Boot regression on am335x-hs-evm

Tom Rini trini at konsulko.com
Fri Jun 10 14:16:10 CEST 2022


On Fri, Jun 10, 2022 at 11:59:23AM +0200, LABBE Corentin wrote:
> Hello
> 
> I hit a boot regression on am335x-hs-evm.
> On current uboot, the board does not boot at all.
> This board uses both MLO and u-boot.img and only MLO was the problem.
> 
> After a bisect, I found that e41651fffda7 ("dm: Support parent devices with of-platdata") was the problem.
> Reverting this patch lead to a success boot.
> 
> I cutdown the revert to a minimal fix:
> --- a/drivers/core/lists.c
> +++ b/drivers/core/lists.c
> @@ -120,6 +120,7 @@ int lists_bind_drivers(struct udevice *parent, bool pre_reloc_only)
>                 int ret;
>  
>                 ret = bind_drivers_pass(parent, pre_reloc_only);
> +               return ret;
>                 if (!ret)
>                         break;
>                 if (ret != -EAGAIN && !result)
> 
> I cannot debug further since printf() is not working at this stage.
> 
> Since I wanted to know which error was badly handled, I tried to do this:
> --- a/arch/arm/mach-omap2/sec-common.c
> +++ b/arch/arm/mach-omap2/sec-common.c
> @@ -111,6 +111,8 @@ static u32 find_sig_start(char *image, size_t size)
>         return 0;
>  }
>  
> +extern int errorcount;
> +
>  int secure_boot_verify_image(void **image, size_t *size)
>  {
>         int result = 1;
> @@ -178,6 +180,7 @@ auth_exit:
>          * via YMODEM. This is done to avoid disturbing the YMODEM serial
>          * protocol transactions.
>          */
> +       printf("ERRORCOUNT %d\n", errorcount);
>         if (!(IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_SPL_BUILD) &&
>               IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_SPL_YMODEM_SUPPORT) &&
>               spl_boot_device() == BOOT_DEVICE_UART))
> --- a/drivers/core/lists.c
> +++ b/drivers/core/lists.c
> @@ -20,6 +20,10 @@
>  #include <fdtdec.h>
>  #include <linux/compiler.h>
>  
> +static int _errorcount;
> +int errorlist[1024];
> +int errorcount;
> +
>  struct driver *lists_driver_lookup_name(const char *name)
>  {
>         struct driver *drv =
> @@ -120,8 +124,9 @@ int lists_bind_drivers(struct udevice *parent, bool pre_reloc_only)
>                 int ret;
>  
>                 ret = bind_drivers_pass(parent, pre_reloc_only);
> -               if (!ret)
> -                       break;
> +               errorlist[_errorcount] = ret;
> +               _errorcount++;
> +               errorcount = _errorcount;
>                 if (ret != -EAGAIN && !result)
>                         result = ret;
>         }
> 
> But errorcount is always 0 which is puzzling me since according to my think, lists_bind_drivers() is ran before secure_boot_verify_image().
> 
> Any idea on how to debug further ?

You should be able to enable DEBUG_UART and get output that way.  But
it's likely something related to the space constraints of the HS chip
rather than GP.

-- 
Tom
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