Error for l4android with Genode 14.11

[Stefan Kalkowski]

Hello Matthias,

On 02/02/2015 01:51 PM, Matthias Lange wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 02/02/2015 11:46 AM, Stefan Kalkowski wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On 01/28/2015 02:56 PM, li94575 wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>> When I run l4android (3.5) with the latest Genode, I got an error, the
>>> args for l4android in run script is "mem=512M console=ttys0
>>> l4x_rd=root-lc.gz".  
>>
>> I wonder that it compiles for you using Genode's latest release? The
>> recent e-mail by Zachary showed, and I can confirm that l4android
>> doesn't even compile.
>>
>> The simple reason is that we don't use l4android at all, and was not
>> tested it in the past :-(. I will investigate whether it is easy to fix
>> the current issues, and dependend on that provide a fix. However, the
>> current outdated version of L4android does not make sense from my point
>> of view. Therefore, we should either remove L4Android from the Genode
>> repository, or alternatively it needs to be upgraded and integrated into
>> our testing environment - which means resources that are bound to that
>> task. Any opinions from other developers? Or is somebody like
>> li94575 or Zachary willing to upgrade the current version?
> 
> Which version of the L4Android kernel are you using? We've updated it to
> 3.16 a couple of months ago.

We still use the original 3.5 kernel. We never upgraded L4Android in the
past.

> 
> However, if it is about to run Android, a recent L4Linux kernel should
> be capable as well, as the Android related subsystems have been moved
> back into mainline Linux a couple of revisions ago.

That is a most welcome decision. As soon as we have a recent Fiasco.OC
and L4Linux version, then L4android can be removed from our "ports-foc"
repository.

Thank you for the tip!

Regards
Stefan

> 
> Best,
> Matthias.
> 
>>
>>> Part of log is as follows:
>>>
>>> [init -> l4android] Main thread running, waiting...
>>> [init -> l4android] l4re_global_env:0
>>> [init -> l4android] Main memory size: 512MB
>>> unmapping of managed dataspaces not yet supported
>>> [init -> l4android] Main memory: virt:20000000 to 3fffffff [524288 KiB]
>>> [init -> l4android] Main memory: phys:0x00000000 to 0x20000000, size:
>>> 536870912
>>> [init -> l4android] Filling lower ptabs...
>>> [init -> l4android] Done (0 entries).
>>> [init -> l4android] l4x_register_pointer_section: addr = 01000000 size =
>>> 5242880
>>> [init -> l4android] text: virt: 1000000 to 14fffff [5120 KiB]
>>> [init -> l4android] Cannot determine physical address for dataspace Binary!
>>> [init -> l4android] error: failed to get physical address for 1000000.
>>> virtual void
>>> Genode::Signal_session_component::submit(Genode::signal_context_capability,
>>> unsigned int): invalid signal-contex capability
>>> virtual void Genode::Pager_activation_base::entry(): Could not resolve
>>> pf=3fffff000 ip=1000e88
>>>
>>> It seems that the virtual address(0x20000000 ~ 0x3fffffff) has not been
>>> mapped to actual physical address. So I compared the L4Linux support library
>>> with previous versions, I found the funtion "l4re_ma_alloc" (in
>>> ports-foc/src/lib/l4lx/l4_re_c_mem_alloc.cc) has changed, and l4android
>>> will use the
>>> function for memory allocation. Can somebody tells me why make that
>>> adjustment?  Is it the reason why l4android produces that error?
>>
>> Yes there were changes regarding the main memory allocation/mapping of
>> the L4Linux guest within the L4Re emulation library. Especially, it
>> changed that not all memory is allocated once, but gets allocated on
>> demand. Thereby prior patches to L4Linux need to be reverted.
>>
>> I've opened an issue at our issue tracker, let's discuss things there:
>>
>>   https://github.com/genodelabs/genode/issues/1390
>>
>> Regards
>> Stefan
>>
>>>
>>>
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