[BUG] 2.6.25-rc5-mm1 kernel panic with "Exception: 501 " on powerpc

[Andrew Morton]

On Wed, 12 Mar 2008 18:25:37 +0530 Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh at linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:

> Hi Andrew,
> 
> The 2.6.25-rc5-mm1 kernel panics while bootup on powerpc
> 
> returning from prom_init
> Unable to handle kernel paging request for data at address 0x00000000
> Faulting instruction address: 0xc00000000000d5dc
> cpu 0x0: Vector: 300 (Data Access) at [c0000000007636e0]
>     pc: c00000000000d5dc: .do_IRQ+0x74/0x1f4
>     lr: c00000000000d5a8: .do_IRQ+0x40/0x1f4
>     sp: c000000000763960
>    msr: 8000000000001032
>    dar: 0
>  dsisr: 40000000
>   current = 0xc000000000688e60
>   paca    = 0xc000000000689900
>     pid   = 0, comm = swapper
> enter ? for help
> [c000000000763a00] c000000000004c24 hardware_interrupt_entry+0x24/0x28
> --- Exception: 501 (Hardware Interrupt) at c0000000006021b0 .free_bootmem_core+0x94/0xcc
> [link register   ] c00000000060373c .free_bootmem_with_active_regions+0x78/0xb8
> [c000000000763cf0] c000000000602610 .init_bootmem_core+0x5c/0xfc (unreliable)
> [c000000000763d80] c0000000005eb68c .do_init_bootmem+0x964/0xaf0
> [c000000000763e50] c0000000005e03b0 .setup_arch+0x1a4/0x218
> [c000000000763ee0] c0000000005d76bc .start_kernel+0xe8/0x424
> [c000000000763f90] c000000000008590 .start_here_common+0x60/0xd0
> 

Beats me.  Maybe we're still enabling interrupts too early.  But the new
semaphore code got fixed (didn't it?)