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From: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
To: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Cc: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"ralf@linux-mips.org" <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Subject: Re: MIPS panic in 2.6.39 (bisected to 7eaceaccab5f)
Date: Tue, 24 May 2011 11:51:29 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4DDB7FA1.2080407@fusionio.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4DDB5673.5060206@landley.net>

On 2011-05-24 08:55, Rob Landley wrote:
> You can reproduce this under qemu by grabbing:
> 
>   http://landley.net/aboriginal/downloads/binaries/system-image-mips.tar.bz2
> 
> If you extract that tarball and ./run-emulator.sh it should boot
> to a mips shell prompt.  Now build your own vmlinux to replace the
> kernel in there with (using the attached .config), and try again,
> you should get a panic message something like:
> 
> PID hash table entries: 512 (order: -1, 2048 bytes)
> Dentry cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
> Inode-cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
> Primary instruction cache 2kB, VIPT, 2-way, linesize 16 bytes.
> Primary data cache 2kB, 2-way, VIPT, no aliases, linesize 16 bytes
> Writing ErrCtl register=00000000
> Readback ErrCtl register=00000000
> Memory: 125836k/127004k available (2172k kernel code, 1168k reserved, 507k data, 156k init, 0k highmem)
> SLUB: Genslabs=9, HWalign=64, Order=0-3, MinObjects=0, CPUs=1, Nodes=1
> NR_IRQS:256
> CPU 0 Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 00000080, epc == 803a09b0, ra == 803a0990
> Oops[#1]:
> Cpu 0
> $ 0   : 00000000 00000050 1bdc0001 00000000
> $ 4   : 00000018 00000000 00000001 00000000
> $ 8   : fffffff8 00000001 00000000 fffffffc
> $12   : fffffffc 00000000 00000008 fffffffc
> $16   : 803bce58 803bef35 803c0000 803c0000
> $20   : 80380000 00000000 00000000 00000000
> $24   : 00000000 00000000                  
> $28   : 80382000 80383ec8 00000000 803a0990
> Hi    : 00000000
> Lo    : 00000000
> epc   : 803a09b0 arch_init_irq+0x38/0x15c
>     Not tainted
> ra    : 803a0990 arch_init_irq+0x18/0x15c
> Status: 10000002    KERNEL EXL 
> Cause : 0080000c
> BadVA : 00000080
> PrId  : 00019300 (MIPS 24Kc)
> Process swapper (pid: 0, threadinfo=80382000, task=803855c0, tls=00000000)
> Stack : 803a17d4 87804000 803bce58 803bef35 803c0000 803c0000 8039fac4 8039fac4
>         00000000 803bce58 80380f04 0000004a 8039f454 00000000 803beee0 00000000
>         00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 80315f00 00000000 00000000
>         00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
>         00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
>         ...
> Call Trace:
> [<803a09b0>] arch_init_irq+0x38/0x15c
> [<8039fac4>] start_kernel+0x1f0/0x33c
> [<80315f00>] kernel_entry+0x0/0x94
> 
> 
> Code: 8c437048  3c021bdc  34420001 <ac620080> 24030001  3c02803c  080e827d  ac437040  8c43701c 
> 
> 
> I bisected it the problem to commit
> 7eaceaccab5f40bbfda044629a6298616aeaed50, but have no idea what
> the actual bug is.  (Other than "a null pointer dereference from
> arch_init_irq", I just dunno _why_.)

That sounds odd, very far from where that commit is changing things
around. What's at arch_init_irq+0x38?

-- 
Jens Axboe


  reply	other threads:[~2011-05-24  9:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-05-24  6:55 MIPS panic in 2.6.39 (bisected to 7eaceaccab5f) Rob Landley
2011-05-24  9:51 ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2011-05-24 14:39 ` Ralf Baechle
2011-05-25  7:38   ` Rob Landley
2011-05-27  7:55     ` Ralf Baechle
2011-05-27 14:00       ` Ralf Baechle
2011-05-27 20:09         ` Rob Landley
2011-05-28 10:48         ` Rob Landley
2011-05-28 16:28           ` Ralf Baechle
2011-05-28 19:56             ` Rob Landley
2011-05-28 20:56               ` Ralf Baechle

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