Badness in 2.6.15-rc1 on 8xx

Joakim Tjernlund joakim.tjernlund at transmode.se
Mon Nov 28 21:52:33 EST 2005


 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Down [mailto:chris at alcor.co.uk] 
> Sent: 28 November 2005 11:01
> To: Joakim Tjernlund; linuxppc-embedded at ozlabs.org
> Subject: RE: Badness in 2.6.15-rc1 on 8xx
> 
> From: linuxppc-embedded-bounces at ozlabs.org
> [mailto:linuxppc-embedded-bounces at ozlabs.org] On Behalf Of 
> Joakim Tjernlund
> Sent: 25 November 2005 13:28
> To: linuxppc-embedded at ozlabs.org
> Subject: Badness in 2.6.15-rc1 on 8xx
> 
> Anyone seen this when booting 2.6.15-rc1 on 8xx?
>   Mount-cache hash table entries: 512
>   Badness in dma_alloc_init at arch/ppc/kernel/dma-mapping.c:346
>   Call trace:
>    [c00039e8] check_bug_trap+0x80/0xa8
>    [c0003c1c] program_check_exception+0x20c/0x480
>    [c00031e0] ret_from_except_full+0x0/0x4c
>    [c01b86b8] dma_alloc_init+0x40/0xcc
>    [c000225c] init+0x8c/0x288
>    [c00050ac] kernel_thread+0x44/0x60
>   NET: Registered protocol family 16
> The kernel boots just fine into user space so it seems harmless, but I
> suspect it will bite me later.
> 
> 
> I am currently working with 2.6.15-rc1 on MPC852 and I am 
> seeing a similar
> problem.
> 
> Badness in dma_alloc_init at arch/ppc/kernel/dma-mapping.c:346
> Call trace:
>  [c00036f8] check_bug_trap+0xa4/0xb8
>  [c0003f9c] program_check_exception+0x2f0/0x4c4
>  [c0003320] ret_from_except_full+0x0/0x4c
>  [c024c530] dma_alloc_init+0x3c/0xbc
>  [c0002280] init+0xbc/0x25c
>  [c000538c] kernel_thread+0x44/0x60
> 
> Have not had time to look at it yet, however I was not getting this on
> 2.6.11.
> 
> Chris

Let me guess you have IMAP_ADDR set to 0xff000000? Then you need to
change
CONSISTENT_START to something else(like 0xffa00000). Its somwhere in the
Advanced setup.

 Jocke



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