Re: MPC8641 based custom board kernel Bug

[wyang <w90p710@gmail.com>]

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On 12/26/2013 01:09 PM, Ashish Khetan wrote:
> Hi,
> I was trying to port Linux-3.12 for MPC8641 based custom designed 
> board for evaluation purpose. I have been facing a kernel bug at mpic 
> initialization. Is somebody have faced this kind of bugs or can give 
> me any pointer for further steps how to solve kernel bugs will be 
> really helpful. here is the snapshot for the bug that may be helpful 
> to address the bug.
> Using MPC86xx HPCN machine description
> Total memory = 512MB; using 1024kB for hash table (at cff00000)
> Linux version 3.12.0 (ashish@ashish-VirtualBox) (gcc version 4.7.2 
> (GCC) ) #2 We
> d Dec 25 16:04:36 IST 2013
> Found initrd at 0xde975000:0xdfec428a
> bootconsole [udbg0] enabled
> setup_arch: bootmem
> mpc86xx_hpcn_setup_arch()
> MPC86xx HPCN board from Freescale Semiconductor
> arch: exit
> Zone ranges:
>   DMA      [mem 0x00000000-0x1fffffff]
>   Normal   empty
>   HighMem  empty
> Movable zone start for each node
> Early memory node ranges
>   node   0: [mem 0x00000000-0x1fffffff]
> Built 1 zonelists in Zone order, mobility grouping on. Total pages: 130048
> Kernel command line: root=/dev/ram0 rw rootfs console=ttyS0,115200
> PID hash table entries: 2048 (order: 1, 8192 bytes)
> Dentry cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
> Inode-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
> Sorting __ex_table...
> Memory: 424980K/524288K available (4172K kernel code, 208K rwdata, 
> 1304K rodata,
>  196K init, 149K bss, 99308K reserved, 0K highmem)
> Kernel virtual memory layout:
>   * 0xfffcf000..0xfffff000  : fixmap
>   * 0xff800000..0xffc00000  : highmem PTEs
>   * 0xff7fe000..0xff800000  : early ioremap
>   * 0xe1000000..0xff7fe000  : vmalloc & ioremap
> SLUB: HWalign=32, Order=0-3, MinObjects=0, CPUs=1, Nodes=1
> NR_IRQS:512 nr_irqs:512 16
> ------------[ cut here ]------------
> kernel BUG at arch/powerpc/platforms/86xx/pic.c:42!

It hints that mpic_alloc() fails. Maybe, you should spend some time 
investigating why it fails.:-)

Thanks
Wei
> Oops: Exception in kernel mode, sig: 5 [#1]
> MPC86xx HPCN
> Modules linked in:
> CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper Not tainted 3.12.0 #2
> task: c05903e0 ti: c05b4000 task.ti: c05b4000
> NIP: c0567438 LR: c0567430 CTR: c0567400
> REGS: c05b5ee0 TRAP: 0700   Not tainted  (3.12.0)
> MSR: 00021032 <ME,IR,DR,RI>  CR: 24000042  XER: 20000000
>
> GPR00: c0567430 c05b5f90 c05903e0 00000000 c04e4ff8 c051e588 0000008f 
> 00000002
> GPR08: c042789c 00000001 0000006f 00000000 22000048 bebffffd 11a7b4e5 
> 200c8000
> GPR16: ffbeffff ffffffff 00000000 00000024 00000000 1fec56f8 1fec59a7 
> 00000000
> GPR24: 00000000 1fff97e8 40000000 1ffcc6a0 c0bff080 c05c2490 c05c2628 
> c0585b60
> NIP [c0567438] mpc86xx_init_irq+0x38/0x108
> LR [c0567430] mpc86xx_init_irq+0x30/0x108
> Call Trace:
> [c05b5f90] [c0567430] mpc86xx_init_irq+0x30/0x108 (unreliable)
> [c05b5fb0] [c0562784] init_IRQ+0x24/0x38
> [c05b5fc0] [c055fde4] start_kernel+0x1bc/0x2ec
> [c05b5ff0] [00003444] 0x3444
> Instruction dump:
> 3d00c04f 38800000 38a01002 38c00000 38e00100 39088f8c 38600000 90010024
> bfa10014 4bffec35 7c690034 5529d97e <0f090000> 3fa0c04f 4bfff391 38600000
> ---[ end trace 31fd0ba7d8756001 ]---
>
> Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill the idle task!
> Rebooting in 180 seconds..
>
>
> Thanks & Regards
> Ashish Khetan
>
>
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