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Old 08-05-2013, 12:41 PM   #1
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[KUALette] Hardware Report

This is a corrected and extended function button for reporting the K5 hardware environment.

  • Fixes some typo's in version 1.0
  • Reports on the hardware board details (for troubleshooting things).
  • Reports on the battery condition from the kernel's /sys/devices tree.


Tested on Kpw, should also work on Kindle Touch but not tested.

Un-archiving the zip file will create a directory 'HardWare' with contents and a sub-tree (same as other KUAL buttons).

Copy the 'HardWare' folder, and its sub-tree into your */extensions directory for KUAL (same as other KUAL buttons).

If you should find a file named: '1' in */extensions/HardWare/bin, that file can be safely deleted. It is the result of the typos in version-1.0.

Titled as a "KUALette" because there is no 'upstream source' - its all scripting, what you see in the files is all there is (plus the lab126 functions it calls).

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Hardware Version Report
  Board: celeste
  Revision: 22
  Platform: yoshime3

Battery Status Report
  Battery ID: 10
  Battery capacity: 99%
  Charging voltage: 4190 mv.
  Charging current: 112 ma.
  Current charge: 1376 maH.
  Last measured discharge: 1386 ma.
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Old 08-06-2013, 11:13 AM   #3
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Kernel memory corruption

This seems to be occurring more often than it should.

Well, in point of fact, it should **never** happen but in the Kindle kernels it is a known problem (according to lab126's own comments in the log writer functions).

Today's challenge -
Script a corruption detector for this hardware reporter.

This problem was fixed back in the days of the version 2.5.x kernel, but it seems to have gotten "un-fixed" in the Amazon kernel build.
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@knc1: Huh. Incidentally, the 2.5 -> 3.x 'update' was when they switched from a vanilla/freescale kernel to vanilla+rt/freescale kernel (and all hell broke lose for the full lifecycle of the 3.0.x updates, until they finally stopped trying to use an rt preempt kernel with a host of probably not that pretty 3rd party modules).

I haven't seen a PREEMPT kernel build since, although they still use a kernel at least based on the -RT patchset.
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@knc1: Huh. incidentally, the 2.5 -> 3.x 'update' was when they switched from a vanilla/freescale kernel to vanilla+rt/freescale kernel (and all hell broke lose for the full lifecycle of the 3.0.x updates, until they finally stopped trying to use an rt preempt kernel with a host of probably not that pretty 3rd party modules).

I haven't seen a PREEMPT kernel build since, although they still use a kernel at least based on the -RT patchset.
My bad again -
**Kernel** version 2.5.x not Amazon firmware version 2.5.y, sorry, again.

That was a loooong time ago as time passes on kernel.org

and a ps:
In the -RT kernels from Amazon that still have the .config info compiled in - lab126 has the RT stuff disabled in the config.

Duh...
No telling what that did, patching the kernel and then "disabling" the new features. I bet it left "cruff" all over the source code.

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@knc1: Yeah, they did disable most of the RT preempt stuff in the end (3.1), but the -RT kernel touches a lot of things, and I don't think everything's 'gone'. I see the softirq kernel threads, for example, which IIRC were (still are? I though it was merged at one point :?) an -RT thing.

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@NiLuJe: I am agreeing with you, that is probably not the most solid kernel build Amazon ever shipped.
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This seems to be occurring more often than it should.

Well, in point of fact, it should **never** happen but in the Kindle kernels it is a known problem (according to lab126's own comments in the log writer functions).

Today's challenge -
Script a corruption detector for this hardware reporter.

This problem was fixed back in the days of the version 2.5.x kernel, but it seems to have gotten "un-fixed" in the Amazon kernel build.
Sorry folks, that isn't going to happen.

The date/time stamps on kernel events have been turned off in 5.3.3 and 5.3.4 (at least, maybe others).
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@NiLuJe: How many times does USBnet-0.9.N run dropbear?
Code:
root      2853  0.0  0.1   1672   404 ?        SNs  16:23   0:00 /mnt/us/usbnet/bin/busybox telnetd -F
root      2860  0.0  0.1   1964   508 ?        SNs  16:23   0:00 /usr/bin/dropbear -P /mnt/us/usbnet/run/sshd.pid  -n -b /dev/null
root      4083  0.2  0.3   2032   872 ?        SNs  17:35   0:00 /usr/bin/dropbear -P /mnt/us/usbnet/run/sshd.pid  -n -b /dev/null
Is that one "master" thread plus one thread per connection?

Code:
[root@kindle kernel]# who -a
LOGIN           ttymxc0         01:52   Aug  6 15:57:38  
root            pts/0           00:00   Aug  6 16:11:14  192.168.15.201:37316
root            pts/0           00:00   Aug  6 17:35:16  192.168.15.201

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Sorry folks, that isn't going to happen.

The date/time stamps on kernel events have been turned off in 5.3.3 and 5.3.4 (at least, maybe others).
I lied, it is going to happen:

FLAG=$(cat /sys/module/printk/parameters/time)
if FLAG == 'N' then
dmesg -c
echo 'Y' > /sys/module/printk/parameters/time
fi

Or, something like that to turn on the kernel message time stamps.
Code:
[root@kindle parameters]# echo 'Y' > time
[root@kindle parameters]# dmesg
[  101.048759] KERNEL: I pmic: PWRON1 event:
[  101.246992] cyttsp: I cyttsp_proc_write::command=unlock:
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@knc1: Yep, one master process, and a fork for each connection. OpenSSH does the same, except the child processes have a more verbose name .

Code:
root      3387  0.0  0.2   3180   756 ?        Ss   20:00   0:00 /usr/sbin/sshd
root      5602  2.6  0.6   5892  1748 ?        Ss   20:25   0:00  \_ sshd: root@pts/0 
root      5606  0.0  0.2   2432   624 pts/0    Ss   20:25   0:00      \_ -sh
root      5609  0.0  0.3   2604   956 pts/0    R+   20:26   0:00          \_ ps faux
EDIT: Got my K4 out, so here it is for legacy devices:

Code:
source /etc/rc.d/functions && echo "$(productid) @ rev $(hwrevision) ($(hwbuildid) build)"
(Sourceing /etc/rc.d/features might be enough)

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Kernel memory corruption

Maybe, maybe not . . . .

There is a definite pattern here:
Code:
[root@kindle root]# dmesg
[  101.048759] KERNEL: I pmic: PWRON1 event:
[  101.246992] cyttsp: I cyttsp_proc_write::command=unlock:
[  164.429048] cyttsp: I cyttsp_proc_write::command=lock:
[   69.146976] KERNEL: I aplite_charger: Restart charging:
[  345.405187] KERNEL: I aplite_charger: Battery full Stop charging:
[  184.179650] KERNEL: I aplite_charger: Restart charging:
[  460.437894] KERNEL: I aplite_charger: Battery full Stop charging:
[  269.212394] KERNEL: I aplite_charger: Restart charging:
[    8.599683] KERNEL: I aplite_charger: Battery full Stop charging:
[  354.245148] KERNEL: I aplite_charger: Restart charging:
[   63.632433] KERNEL: I aplite_charger: Battery full Stop charging:
[  439.277848] KERNEL: I aplite_charger: Restart charging:
[  148.665061] KERNEL: I aplite_charger: Battery full Stop charging:
[  524.350571] KERNEL: I aplite_charger: Restart charging:
[  233.737835] KERNEL: I aplite_charger: Battery full Stop charging:
[   42.512368] KERNEL: I aplite_charger: Restart charging:
[  318.770530] KERNEL: I aplite_charger: Battery full Stop charging:
[  127.545076] KERNEL: I aplite_charger: Restart charging:
[  245.636135] aplite_charger: I pmic:faulti:sense_0=0x200:battery dies/charger times out.
[  339.794269] PM: Syncing filesystems ... done.
[  339.862853] Freezing user space processes ... (elapsed 0.00 seconds) done.
[  339.866307] Freezing remaining freezable tasks ... (elapsed 0.00 seconds) done.
[  339.867194] Suspending console(s) (use no_console_suspend to debug)
[  339.868346] cyttsp_suspend: Enter
[  339.888562] WiFi chip powered down
[  339.889415] PM: suspend of devices complete after 21.077 msecs
[  339.889478] kernel: I PM:suspend:duration=21.077:
[  339.890472] PM: late suspend of devices complete after 0.925 msecs
[  339.890530] kernel: I PM:latesuspend:duration=0.925:
[  339.935129] PM: early resume of devices complete after 0.270 msecs
[  339.935206] kernel: I PM:earlyresume:duration=0.270:
[  339.988619] WiFi chip powered on
[  340.123421] mmc0: queuing CIS tuple 0x01 length 3
[  340.130823] mmc0: queuing CIS tuple 0x1a length 5
[  340.134048] mmc0: queuing CIS tuple 0x1b length 8
[  340.134704] mmc0: queuing CIS tuple 0x14 length 0
[  340.296101] PM: resume of devices complete after 360.528 msecs
[  340.296117] kernel: I PM:resume:duration=360.528:
[  340.296276] Restarting tasks ... done.
[  340.701503] g_ether gadget: high speed config #1: CDC Ethernet (ECM)
[  342.290615] Battery: Resume - TimeSuspended(secs)=41841, NAC=0x1d3c, RSOC=96, capacity=96%
[  342.369272] Battery: Resume - PostUpdate NAC=0x1d08, RSOC=96
It looks like the kernel's internally generated messages have proper time stamps.
The messages sent into the kernel's buffer by the lab126 scripting certainly looks like it has problems. Almost as if they where using random numbers for the time stamps.

Groan -
I may have to set this little "corruption detection" project aside until I have enough time to read through whatever it is lab126 is doing with its message logging.
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@knc1: No idea about the native/java stuff, but what's in shell uses logger from busybox, which, AFAIK is a simple wrapper around the syslog() stuff.

(Well, at least reimplementing it in Python that way achieved the same kind of results).
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