Re: Exception while loading kernel

[Markus Gothe <markus.gothe@27m.se>]

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What about trying 2.6.22 from linux-mips.org in first place?

//Markus

Giuseppe Sacco wrote:
> Hi all, I compiled the latest kernel 2.6.22.4 from www.kernel.org
> and 2.6.23-rc3 from linux-.mips.org using the .config from Debian
> linux-image-2.6.22-1-r5k_ip32 and activating CONFIG_NFSD_V4 and a
> few network device drivers.
>
> The command I used to compile was:
>
> $ fakeroot make-kpkg --revision 2:2.6.22 \ --append-to-version
> -1gs-r5k-ip32 --arch-in-name buildpackage
>
> When I boot an SGI O2 r5k with any of those kernel, I get this
> error message:
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
>  Loading 64-bit executable Loading program segment 1 at 0x80005000,
> offset=0x0 4000, size = 0x0 4f8086 5dc000      (cache:
> 95.0%)Zeroing memory ar 0x82f611, size 0 0x0 Starting ELF64 kernel
>
> Exception: <vector=Normal> Status register:
> 0x34010082<CU1,CU0,FR,DE,IPL=8,KX,MODE=KERNEL> Cause register:
> 0x8014<CE=0,IP8,EXC=WADE> Exception PC: 0x802204fc, Exception RA:
> 0x804da7ac Write address error exception, bad address: 0xfffff000
> Saved user regs in hex (&gpda 0x81060e08, &_regs 0x81061008): arg:
> 81070000 0 804ff518 1 tmp: 81070000 1000 80516868 fff8054b ffffffff
> 81412ef4 a13fb0d0 8 sve: 81070000 4083ae51 0 4608a976 0 0 0
> 80ee80d5 t8 81070000 t9 0 at 0 v0 0 v1 0 k1 fffff000 gp 81070000 fp
> 0 sp 0 ra 0
>
> PANIC: Unexpected exception
>
> [Press reset or ENTER to restart.]
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
> If I understand correctly the problem happened at address
> 0x802204fc, so I checked the system.map file and found
> ffffffff802204c4 T __bzero ffffffff80220524 t memset_partial
>
> If I understand correctly, the kernel was executing the __bzero
> function and tried accessing the invalid address 0xfffff000.
>
> Other, maybe useful, addresses from system.map are:
>
> ffffffff804da6e8 t init_bootmem_core ffffffff804da7c8 t $L99
>
> ffffffff80516868 b contig_bootmem_data
>
> ffffffff804ff4e8 B boot_mem_map ffffffff804ff7f0 B fw_arg0
>
>> From these number, I guess that boot_mem_map contain an invalid
>> address.
> Is this correct?
>
> Bye, Giuseppe
>
>


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