Re: Help with OOPSes, anyone?

[Matthew Dharm <mdharm@momenco.com>]

Well, we're using very late RM7000 silicon, so I doubt that's the problem.
But it's a good thing to look at, anyway.

Tho it kinda conflicts with the datapoint that we actually had a stable
kernel on this hardware before.  Tho, like I said, that's not much of a
datapoint -- more testing coming!

Matt

On Sun, Jan 27, 2002 at 09:33:02AM -0800, Pete Popov wrote:
> 
> > But, under certain conditions, the kernel OOPSes.  Attached to this message
> > are a few of those OOPSes (serial console is wonderful!) along with the
> > ksymoops output.  I think the read_lsmod() warning is bogus, because there
> > are, actually, no modules loaded.
> > 
> > My instincts are telling me that these are all being caused by the same
> > problem, but I'll be damned if I can figure out what that is.  Caching is a
> > good suspect, but that's just because it's always a good suspect.
> 
> Native compiles have indeed proven a great way to shake out hardware and
> software bugs. 
> 
> One suggestion. The rm7k, at least some of the silicon versions, have
> hardware erratas with the 'wait' instruction, used in the cpu_idle()
> loop.  The CPU I have on one of the EV96100 boards, in combination with
> the gt96100, will hang hard every time if I don't disable the use of
> 'wait'.  So while this bug might not have anything to do with what
> you're observing, I would ifdef-out the 'wait' instruction in
> check_wait(), just to be sure that that's not the cause or one of the
> problems.
> 
> Pete

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Matthew Dharm                              Work: mdharm@momenco.com
Senior Software Designer, Momentum Computer