rtems-tester

[Ric Claus]

Hello All,

  First, I apologize for the length of this message.  I hope you can bear with me as there are several points I’d like some help with.

  I’m following https://git.rtems.org/rtems-tools/tree/doc/rtems-tester.txt to try out the xilinx_zynq_a9_qemu RTEMS BSP built with --enable-smp in the configure line.

I found the use of the term BSP in this document confusing.  "./rtems-test —list-bsps" lists names that are different from those in the RTEMS tree.  For example, modifying the example as follows won’t work:

$ ../../rtems.git/configure —target=arm-rtems4.11 \
                    --enable-tests --enable-rtemsbsp=xilinx_zynq_a9_qemu_smp

Maybe some clarification here might help the next person.

Next, for me: 

$ arm-rtems4.11-run arm-rtems4.11/c/xilinx_zynq_a9_qemu/testsuites/samples/hello/hello.exe

returns nothing, and the GDB example returns:

(gdb) tar sim
Connected to the simulator.
(gdb) load
Loading section .start, size 0x888 vma 0x0
Loading section .text, size 0x28b2c vma 0x8c0
Loading section .init, size 0xc vma 0x293ec
Loading section .fini, size 0xc vma 0x293f8
Loading section .rodata, size 0x1380 vma 0x29408
Loading section .ARM.exidx, size 0x8 vma 0x2a788
Loading section .eh_frame, size 0x74 vma 0x2a790
Loading section .init_array, size 0x4 vma 0x2a804
Loading section .fini_array, size 0x4 vma 0x2a808
Loading section .jcr, size 0x4 vma 0x2a80c
Loading section .data, size 0x970 vma 0x102800
Start address 0x40
Transfer rate: 1411616 bits in <1 sec.
(gdb) r
Starting program: /u1/home/claus/development/rtems/bld/xilinx_zynq/a9_qemu/arm-rtems4.11/c/xilinx_zynq_a9_qemu/testsuites/samples/hello/hello.exe
[Inferior 1 (process 42000) exited with code 060]

Can someone explain why, please?  Should this work?  

On the other hand, QEMU works and gives:

qemu-system-arm -no-reboot -serial null -serial mon:stdio -net none -nographic -M xilinx-zynq-a9 -m 256M -smp cpus=1 -kernel $(find bld/xilinx_zynq/a9_qemu/ -name hello.exe)
Warning: nic cadence_gem.0 has no peer
Warning: nic cadence_gem.1 has no peer


*** BEGIN OF TEST HELLO WORLD ***
Hello World
*** END OF TEST HELLO WORLD ***

However, with 2 cores enabled:

qemu-system-arm -no-reboot -serial null -serial mon:stdio -net none -nographic -M xilinx-zynq-a9 -m 256M -smp cpus=2 -kernel $(find bld/xilinx_zynq/a9_qemu/ -name hello.exe)

it fails with:

Number of SMP cpus requested (2), exceeds max cpus supported by machine `xilinx-zynq-a9' (1)

I verified as per the "SMP support for Raspberry Pi 2” thread that —enable-smp was really set during configure, the cpuopts.h files have "#define RTEMS_SMP 1”, and ZYNQ_CPUS = 2 in $DEV_ROOT/rtems/bld/a9_qemu/arm-rtems4.11/c/xilinx_zynq_a9_qemu/lib/libbsp/arm/xilinx-zynq/Makefile and config.status.  ticker.exe runs and smp01.exe produces no output in QEMU, when I leave the -smp parameter off.  What is the status of the ZYNQ BSPs?  Is the 2nd core nominally started, or is that something I need to work on?  Why is QEMU thinking there is only one core configured?

Next, I tried to adapt the instructions in rtems-tester.txt to use QEMU:

$DEV_ROOT/rtems/test/rtems-tools.git/tester/rtems-test \
--log=log_xilinx_zynq_a9_qemu \
--rtems-bsp=xilinx_zynq_a9_qemu_smp \
--rtems-tools=$DEV_ROOT/rtems/4.11 \
$DEV_ROOT/rtems/bld/xilinx_zynq/a9_qemu/arm-rtems4.11/c/xilinx_zynq_a9_qemu/testsuites

Initially, this failed with:

RTEMS Testing - Tester, v0.2.0
error: BSP script not found: xilinx_zynq_a9_qemu

I think there is an incorrect line in:

$DEV_ROOT/rtems/test/rtems-tools.git/tester/rtems/testing/bsps/xilinx_zynq_a9_qemu_smp.mc

realview_pbx_a9_qemu should be xilinx_zynq_a9_qemu, right?

Once I made that change, the tester seems to run, but most tests fail with:

error: qemu.cfg:65: execute failed: qemu-system-arm -no-reboot -monitor none -serial stdio -nographic -net none -M xilinx-zynq-a9 -m 256M -smp cpus=2 -kernel bld/xilinx_zynq/a9_qemu/arm-rtems4.11/c/xilinx_zynq_a9_qemu/testsuites/fstests/fsbdpart01/fsbdpart01.exe: exit-code:1
warning: switched to dry run due to errors

Are these all due to the "-smp cpus=2” parameter?

  Thanks very much for any help you can give me!

  Cheers,
          Ric