linux-kernel - Re: Runtime warning due to commit 'ARM: OMAP: Catch callers of revision information prior to it being populated' in -next

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Date:	Tue, 19 Apr 2016 07:13:20 -0700
From:	Tony Lindgren <tony@...mide.com>
To:	Nishanth Menon <nm@...com>
Cc:	Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>,
	"linux-next@...r.kernel.org" <linux-next@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-omap <linux-omap@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org" 
	<linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: Runtime warning due to commit 'ARM: OMAP: Catch callers of
 revision information prior to it being populated' in -next

* Nishanth Menon <nm@...com> [160419 05:21]:
> On 04/18/2016 11:37 PM, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> 
> + linux-omap, linux-arm
> 
> > commit 'ARM: OMAP: Catch callers of revision information prior to it
> > being populated' results in a runtime warning on various non-OMAP
> > architectures. I have seen it with the following qemu tests.
> > 
> > arm:vexpress-a9:multi_v7_defconfig:vexpress-v2p-ca9
> > arm:vexpress-a15:multi_v7_defconfig:vexpress-v2p-ca15-tc1
> > arm:xilinx-zynq-a9:multi_v7_defconfig:zynq-zc702
> > arm:xilinx-zynq-a9:multi_v7_defconfig:zynq-zc706
> > arm:xilinx-zynq-a9:multi_v7_defconfig:zynq-zed
> > arm:midway:multi_v7_defconfig:ecx-2000
> > arm:smdkc210:multi_v7_defconfig:exynos4210-smdkv310
> > 
> > It is also reported by kernelci.org in at least one boot test for imx6q-cm-fx6.
> 
> Thanks for the report... :(

Oh crap, sorry about that. I'll revert that commit immediately.

> > The warning is as follows.
> > 
> > ------------[ cut here ]------------
> > WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 1 at arch/arm/mach-omap2/id.c:49 omap_rev+0x3c/0x50
> > Modules linked in:
> > CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 4.6.0-rc2-next-20160411 #1
> > Hardware name: SAMSUNG EXYNOS (Flattened Device Tree)
> > [<c030f970>] (unwind_backtrace) from [<c030b094>] (show_stack+0x10/0x14)
> > [<c030b094>] (show_stack) from [<c0585424>] (dump_stack+0x84/0xa4)
> > [<c0585424>] (dump_stack) from [<c0341774>] (__warn+0xd4/0x100)
> > [<c0341774>] (__warn) from [<c03417c0>] (warn_slowpath_null+0x20/0x28)
> > [<c03417c0>] (warn_slowpath_null) from [<c0324024>] (omap_rev+0x3c/0x50)
> > [<c0324024>] (omap_rev) from [<c1114a18>] (__omap4_sar_ram_init+0x8/0x88)
> > [<c1114a18>] (__omap4_sar_ram_init) from [<c0301e5c>] (do_one_initcall+0x3c/0x16c)
> > [<c0301e5c>] (do_one_initcall) from [<c1100ccc>] (kernel_init_freeable+0x70/0x1ec)
> > [<c1100ccc>] (kernel_init_freeable) from [<c0b495e4>] (kernel_init+0x8/0x110)
> > [<c0b495e4>] (kernel_init) from [<c0307f78>] (ret_from_fork+0x14/0x3c)
> > ---[ end trace cb88537fdc8fa200 ]---
> > 
> > Please have a look.
> 
> Tony,
> Should we get rid of omap_initcall callers(move them into
> board-generic call path or lower the check not to include default of 0?

Most of those will disappear when we drop the legacy booting support
for omap3. I would not touch those before then to avoid churn with
the legacy code.

Regards,

Tony