Re: Issue booting v2.6.39 .. v3.4-rc6 on hp712/100

[Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>]

On 05/20/2012 12:01 PM, James Bottomley wrote:
> On Fri, 2012-05-18 at 23:09 +0200, Helge Deller wrote:
>> James, here is the full kernel log. Does this help?
>
> Yes and no: it shows clearly we got all the way through the initrd, so
> we've gone through the alias region thousands of times doing flushes.
>
>> Kernel Fault: Code=26 regs=8fc30940 (Addr=0f2ff000)
>>
> It's an access rights trap, presumably on the alias tlb, since the
> address is definitely in the alias region.  The obvious candidate is the
> protection id deposit in do_alias
>
> 	depw,z		\prot,8,7,\prot
>
> but that all checks out fine (you can compare it with
> make_insert_tlb_11). So the page should have read, write and dirty set.
>
> The interesting thing is that the only way to get an access rights trap
> in the kernel is if the protection type is zero and I just can't see how
> do_alias would zero out \prot in a way that functions on your C3000
> (PA2.0) but not on the PA1.1 systems.
>
> Are you sure this is booting the same kernel?

Yes, since I use tftboot to deliver same vmlinux kernel to all my machines
for bootup.

Helge