Bug 9125

Summary: arm64 dmesg test fails show dmi Firmware registration failed
Product: [Build System, Metadata & Runtime] OE-Core Reporter: Aníbal Limón <anibal.limon>
Component: kernelAssignee: Bruce Ashfield <bruce.ashfield>
Status: RESOLVED NOTABUG QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: Medium CC: alejandro.hernandez, dvhart, sgw, tom.zanussi
Version: 2.0   
Target Milestone: 2.4 M4   
Hardware: x86   
OS: Multiple   
URL: http://errors.yoctoproject.org/Errors/Details/34557/
Whiteboard:
OS type for building Yocto: --- Type of Regression: ---
Verified: Documentation change: No (bug/feature does not impact docs)

Description Aníbal Limón 2016-02-16 21:12:38 UTC 
AB testing on master fails when runs dmesg test it founds [1][2]:

Central error: [    2.015897] dmi: Firmware registration failed.
| ***********************
| [    1.579988] raid6: neonx1   xor()    81 MB/s
| [    1.651385] raid6: neonx2   gen()   156 MB/s
| [    1.722430] raid6: neonx2   xor()    62 MB/s
| [    1.793460] raid6: neonx4   gen()   160 MB/s
| [    1.864489] raid6: neonx4   xor()    83 MB/s
| [    1.935760] raid6: neonx8   gen()   157 MB/s
| [    2.006986] raid6: neonx8   xor()    69 MB/s
| [    2.007645] raid6: using algorithm int64x2 gen() 824 MB/s
| [    2.008329] raid6: .... xor() 377 MB/s, rmw enabled
| [    2.009045] raid6: using intx1 recovery algorithm
| [    2.015897] dmi: Firmware registration failed.
| [    2.037728] clocksource: Switched to clocksource arch_sys_counter
| [    2.338334] NET: Registered protocol family 2
| [    2.345384] TCP established hash table entries: 4096 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
| [    2.346015] TCP bind hash table entries: 4096 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
| [    2.346608] TCP: Hash tables configured (established 4096 bind 4096)
| [    2.347926] UDP hash table entries: 256 (order: 1, 8192 bytes)
| [    2.348404] UDP-Lite hash table entries: 256 (order: 1, 8192 bytes)
| [    2.350902] NET: Registered protocol family 1
| [    2.359005] RPC: Registered named UNIX socket transport module.
| [    2.359396] RPC: Registered udp transport module.
| 
| ***********************


[1] http://errors.yoctoproject.org/Errors/Details/34557/
[2] https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/main/builders/nightly-arm64/builds/290/steps/Running%20Sanity%20Tests/logs/stdio
Comment 1 Richard Purdie 2016-02-18 15:45:39 UTC 
We whitelisted the error in http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit.cgi/poky/commit/?id=152914f2983c5d69001de1d46ce99547fa1e75fe
Comment 2 Bruce Ashfield 2016-03-21 23:16:37 UTC 
I put this in 2.2, since this is as expected in the current configuration and 4.4 kernel.

Unless we can find someone with dedicated cycles to look into this for 2.1, my hands are full with other issues.
Comment 3 Bruce Ashfield 2017-08-15 14:16:42 UTC 
Moving to m4 and it can be checked against the 4.12 kernel, which arrives in M3.
Comment 4 Bruce Ashfield 2017-08-17 03:11:50 UTC 
Looking at 4.12, this is expected for the qemu runs of the machine type we use for arm64. I'm resolving this as "not a bug". 

The whitelist we are using is the right thing to do.