  By removing it's initialization code from the respective board files, I *hope* we've

Re: Please help! AM35xx mm/slab.c BUG

2012-06-14 Thread jean-philippe francois
2012/6/14 CF Adad cfa...@rocketmail.com: An update: *LAN9221 and GPMC off the hook?* We've isolated the GPMC away from this I believe by disabling the LAN9221 in both our bootloaders and the kernel and by booting everything off the SD cards only.  By removing it's initialization code from

Re: Please help! AM35xx mm/slab.c BUG

2012-06-14 Thread CF Adad
@vger.kernel.org; Tony Lindgren t...@atomide.com; Shilimkar, Santosh santosh.shilim...@ti.com Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2012 3:10 PM Subject: Re: Please help! AM35xx mm/slab.c BUG 2012/6/14 CF Adad cfa...@rocketmail.com: An update: *LAN9221 and GPMC off the hook?* We've isolated the GPMC away

RE: Please help! AM35xx mm/slab.c BUG

2012-06-12 Thread Mohammed, Afzal
Hi, On Fri, Jun 08, 2012 at 01:20:13, CF Adad wrote: Thanks for your thoughts!  I may try fiddling a bit just to see if that helps. 5 series of patches for gpmc modifications [1-5] has been posted, In case it helps in resolving your issue, please let me know. You will have to use the new

Re: Please help! AM35xx mm/slab.c BUG

2012-06-12 Thread CF Adad
AM Subject: RE: Please help! AM35xx mm/slab.c BUG Hi, On Fri, Jun 08, 2012 at 01:20:13, CF Adad wrote: Thanks for your thoughts!  I may try fiddling a bit just to see if that helps. 5 series of patches for gpmc modifications [1-5] has been posted, In case it helps in resolving your issue, please

RE: Please help! AM35xx mm/slab.c BUG

2012-06-07 Thread Mohammed, Afzal
Hi , On Wed, Jun 06, 2012 at 13:21:23, CF Adad wrote: Thanks again.  I'm really starting to think the GPMC almost has to be contributing. Does adding cycle2cycle delay / bus turnaround prevent the issue ?, SMSC datasheet mentions about special restrictions on back to back read and

Re: Please help! AM35xx mm/slab.c BUG

2012-06-07 Thread CF Adad
: Thursday, June 7, 2012 5:32 AM Subject: RE: Please help! AM35xx mm/slab.c BUG Hi , On Wed, Jun 06, 2012 at 13:21:23, CF Adad wrote: Thanks again.  I'm really starting to think the GPMC almost has to be contributing. Does adding cycle2cycle delay / bus turnaround prevent the issue ?, SMSC

Re: Please help! AM35xx mm/slab.c BUG

2012-06-06 Thread CF Adad
- Original Message - From: CF Adad cfa...@rocketmail.com To: Tony Lindgren t...@atomide.com Cc: linux-omap@vger.kernel.org linux-omap@vger.kernel.org Sent: Tuesday, June 5, 2012 12:29 PM Subject: Re: Please help! AM35xx mm/slab.c BUG Hi Tony, Thanks so much for the response!  All good

Re: Please help! AM35xx mm/slab.c BUG

2012-06-06 Thread Shilimkar, Santosh
On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 11:44 AM, CF Adad cfa...@rocketmail.com wrote: All, We've learned a few more things: 1.) We have found a way to get it to happen pretty consistently.  We simply run iperf in a loop using the EMAC port to some other device. 2.) The crash ONLY happens on our custom

Re: Please help! AM35xx mm/slab.c BUG

2012-06-06 Thread Tony Lindgren
* Shilimkar, Santosh santosh.shilim...@ti.com [120605 23:41]: I don't know the AMXX architecture that well but looking at the crash-log, am not sure GPMC should play in role here. What I think is, it is mostly memory corruption and can be caused by many reasons as Tony outlined. Bad GPMC

Re: Please help! AM35xx mm/slab.c BUG

2012-06-06 Thread CF Adad
2:36 AM Subject: Re: Please help! AM35xx mm/slab.c BUG On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 11:44 AM, CF Adad cfa...@rocketmail.com wrote: All, We've learned a few more things: 1.) We have found a way to get it to happen pretty consistently.  We simply run iperf in a loop using the EMAC port to some

Re: Please help! AM35xx mm/slab.c BUG

2012-06-06 Thread CF Adad
@vger.kernel.org Sent: Wednesday, June 6, 2012 3:10 AM Subject: Re: Please help! AM35xx mm/slab.c BUG * Shilimkar, Santosh santosh.shilim...@ti.com [120605 23:41]: I don't know the AMXX architecture that well but looking at the crash-log, am not sure GPMC should play in role here. What I think

Re: Please help! AM35xx mm/slab.c BUG

2012-06-06 Thread Tony Lindgren
* CF Adad cfa...@rocketmail.com [120606 00:55]: Do you folks know of a good reference for properly calculating these GPMC settings? In theory you just need to know the timings of connected components, then check which ones depend on cycles and which ones depend on time. Also take into

Re: Please help! AM35xx mm/slab.c BUG

2012-06-06 Thread Jarkko Nikula
my 2 cents. On 06/06/2012 11:41 AM, Tony Lindgren wrote: * CF Adad cfa...@rocketmail.com [120606 00:55]: Do you folks know of a good reference for properly calculating these GPMC settings? In theory you just need to know the timings of connected components, then check which ones depend

Re: Please help! AM35xx mm/slab.c BUG

2012-06-06 Thread CF Adad
; Shilimkar, Santosh santosh.shilim...@ti.com; linux-omap@vger.kernel.org linux-omap@vger.kernel.org Sent: Wednesday, June 6, 2012 6:37 AM Subject: Re: Please help! AM35xx mm/slab.c BUG my 2 cents. On 06/06/2012 11:41 AM, Tony Lindgren wrote: * CF Adad cfa...@rocketmail.com [120606 00:55]: Do you

Re: Please help! AM35xx mm/slab.c BUG

2012-06-05 Thread Tony Lindgren
* CF Adad cfa...@rocketmail.com [120604 23:47]: All, I'm **really** hoping someone out there can help us with this. My team has been working with the AM3517 for several months now, and we seem to be plagued every so often by what we have termed the slab bug.  In short, it looks

Re: Please help! AM35xx mm/slab.c BUG

2012-06-05 Thread CF Adad
Subject: Re: Please help! AM35xx mm/slab.c BUG * CF Adad cfa...@rocketmail.com [120604 23:47]: All, I'm **really** hoping someone out there can help us with this. My team has been working with the AM3517 for several months now, and we seem to be plagued every so often by what we have