Gitlab runner timeout on evb-ast2600 ?

[Cédric Le Goater]

On 4/11/25 18:42, Tom Rini wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 11, 2025 at 05:26:55PM +0200, Cédric Le Goater wrote:
>> On 4/11/25 17:01, Tom Rini wrote:
>>> On Fri, Apr 11, 2025 at 09:23:59AM +0200, Cédric Le Goater wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> On 4/11/25 01:14, Tom Rini wrote:
>>>>> On Fri, Apr 11, 2025 at 08:07:15AM +0930, Joel Stanley wrote:
>>>>>> On Mon, 7 Apr 2025 at 23:25, Eugen Hristev <eugen.hristev at linaro.org> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hi everyone,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I keep getting an error on running the CI loop on -next on my tree :
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> https://source.denx.de/u-boot/custodians/u-boot-at91/-/jobs/1090517
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks for the report.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> ! _pytest.outcomes.Exit: Lab timeout: Marking connection bad - no other
>>>>>>> tests will run !
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Any clue ? It's been like this for few days. It doesn't look like a
>>>>>>> faulty patch.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I can't see that link you sent me, it 403s.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Do you have any other traces or information to share?
>>>>>
>>>>> It's been intermittent recently. I was able to put qemu + gdb together
>>>>> and see it's one of the early initcalls that fails and hang()s but
>>>>> didn't see why. You should be able to use commit 1f0281294d8b ("Merge
>>>>> patch series "Annotate switch/case fallthrough cases"") as a starting
>>>>> point of failure.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Do you have logs ?
>>>>
>>>> Things look ok from the QEMU side (latest 10.0.0-rc and 9.1) :
>>>>       uboot_build=/path/to/u-boot/
>>>>       flashsize=65536
>>>>       flash=./flash-ast2600-evb-uboot
>>>>       dd of=$flash bs=1K if=/dev/zero count=$flashsize
>>>>       dd of=$flash conv=notrunc bs=1K if=$uboot_build/spl/u-boot-spl.bin
>>>>       dd of=$flash conv=notrunc bs=1K if=$uboot_build/u-boot.img seek=64
>>>>       $ qemu-system-arm -M ast2600-evb -net nic,netdev=net0 -netdev user,id=net0 -nographic -snapshot -serial mon:stdio   -drive file=flash-ast2600-evb-uboot,format=raw,if=mtd
>>>>       qemu-system-arm: warning: nic ftgmac100.1 has no peer
>>>>       qemu-system-arm: warning: nic ftgmac100.2 has no peer
>>>>       qemu-system-arm: warning: nic ftgmac100.3 has no peer
>>>>       U-Boot SPL 2025.04-00921-gcb7555e93075 (Apr 11 2025 - 09:08:40 +0200)
>>>>       Trying to boot from RAM
>>>>       ## Checking hash(es) for config conf-1 ... OK
>>>>       ## Checking hash(es) for Image firmware-1 ... crc32+ OK
>>>>       ## Checking hash(es) for Image fdt-1 ... crc32+ OK
>>>>       U-Boot 2025.04-00921-gcb7555e93075 (Apr 11 2025 - 09:08:40 +0200)
>>>
>>> Please note that it's inconsistent about what commit fails. I would
>>> expect 1f0281294d8b in U-Boot to fail but I don't know about
>>> cb7555e93075.
>>>
>>> Also can you please check QEMU v8.2.0? That's what we're on, and I can
>>> try and test 9.1.3 or 10.0.0-rc and see if it's a QEMU problem instead.
>>> Thanks!
>>
>> Same result :
>>
>> qemu-system-arm -M ast2600-evb -net nic,netdev=net0 -netdev user,id=net0 -nographic -snapshot -serial mon:stdio   -drive file=flash-ast2600-evb-uboot,format=raw,if=mtd
>> qemu-system-arm: warning: nic ftgmac100.1 has no peer
>> qemu-system-arm: warning: nic ftgmac100.2 has no peer
>> qemu-system-arm: warning: nic ftgmac100.3 has no peer
>>
>> U-Boot SPL 2025.04-00881-g1f0281294d8b (Apr 11 2025 - 17:23:25 +0200)
>> Trying to boot from RAM
>> ## Checking hash(es) for config conf-1 ... OK
>> ## Checking hash(es) for Image firmware-1 ... crc32+ OK
>> ## Checking hash(es) for Image fdt-1 ... crc32+ OK
>>
>>
>> U-Boot 2025.04-00881-g1f0281294d8b (Apr 11 2025 - 17:23:25 +0200)
>>
>> Model: Aspeed BMC
>> DRAM:  already initialized, 1008 MiB (capacity:1024 MiB, VGA:64 MiB), ECC off
>> Core:  266 devices, 24 uclasses, devicetree: separate
>> WDT:   Started watchdog at 1e785000 with servicing every 1000ms (60s timeout)
>> MMC:   sdhci at 1e750100: 0
>> Loading Environment from SPIFlash... SF: Detected mx25u51245g with page size 256 Bytes, erase size 64 KiB, total 64 MiB
>> *** Warning - bad CRC, using default environment
>>
>> In:    serial at 1e784000
>> Out:   serial at 1e784000
>> Err:   serial at 1e784000
>> Net:   eth0: ftgmac at 1e660000, eth1: ftgmac at 1e680000, eth2: ftgmac at 1e670000, eth3: ftgmac at 1e690000
>> Hit any key to stop autoboot:  0
>> libfdt fdt_check_header(): FDT_ERR_BADMAGIC
>> Error loading kernel FIT image
>> => QEMU 8.2.10 monitor - type 'help' for more information
>> (qemu) q
>>
>>
>> What about the compiler ?
> 
> It's:
> https://www.kernel.org/pub/tools/crosstool/files/bin/x86_64/13.2.0/x86_64-gcc-13.2.0-nolibc-aarch64-linux.tar.xz
> 

1f0281294d8b fails to compile :

   cc1: error: unknown value 'generic-armv7-a' for '-mtune'

I use most of the time :

arm-none-eabi-gcc (Fedora 14.1.0-2.fc41) 14.1.0

Thanks,

C.