Downgrading to 3.1.0 doesn't help

so in summary, removing the enable-kvm cmdline option and adding -no-hpet
seems to allow Xenomai to startup at least. Will now start the latency
tests, ect...

Rob Miller
[email protected]
(919)721-3339


On Wed, Oct 23, 2019 at 3:52 PM Rob Miller <[email protected]> wrote:

> I found that if I remove the -enable-kvm and add -no-hpet, I'm able to get
> Xenomi up-n-running on the stock xenomai-images. Adding -no-hpet alone
> didn't help. Also, when the enable-kvm is disabled, the bootup time is
> ~10-20 slower, but does boot.
>
> Further, just removing the enable-kvm flag, results in the stock image
> never booting...or at least I gave up after 5 min's waiting.
>
> I will try to downgrade QEMU to 3.1.0
>
> Rob Miller
> [email protected]
> (919)721-3339
>
>
> On Wed, Oct 23, 2019 at 12:07 PM Rob Miller <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> Mine a little newer
>>
>> QEMU emulator version 4.0.50
>> Copyright (c) 2003-2019 Fabrice Bellard and the QEMU Project developers
>>
>> Rob Miller
>> [email protected]
>> (919)721-3339
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Oct 23, 2019 at 9:26 AM Gylstorff Quirin via Xenomai <
>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 10/23/19 2:48 PM, Rob Miller via Xenomai wrote:
>>> > Interestingly, I also get the exact same failure on the xenomai-images
>>> > pulled from the git repo.
>>> >
>>> > the errors start right off the bat with:
>>> >
>>> > tsc: Fast calibration failed
>>> > tsc: Unable to calibrate against PIT
>>> > tsc: No reference (HPET/PMTIMER) available
>>> > ..
>>> > ..
>>> > clocksource: hpet: mask: 0xffffffff max_cycles: 0xffffffff,
>>> max_idle_ns:
>>> > 19112604467 ns
>>> > hpet clock event registered
>>> > tsc: Fast calibration failed
>>> > tsc: Unable to calibrate against PIT
>>> > tsc: No reference (HPET/PMTIMER) available
>>> > tsc: Marking TSC unstable due to could not calculate TSC khz
>>> <---
>>> > kiss of death I believe as Cobalt sees the flag and errors out
>>> > ..
>>> > ..
>>> > hpet0: at MMIO 0xfed00000, IRQs 2, 8, 0
>>> > hpet0: 3 comparators , 64-bit 100.000000 MHz counter
>>> > clocksource: Switched to clocksource hpet
>>> > ..
>>> > ..
>>> > [Xenomai] scheduling class idle registered
>>> > [Xenomai] scheduling class weak registered
>>> > [Xenomai] scheduling class tp registered
>>> > [Xenomai] scheduling class pss registered
>>> > [Xenomai] scheduling class quota registered
>>> > [Xenomai] scheduling class rt registered
>>> > I-pipe: high-resolution clock not working               <--- I believe
>>> this
>>> > looks at the TSC marked as being unstable flag set above and bails out
>>> > [Xenomai] init failed, code -19
>>> >
>>> > I dug into the unstable issues on my VM (ie: non xenomai-images repo),
>>> and
>>> > found that tsc_read_refs(*ref, hpet) is where the problem lies in
>>> either
>>> > whether using using hpet or not, either the returned ref value is 0
>>> (when
>>> > hpet == 1), or the amount of time is took to read from PM (hpet == 0)
>>> took
>>> > forever (ie: 100000+ cycles) which is at least 2x the SMI_THRESHOLD
>>> vlaue
>>> > that is allowed in the code. My guess is that even when using the stock
>>> > xenomai-images directly, I'll have the same situation.
>>> >
>>> > I read about SMI issues, and given the cycle allowance for SMI
>>> > interruptions in the tsc_read_refs() functio, I focused on SMI. In my
>>> VM
>>> > (ie: non-stock images), I set the linux cmdline option
>>> > xenomai.smi=disabled, but no love there either.
>>> >
>>> > Given that both my VM and the stock images fail, I'm now thinking QEMU
>>> > version, or underlying host CPU issues, or TBD, is the issue, and
>>> thought
>>> > I'd first ask the community for guidance as to how to proceed.
>>> >
>>> > Thoughts ideas will be greatly appreciated.
>>> >
>>> What qemu version do you use?
>>>
>>> For our tests we use
>>> QEMU emulator version 3.1.0 (Debian 1:3.1+dfsg-8+deb10u2).
>>>
>>>
>>> Quirin
>>>
>>> --
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>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>

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