Kernel oops while duming user core.
Scott Wood
scottwood at freescale.com
Fri Feb 1 08:58:24 EST 2008
Scott Wood wrote:
> Nathan Lynch wrote:
>> Is the crashing program multithreaded? The first report had firefox
>> triggering the oops.
>
> OK, I've got a test program that triggers it now. I'll see if I can
> figure out what's going on.
The problem seems to be that update_mmu_cache() is called on a guard
page with no access rights.
Changing update_mmu_cache() to always call flush_dcache_icache_page()
fixes it, though a better performing fix would probably be to add an
exception table entry for the dcbst.
-Scott
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