From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Wed, 23 Oct 2002 18:07:00 +0200 (CEST) Received: from p508B4F39.dip.t-dialin.net ([80.139.79.57]:18912 "EHLO dea.linux-mips.net") by linux-mips.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 23 Oct 2002 18:06:59 +0200 Received: (from ralf@localhost) by dea.linux-mips.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g9NG6nK32511; Wed, 23 Oct 2002 18:06:49 +0200 Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 18:06:49 +0200 From: Ralf Baechle To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Vincent_Stehl=E9?= Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org Subject: Re: {swapper:1] illegal instruction at ... Message-ID: <20021023180649.C27187@linux-mips.org> References: <20021022114557.26269.qmail@webmail22.rediffmail.com> <3DB53D09.9010503@stepmind.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <3DB53D09.9010503@stepmind.com>; from vincent.stehle@stepmind.com on Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 01:56:57PM +0200 Return-Path: X-Envelope-To: <"|/home/ecartis/ecartis -s linux-mips"> (uid 0) X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org X-archive-position: 497 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org Errors-to: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org X-original-sender: ralf@linux-mips.org Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 01:56:57PM +0200, Vincent Stehlé wrote: > > after this when I boot i get so many repeated messages like.. > > > > [swapper:1] Illegal instruction d0c62bd0 at 800f7c6c ra= > > 800f4860 > > [swapper:1] Illegal instruction 0031c78 at 800f5b5c at ra=8002d954 > [..] > > can somebody suggest me something.. Just a few items to check: - memory hw problem - memory controller configuration - caches not properly flushed - memory corruption > As it seems your problem has something to do with the swapper, are you > also trying to swap over nfs ? I think you need patches for that: > > http://www.instmath.rwth-aachen.de/~heine/nfs-swap/nfs-swap.html Those patches are broken. If you're using those patches, don't even expect to dream about things working ... Ralf