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Dynamic loading of Overlays in 5.0.y

martinayotte
in Advanced users - Development

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I've done a discovery : when using current Armbian overlays in 5.0.y thru dynamic loading (aka : /sys/kernel/config/devices-tree/overlays) , although working, it produced the following warning in "dmesg" :

 

WARNING: memory leak will occur if overlay removed

 

Example, loading i2c overlays produce : 

[   80.494728] OF: overlay: WARNING: memory leak will occur if overlay removed, property: /aliases/i2c0
[   80.494745] OF: overlay: WARNING: memory leak will occur if overlay removed, property: /aliases/i2c1
[   80.494752] OF: overlay: WARNING: memory leak will occur if overlay removed, property: /aliases/i2c2
[   80.494789] OF: overlay: WARNING: memory leak will occur if overlay removed, property: /soc/i2c@1c2ac00/status
[   80.494798] OF: overlay: WARNING: memory leak will occur if overlay removed, property: /soc/i2c@1c2b000/clock-frequency
[   80.494805] OF: overlay: WARNING: memory leak will occur if overlay removed, property: /soc/i2c@1c2b000/status
[   80.494813] OF: overlay: WARNING: memory leak will occur if overlay removed, property: /soc/i2c@1c2b400/status

Googling reveal those links, it is all about overlays refactoring :

 

https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/10/5/146

https://elinux.org/images/8/86/Overlay_frank.pdf

 

So, we will have to upgrade those overlays when we get a change ... :unsure:

12 hours ago, Werner said:

4.20 has been archvied https://github.com/armbian/build/releases/tag/sunxi-4.20 so I assume 5.0 can be pushed directly to master. And if it breaks does not matter as it is dev.

 

Fair enough.  I know the branch conversation has happened more than once on the forum, and generally the added complexity hasnt been appealing.   

 

I suppose viewing armbian as a rolling release and embracing next as "mainline stable" supports the model?

1 hour ago, martinayotte said:

I've committed the initial stuff ! :rolleyes:

Now, I will pursue the patch cleaning ...

Let me know if you are unable to build 5.0.y on some Allwinner boards ...

 

Crashed on DTS patches for H6 OpiOnePlus

 

Spoiler

h/arm64/boot/dts/allwinner/overlay/sun50i-a64-spi-jedec-nor.dts:12.13-17.6: Warning (spi_bus_reg): /fragment@0/__overlay__/spiflash: SPI bus unit address format error, expected "0"
arch/arm64/boot/dts/allwinner/overlay/sun50i-a64-spi-jedec-nor.dts:26.13-31.6: Warning (spi_bus_reg): /fragment@1/__overlay__/spiflash: SPI bus unit address format error, expected "0"
  DTC     arch/arm64/boot/dts/allwinner/sun50i-h6-orangepi-one-plus.dtb
  HOSTCC  scripts/selinux/mdp/mdp
  DTC     arch/arm64/boot/dts/allwinner/sun50i-h6-orangepi-lite2.dtb
  DTC     arch/arm64/boot/dts/allwinner/sun50i-a64-nanopi-a64.dtb
  DTCO    arch/arm64/boot/dts/allwinner/overlay/sun50i-a64-spi-spidev.dtbo
arch/arm64/boot/dts/allwinner/sun50i-h6.dtsi:1006.16-1055.4: ERROR (duplicate_node_names): /thermal-zones: Duplicate node name
arch/arm64/boot/dts/allwinner/sun50i-h6.dtsi:324.22-333.5: ERROR (duplicate_node_names): /soc/efuse@3006000: Duplicate node name
arch/arm64/boot/dts/allwinner/sun50i-h6.dtsi:882.20-892.5: ERROR (duplicate_node_names): /soc/ths@5070400: Duplicate node name
ERROR: Input tree has errors, aborting (use -f to force output)
  DTCO    arch/arm64/boot/dts/allwinner/overlay/sun50i-a64-uart1.dtbo
scripts/Makefile.lib:304: recipe for target 'arch/arm64/boot/dts/allwinner/sun50i-h6-orangepi-one-plus.dtb' failed
make[2]: *** [arch/arm64/boot/dts/allwinner/sun50i-h6-orangepi-one-plus.dtb] Error 2
make[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
  DTCO    arch/arm64/boot/dts/allwinner/overlay/sun50i-a64-uart2.dtbo
  DTCO    arch/arm64/boot/dts/allwinner/overlay/sun50i-a64-uart3.dtbo
arch/arm64/boot/dts/allwinner/overlay/sun50i-a64-spi-spidev.dts:20.11-25.6: Warning (spi_bus_reg): /fragment@1/__overlay__/spidev: SPI bus unit address format error, expected "0"
arch/arm64/boot/dts/allwinner/overlay/sun50i-a64-spi-spidev.dts:34.11-39.6: Warning (spi_bus_reg): /fragment@2/__overlay__/spidev: SPI bus unit address format error, expected "0"
arch/arm64/boot/dts/allwinner/sun50i-h6.dtsi:1006.16-1055.4: ERROR (duplicate_node_names): /thermal-zones: Duplicate node name
arch/arm64/boot/dts/allwinner/sun50i-h6.dtsi:324.22-333.5: ERROR (duplicate_node_names): /soc/efuse@3006000: Duplicate node name
arch/arm64/boot/dts/allwinner/sun50i-h6.dtsi:882.20-892.5: ERROR (duplicate_node_names): /soc/ths@5070400: Duplicate node name
  DTCO    arch/arm64/boot/dts/allwinner/overlay/sun50i-a64-uart4.dtbo
ERROR: Input tree has errors, aborting (use -f to force output)
scripts/Makefile.lib:304: recipe for target 'arch/arm64/boot/dts/allwinner/sun50i-h6-orangepi-lite2.dtb' failed
make[2]: *** [arch/arm64/boot/dts/allwinner/sun50i-h6-orangepi-lite2.dtb] Error 2
  HOSTCC  scripts/pnmtologo
 



ill try some other boards.

34 minutes ago, martinayotte said:

Great ! Happy 5.0.y ! :D



totally!

 

Spoiler

lane@orangepioneplus:~$ sudo armbianmonitor -z
[sudo] password for lane: 
Preparing benchmark. Be patient please...

7-Zip (a) [64] 16.02 : Copyright (c) 1999-2016 Igor Pavlov : 2016-05-21
p7zip Version 16.02 (locale=C,Utf16=off,HugeFiles=on,64 bits,4 CPUs LE)

LE
CPU Freq:   626  1793  1798  1798  1798  1798  1798  1798  1798

RAM size:     991 MB,  # CPU hardware threads:   4
RAM usage:    882 MB,  # Benchmark threads:      4

                       Compressing  |                  Decompressing
Dict     Speed Usage    R/U Rating  |      Speed Usage    R/U Rating
         KiB/s     %   MIPS   MIPS  |      KiB/s     %   MIPS   MIPS

22:       2759   341    787   2685  |      71940   398   1541   6138
23:       2708   351    787   2760  |      66875   398   1454   5786
24:       2573   358    773   2767  |      64136   396   1421   5630
25:       1668   274    694   1905  |      61379   394   1387   5463
----------------------------------  | ------------------------------
Avr:             331    760   2529  |              397   1451   5754
Tot:             364   1105   4142

Monitoring output recorded while running the benchmark:

Time        CPU    load %cpu %sys %usr %nice %io %irq   CPU  C.St.
03:39:01: 1800MHz  0.03  17%   1%  11%   0%   3%   0% 49.7°C  0/7
03:39:06:  480MHz  0.02   0%   0%   0%   0%   0%   0% 49.9°C  0/7
03:39:11: 1800MHz  0.02   1%   0%   0%   0%   0%   0% 49.7°C  0/7
03:39:16: 1800MHz  0.42  59%   1%  57%   0%   0%   0% 69.3°C  0/7
03:39:21: 1320MHz  0.71  95%   0%  94%   0%   0%   0% 75.9°C  2/7
03:39:26: 1800MHz  0.97  87%   1%  85%   0%   0%   0% 74.0°C  0/7
03:39:32: 1800MHz  1.21  96%   0%  95%   0%   0%   0% 75.8°C  0/7
03:39:37: 1800MHz  1.44  80%   1%  78%   0%   0%   0% 74.2°C  0/7
03:39:42: 1320MHz  1.72  92%   1%  90%   0%   0%   0% 68.7°C  0/7
03:39:48: 1800MHz  1.91  95%   1%  94%   0%   0%   0% 71.1°C  2/7
03:39:54: 1800MHz  2.07  77%   1%  75%   0%   0%   0% 68.9°C  0/7
03:39:59: 1800MHz  2.23  86%   1%  84%   0%   0%   0% 75.5°C  2/7
03:40:04: 1800MHz  2.65  91%   1%  89%   0%   0%   0% 69.6°C  0/7
03:40:09: 1320MHz  2.76  96%   1%  94%   0%   0%   0% 77.0°C  2/7
Time        CPU    load %cpu %sys %usr %nice %io %irq   CPU  C.St.
03:40:27: 1800MHz  3.86  88%  27%  37%   0%  23%   0% 73.8°C  0/7
03:40:33: 1800MHz  3.71  76%   6%  69%   0%   0%   0% 73.4°C  0/7
 


 

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    NanoPi Neo2 (non-LTS) also running here with Kernel 5.0.1
    i2c0-overlay doesnt show a memory-leak in dmesg

    UTF8-charset doesnt seem to work right (lines around the menu) while using de-utf8

    [EDIT] also doesnt work on one of my Neo2 with 4.20.7-sunxi64, but one does show it right.
    and I copied the putty-session-settings...so putty shouldnt be the problem :(

    NanoPi_Neo2_Kernel_501.jpg

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    14 minutes ago, guidol said:

    i2c0-overlay doesnt show a memory-leak in dmesg

    The memory-leak issue is not when overlays are loaded by U-boot, but only when loaded dynamically using Overlay-FS, aka via /sys/kernel/config/device-tree/overlays/ from userspace, for example : 

    mkdir /sys/kernel/config/device-tree/overlays/myoverlay
cat myoverlay.dtbo > /sys/kernel/config/device-tree/overlays/myoverlay/dtbo
cat /sys/kernel/config/device-tree/overlays/myoverlay/status

     

    5 minutes ago, martinayotte said:

    The memory-leak issue is not when overlays are loaded by U-boot, but only when loaded dynamically using Overlay-FS, aka via /sys/kernel/config/device-tree/overlays/ from userspace,

    OK, I was thinking about the (dynamic) i2c0 overlay from armbian-config --> /boot/armbianEnv.txt

    Spoiler

    root@npi-neo2-24(192.168.6.24):/boot# more armbianEnv.txt
    verbosity=1
    console=serial
    overlay_prefix=sun50i-h5
    overlays=analog-codec i2c0 usbhost1 usbhost2
    rootdev=UUID=d58b2d2f-75c0-411e-b9b9-f5343f6bf276
    rootfstype=ext4
    usbstoragequirks=0x2537:0x1066:u,0x2537:0x1068:u
     

     

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