Linux booting issue on powerpc 440x5

Sumesh Kaana sumeshkkn at hotmail.com
Fri Sep 18 19:31:34 EST 2009



Hi,
I am trying to boot linux kernel (2.6.30) on PPC440x5 processor in a custom built board. I am using simple ppc platform.
I have a small bootloader which will only copy the simpleImage.myboard.bin to 0x400000 location of my SRAM from the flash.
SRAM is only 16MB and bootloader creates one and only TLB of 16MB
I am getting "Kernel access of bad area, sig: 11 [#1]" while kernel is booting.
kernel crashes in different places, for different compilation
Bellow given are 2 dumps of kernel crash
In DUMP1, in back trace, execution flow is shown like,
Start_kernel() --> sort_main_extable() --> sort_extable(). and sort extable calls some functions whose name is not mentioned.
Why is it not able to get the name of the function.?
i went through the 'objdump' of the kernel, I don't know whether it can help me somehow, it looked like this
--c018c730:   48 00 71 9d     bl      c01938cc <sort_main_extable>c018c734:   48 00 3e 3d     bl      c0190570 <trap_init>--c01938e8:   4b f7 10 f1     bl      c01049d8 <sort_extable>c01938ec:   80 01 00 14     lwz     r0,20(r1)--c01049fc:   48 00 8d 99     bl      c010d794 <sort>c0104a00:   80 01 00 14     lwz     r0,20(r1)--c016b99c:   42 6f 6f 74     bc+     18,4*cr3+so,c0172910 <kallsyms_token_index+0x7400>--
Could this be problem with "kallsyms"..? Because sort_extable() calls sort() which is an exported function defined in linux-2.6.30\lib\sort.c
when i checked 'objdump' of the kernel, i could see the usage of a preserved opcode of ppc440x5 (code: eciwx).
I tried compiling the kernel with "kallsyms" disabled, that also did not work.
In DUMP2, backtrace is not able to identify the name of 'caller' of unflatten_device_tree(). The caller is mentioned as "[00000000] (null)"
Could this be a stack problem, like stack pointer getting corrupted.?
At last, could this be a hardware problem(expecting to be memory problem)..?
Can you tell me if i am missing something.?
thanks,Shyju. N

-------------------------DUMP 1------------------------------------id mach(): doneMMU:enterMMU:hw initMMU:mapinMMU:setioMMU:exitbootmemarch: exit<7>Top of RAM: 0x1000000, Total RAM: 0x1000000Zone PFN ranges:  DMA      0x00000000 -> 0x00001000  Normal   0x00001000 -> 0x00001000Movable zone start PFN for each nodeearly_node_map[1] active PFN ranges    0: 0x00000000 -> 0x00001000MMU: Allocated 1088 bytes of context maps for 255 contextsBuilt 1 zonelists in Zone order, mobility grouping off.  Total pages: 4064Kernel command line: console=ttyS0 root=/dev/ramUnable to handle kernel paging request for data at address 0x00021000Faulting instruction address: 0xc010a7c4Oops: Kernel access of bad area, sig: 11 [#1]PREEMPT PowerPC 44x PlatformModules linked in:NIP: c010a7c4 LR: c010dc50 CTR: 00000000REGS: c01bfeb0 TRAP: 0300   Not tainted  (2.6.30)MSR: 00021000 <ME,CE>  CR: 24000044  XER: 00000000DEAR: 00021000, ESR: 00000000TASK = c01a94b8[0] 'swapper' THREAD: c01be000GPR00: 00001180 c01bff60 c01a94b8 00021000 00000025 00000008 c0104968 00000000 GPR08: 2f72616d c0110000 c0155938 c01a0000 22000024 00000000 fffff104 00000000 GPR16: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 fffffff8 000008b8 c010d758 c0104968 GPR24: 00001198 00001190 c018a001 c01c5498 000008c0 00001188 00021000 c01c42f0 NIP [c010a7c4] strchr+0x0/0x3cLR [c010dc50] match_token+0x138/0x228Call Trace:[c01bff60] [c016b99c] 0xc016b99c (unreliable)[c01bffa0] [c0104a00] sort_extable+0x28/0x38[c01bffb0] [c01938ec] sort_main_extable+0x20/0x30[c01bffc0] [c018c734] start_kernel+0x140/0x288[c01bfff0] [c0000200] skpinv+0x190/0x1ccInstruction dump:7ca903a6 88040000 38a5ffff 38840001 2f800000 98090000 39290001 419e0010 4200ffe4 98a90000 4e800020 4e800020 <88030000> 5484063e 7f802000 4d9e0020 ---[ end trace 31fd0ba7d8756001 ]---Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill the idle task!Call Trace:[c01bfd90] [c0005d5c] show_stack+0x4c/0x16c (unreliable)[c01bfdd0] [c002f17c] panic+0xa0/0x168[c01bfe20] [c0032eb8] do_exit+0x61c/0x638[c01bfe60] [c000b60c] kernel_bad_stack+0x0/0x4c[c01bfe90] [c000f310] bad_page_fault+0x90/0xd8[c01bfea0] [c000e184] handle_page_fault+0x7c/0x80[c01bff60] [c016b99c] 0xc016b99c[c01bffa0] [c0104a00] sort_extable+0x28/0x38[c01bffb0] [c01938ec] sort_main_extable+0x20/0x30[c01bffc0] [c018c734] start_kernel+0x140/0x288[c01bfff0] [c0000200] skpinv+0x190/0x1ccRebooting in 180 seconds..-------------------------------------------------------------------
-------------------------DUMP 2------------------------------------id mach(): doneMMU:enterMMU:hw initMMU:mapinMMU:setioMMU:exit<1>Unable to handle kernel paging request for data at address 0x40ee8053Faulting instruction address: 0xc018ff44Oops: Kernel access of bad area, sig: 11 [#1]PREEMPT PowerPC 44x PlatformModules linked in:NIP: c018ff44 LR: c018ff20 CTR: 00000000REGS: c01bfe10 TRAP: 0300   Not tainted  (2.6.30)MSR: 00021000 <ME,CE>  CR: 44088024  XER: 00000000DEAR: 40ee8053, ESR: 00800000TASK = c01a94b8[0] 'swapper' THREAD: c01be000GPR00: c0ffea58 c01bfec0 c01a94b8 c0ffea6e c04eb3aa 00000003 c0ffea74 00000000 GPR08: 00000000 40ee802f c04eb3a0 c01bfec8 24082022 00000000 fffff104 00000000 GPR16: 00000000 c016cfe8 c016cfd8 c0170cbc c01bfec8 c0ffea24 c04eb3a4 c04eb3a0 GPR24: 00000008 c01bff8c c04eb33c c0ffea2c 00000007 c01bff88 c0ffe984 c0ffea6d NIP [c018ff44] unflatten_dt_node+0x158/0x520LR [c018ff20] unflatten_dt_node+0x134/0x520Call Trace:[c01bff20] [c019023c] unflatten_dt_node+0x450/0x520[c01bff80] [c01903b4] unflatten_device_tree+0xa8/0x13c[c01bffb0] [00000000] (null)Instruction dump:7f85e378 7ec4b378 4be81b55 81390000 381b002c 93690000 90190000 4192001c 813e0028 93db001c 2f890000 419e03b4 <93690024> 937e0028 387b0034 3abb0014 ---[ end trace 31fd0ba7d8756001 ]---Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill the idle task!Call Trace:[c01bfcf0] [c0005d5c] show_stack+0x4c/0x16c (unreliable)[c01bfd30] [c002f17c] panic+0xa0/0x168[c01bfd80] [c0032eb8] do_exit+0x61c/0x638[c01bfdc0] [c000b60c] kernel_bad_stack+0x0/0x4c[c01bfdf0] [c000f310] bad_page_fault+0x90/0xd8[c01bfe00] [c000e184] handle_page_fault+0x7c/0x80[c01bfec0] [00000000] (null)[c01bff20] [c019023c] unflatten_dt_node+0x450/0x520[c01bff80] [c01903b4] unflatten_device_tree+0xa8/0x13c[c01bffb0] [00000000] (null)-------------------------------------------------------------------



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