public inbox for linux-m68k@lists.linux-m68k.org
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
* Crash in entry.S:resume on Atari ST
@ 2016-09-15 22:35 Matthias Reis
  2016-09-16  6:39 ` Greg Ungerer
                   ` (2 more replies)
  0 siblings, 3 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Matthias Reis @ 2016-09-15 22:35 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-m68k

Hi all,

in the frame of a hobby project 
(https://ford.biologie.hu-berlin.de/matze/linux-m68k-atarinommu/wikis/home), 
I did some changes to the kernel to make it boot on MMU-less, original 
Atari ST machines.

So far, my kernel manages to mount a root filesystem from fd0 and run 
busybox.

However, busybox (nano-X as well), produces a bus error and crashes the 
whole kernel:

==== hatari emulator output:
M68000 Bus Error reading at address $0 PC=$48f2.
Bus error exception at 0x48f2!
====

The disassembly from objdump -D shows, that this happens in resume 
(https://ford.biologie.hu-berlin.de/matze/linux-m68k-atarinommu/blob/master/arch/m68k/kernel/entry.S#L2195):

=== objdump -D vmlinux output:
000048cc <resume>:
     48cc:       2208            movel %a0,%d1
     48ce:       40e8 0320       movew %sr,%a0@(800)
     48d2:       48e7 031e       moveml %d6-%d7/%a3-%fp,%sp@-
     48d6:       214f 0318       movel %sp,%a0@(792)
     48da:       4e6b            movel %usp,%a3
     48dc:       214b 031c       movel %a3,%a0@(796)
     48e0:       2669 031c       moveal %a1@(796),%a3
     48e4:       4e63            movel %a3,%usp
     48e6:       2e69 0318       moveal %a1@(792),%sp
     48ea:       4cdf 78c0       moveml %sp@+,%d6-%d7/%a3-%fp
     48ee:       46e9 0320       movew %a1@(800),%sr
     48f2:       4e75            rtsp
===

It can be seen from the register dump given by the hatari debugger, that 
USP contains 0x0 and the superuser bit (indicated by "S=0") is not set:

===  hatari emulator output:
CPU=$48f2, VBL=6379, FrameCycles=86856, HBL=387, LineCycles=168, DSP=N/A
$000048f2 : 4e75                               rts
r
   D0 00000008   D1 00002200   D2 00005401   D3 00961EC8
   D4 00000000   D5 00940020   D6 602E0206   D7 00E00030
   A0 00865B68   A1 00961EEC   A2 0080E000   A3 000026E4
   A4 000045C0   A5 000045E4   A6 00004794   A7 00000000
USP  00000000 ISP  00000018
T=00 S=0 M=0 X=0 N=0 Z=0 V=0 C=0 IMASK=2 STP=0
Prefetch 42a7 (CLR) 4e75 (RTS) Chip latch 00000000
000048F2 4e75                     RTS
Next PC: 000048f4

===

If I understand correctly, the problem is that RTS sets the PC to USP, 
so the Atari wants to execute the code at 0x0, which is wrong and not 
allowed, of course.

I found the line "p->thread.usp = 0;" in the function copy_thread  
(https://ford.biologie.hu-berlin.de/matze/linux-m68k-atarinommu/blob/master/arch/m68k/kernel/process.c#L158), 
which is executed under the condition "unlikely(p->flags & PF_KTHREAD)". 
Just setting p->thread.usp = usp; did not help and I'm not sure why this 
should be necessary anyway.

Another thing I found out is that the crash happens at first call of 
resume with the superuser bit set to zero. Before that certain call, 
there are many successful calls in superuser mode.

Do you have any idea why this might happen? Is it maybe a nommu-related 
issue? Any speculations are welcome.

Thanks in advance!

Best regards,
Matthias

^ permalink raw reply	[flat|nested] 6+ messages in thread

end of thread, other threads:[~2016-09-16 14:47 UTC | newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages (download: mbox.gz follow: Atom feed
-- links below jump to the message on this page --
2016-09-15 22:35 Crash in entry.S:resume on Atari ST Matthias Reis
2016-09-16  6:39 ` Greg Ungerer
2016-09-16 13:53   ` Matthias Reis
2016-09-16  9:29 ` Andreas Schwab
2016-09-16 14:23 ` Andreas Schwab
2016-09-16 14:47   ` Matthias Reis

This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox