[Barrelfish-users] Problems when booting Barrelfish on SCC

Stefan Kästle stefan.kaestle at inf.ethz.ch
Sun Apr 22 11:33:52 CEST 2012


Hi,

can you try replacing
module  /scc/sbin/spawnd boot bootscc=0-1
with
module  /scc/sbin/spawnd boot bootscc=1
and try it again?

The boot-up of core 0 is implicit - we do not specify it as a spwand
argument.

Cheers,
 Stefan

On 04/22/2012 11:12 AM, Shi Jinghao (???) wrote:
> Hi, 
>
> I'm trying to boot barrelfish on SCC. I've managed to compile the
> source, get barrelfish0.obj and barrelfish48.mt <http://barrelfish48.mt>.
> Then I use the bootscc.sh to boot it. For test, I just want to boot
> core 0 and core 1, but a weird problem
> happens: core 1 is trying to boot core 0. Here is the output after
> system start.
>
> ----------------------OUTPUT START ------------------------------------
> Kernel starting at address 0x80100000
> hku at ubuntu:~/fish/hg.barrelfish.org/build$
> <http://hg.barrelfish.org/build$> My APIC ID: 0
> Barrelfish CPU driver starting on scc core 0
> init: invoked as: init 2097152
> Spawning memory server (scc/sbin/mem_serv)...
> Spawning monitor (scc/sbin/monitor)...
> starting monitor as 'scc/sbin/monitor 327680 '
> monitor: invoked as: scc/sbin/monitor 327680
> RAM allocator initialised, 1612 MB (of 1628 MB) available
> Spawning chips on core 0
> Spawning /scc/sbin/ramfsd on core 0
> Spawning /scc/sbin/spawnd on core 0
> Spawning /scc/sbin/startd on core 0
> 0 chips: client waiting for ramfs
> ramfsd.0: pre-populating from boot image...
> 0 chips: client waiting for ramfs
> ramfsd.0: ready
> 0 chips: notifying client about ramfs
> 0 chips: notifying client about ramfs
> kernel 0: Allocating RAM at 0x80000000 uninitialized
> kernel 0: Allocating RAM at 0x80010000 uninitialized
> spawnd.0: coreid 0 is arch id 0
> spawnd.0: coreid 1 is arch id 1
> 0 chips: client waiting for all_spawnds_up
> Monitor 0: booting scc core 1 as '/scc/sbin/cpu'
> kernel 0: Allocating RAM at 0x80020000 uninitialized
> Kernel starting at address 0x80100000
> My APIC ID: 1
> Barrelfish CPU driver starting on scc core 1
> init: invoked as: init 2097152
> Spawning memory server (scc/sbin/mem_serv)...
> Spawning monitor (scc/sbin/monitor)...
> starting monitor as 'scc/sbin/monitor 327680 '
> monitor: invoked as: scc/sbin/monitor 327680
> RAM allocator initialised, 1612 MB (of 1628 MB) available
> Spawning chips on core 1
> Spawning /scc/sbin/ramfsd on core 1
> Spawning /scc/sbin/spawnd on core 1
> Spawning /scc/sbin/startd on core 1
> 0 chips: client waiting for ramfs
> ramfsd.1: pre-populating from boot image...
> 0 chips: client waiting for ramfs
> ramfsd.1: ready
> 0 chips: notifying client about ramfs
> 0 chips: notifying client about ramfs
> kernel 1: Allocating RAM at 0x84000000 uninitialized
> kernel 1: Allocating RAM at 0x84010000 uninitialized
> spawnd.1: coreid 0 is arch id 0
> spawnd.1: coreid 1 is arch id 1
> 0 chips: client waiting for all_spawnds_up
> Monitor 1: booting scc core 0 as '/scc/sbin/cpu'
> ********* Why would core 1 want to boot core 0 ? **************
> kernel 1: Allocating RAM at 0x84020000 uninitialized
> kernel 1 PANIC! kernel assertion "rck_get_coreid() == 0" failed at
> ../kernel/arch/scc/rck.c:876
> kernel 1: exception 3 (error code 0x0): breakpoint
> On behalf of: monitor
> Faulting instruction pointer (or following instruction): 0x8010a7bf
> (0x 10a7bf in binary)
> EAX 0x80118000 EBX 0x80116e88 ECX 0x0 EDX 0x805202c0 ESP 0x80920a08
> Top o' stack:
> 0x8010a7bf 0x2 0x8 0x10 0x3 0x0 0x8010a7bf 0x8 0x2 0x80520180
> 0x80116e88 0x80920a44 0x8010c612 0x80116e88 0x210d6000 0x80920a64
> 0x8010c64b 0x801164a0 0x80114c10 0x80114b55 
> No GDB backend
> --------------- OUTPUT END ------------------------------
>
> As I see it, core 1 seems thought that it's the bsp core (while it's
> not) so it's responsible to boot other cores. But I fail to see why
> core 1 would think like that.
>
> Any ideas on this? Thanks in advance.
>
> Regards,
> Jinghao
>
> FYI, this is my menu.lst.scc
>
>   1 timeout 0
>   2 
>   3 # spawnd is used to control which cpus are booted
>   4 #
>   5 # "spawnd boot" will use the skb and pci to figure out and
>   6 #  boot all cores in the machine
>   7 #
>   8 # "spawnd boot bootscc=1-6" will not use the skb and
>   9 # boot the list of cores passed as argument.
>  10 # The hardware id of the cores to boot should be specified.
>  11 # This list may not include the bsp core id.
>  12 
>  13 title   Barrelfish
>  14 root    (nd)
>  15 kernel  /scc/sbin/cpu loglevel=4
>  16 module  /scc/sbin/cpu
>  17 module  /scc/sbin/init
>  18 
>  19 # Domains spawned by init
>  20 module  /scc/sbin/mem_serv
>  21 module  /scc/sbin/monitor
>  22 
>  23 module  /scc/sbin/chips boot
>  24 module  /scc/sbin/ramfsd boot
>  25 module  /scc/sbin/spawnd boot bootscc=0-1
>  26 module  /scc/sbin/startd boot
>  27 
>  28 #module /scc/sbin/examples/xmpl-hello
>  29 
>  30 # modules needed to start the networking
>  31 # module  /scc/sbin/eMAC core=0 device=2
>  32 # module  /scc/sbin/netd core=0 cardname=eMAC2_0
>  33 # module  /scc/sbin/eMAC core=1
>  34 # module  /scc/sbin/netd core=1 cardname=eMAC2_1
>  35 
>  36 # Test for network throughput
>  37 # module  /scc/sbin/netthroughput core=1 /nfs
> nfs://10.110.4.41/shared <http://10.110.4.41/shared>
> /nfs/pravin/testfile.txt
>  38 
>  39 # For webserver
>  40 # module  /scc/sbin/webserver core=1 eMAC2_1 10.110.4.41
> /shared/pravin/sw
>  41 
>  42 # RCK memory map
>  43 # Everything up til VGA is private RAM (maybe we want to throw it
> away)
>  44 mmap    map 0x0     0xa000      2
>  45 # Everything after VGA is private RAM (we also live in this area)
>  46 mmap    map 0xe800      0x26ff1800  1
>  47 # Shared RAM (over all MCs) in the middle of address space
>  48 #mmap   map 0x80000000  0x4000000   1
>  49 mmap    map     0x80000000      0x40000000      1
>  50 # At the very end we have some platform memory (bootup EEPROM)
>  51 mmap    map 0xfffc0000  0x40000     2
>
>
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