next/master boot: 265 boots: 17 failed, 243 passed with 4 offline, 1 conflict (next-20190717)

[Rob Clark]

On Wed, Jul 17, 2019 at 5:10 AM Mark Brown <broonie at kernel.org> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jul 17, 2019 at 04:27:56AM -0700, kernelci.org bot wrote:
>
> Today's -next fails to boot on a couple of apq8064 boards:
>
> > arm:
> >     qcom_defconfig:
> >         gcc-8:
> >             qcom-apq8064-cm-qs600: 1 failed lab
> >             qcom-apq8064-ifc6410: 1 failed lab
>
> In both cases it looks like the error handling when we fail to get the
> firmware for the GPU is broken, we get a crash in the initialization
> code shortly after failing to load some firmware:
>
> [    4.608279] msm 5100000.mdp: Direct firmware load for qcom/a300_pm4.fw failed with error -2
> [    4.614916] msm 5100000.mdp: [drm:adreno_request_fw] *ERROR* failed to load a300_pm4.fw
> [    4.623229] 8<--- cut here ---
> [    4.631111] Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000088
>
> ...
>
> [    4.665947] Workqueue: events deferred_probe_work_func
> [    4.670532] PC is at msm_open+0x64/0x90
> [    4.675656] LR is at _raw_write_unlock+0x20/0x4c
>
> ...
>
> [    4.949553] [] (msm_open) from [] (drm_file_alloc+0x134/0x21c)
> [    4.957703] [] (drm_file_alloc) from [] (drm_client_init+0xa8/0x124)
> [    4.965162] [] (drm_client_init) from [] (drm_fb_helper_init.part.0+0x30/0x3c)
> [    4.973411] [] (drm_fb_helper_init.part.0) from [] (msm_fbdev_init+0x50/0xb4)
> [    4.982173] [] (msm_fbdev_init) from [] (msm_drm_bind+0x560/0x638)
>
> Full details (including full boot logs) at:
>
>         https://kernelci.org/boot/id/5d2ede2359b514a54b49e91b/
>         https://kernelci.org/boot/id/5d2ede2759b514a54749e91d/


jfyi, Jordan tracked this down to needing:
https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/314397/

BR,
-R