From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <51236E6C.40600@siemens.com> Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2013 13:22:04 +0100 From: Jan Kiszka MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <511CD2FB.7010502@gmail.com> <511DDBD5.4060505@web.de> <51236088.1030402@gmail.com> <51236A75.5090400@siemens.com> <51236B02.2030106@xenomai.org> In-Reply-To: <51236B02.2030106@xenomai.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Xenomai] (Boot)-problems with (current) ipipe patch on AMD FX 61000 - 2.6.38.8 & 3.5.7 List-Id: Discussions about the Xenomai project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Gilles Chanteperdrix Cc: Manuel Huber , "xenomai@xenomai.org" On 2013-02-19 13:07, Gilles Chanteperdrix wrote: > On 02/19/2013 01:05 PM, Jan Kiszka wrote: > >> On 2013-02-19 12:22, Manuel Huber wrote: >>> Thanks for your reply and sorry for the delay ;) >>> I have tried disabling the options and attached the logs. It still fails :( >>> >>> I hope it's okay to attach so many files... I can also add the config >>> files for >>> every build if that helps. >> >> I'll try your config later, though in a different environment. If I'm >> unable to reproduce, I'll provide further instrumentation suggestions. >> >> Gilles instrumentation confirmed that the CPU is taking a standard >> external IRQ (#23: 0x37-FIRST_EXTERNAL_VECTOR). I suspect we are >> enabling hardware IRQs too early during the boot of secondary CPUs, >> causing this BUG as not all data structures are initialized yet. What >> enables then can be some code that we do not run normally, on x86-64 or >> maybe also x86-32 unless using your .config and/or your hardware. > > > Remember that we have had such problems with grub2, so, the error could > depend on the bootloader, for instance a network-aware bootloader could > keep the network interface configured and we would take an interrupt > when re-enabling interrupts. Possibly, but I don't see yet how Linux (3.5.7) would behave better in this case. It should rather access the irq_desc array with a negative index. And that suggests there is still an I-pipe factor involved that makes this bug possible (the BUG_ON just catches it). Jan -- Siemens AG, Corporate Technology, CT RTC ITP SDP-DE Corporate Competence Center Embedded Linux