Kernel oops while duming user core.

Kumar Gala galak at kernel.crashing.org
Fri Feb 1 06:15:42 EST 2008


On Jan 31, 2008, at 10:26 AM, Rune Torgersen wrote:

> Nathan Lynch wrote:
>> Hmm, this is the second report of 2.6.24 crashing in
>> __flush_dcache_icache during a core dump; see:
>> http://ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2007-December/048662.html
>>
>> Is this easily recreatable?
>
> Yes. I have a binary that will do this every time it is started (on  
> this
> particular system),
> only takes about 10 seconds before it dumps.
>
> I was going to test HEAD of powerpc.git to see if it is still there.
> I cannot test any earlier versions as our board port was done on  
> 2.6.24.
>
> Our older kernel port is 2.6.18 on arch/ppc, and it works just fine.
>
>
> One potential clue:
>> Unable to handle kernel paging request for data at address 0x48024000
>
> this adddress is beyond our physical memory. We have 1GB of mem
> (CONFIG_HIGH_MEM enabled) so 0x3fff_ffff is the last valid address.
> 0x4000_0000 to 0x7fff_ffff are unused, 0x8000_0000 to 0x9fff_ffff is
> used by PCI.


Can you git-bisect to narrow this down further.

- k



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