port linux-2.6 to ml410, problem on disabling external interrupts

[diak sim]

there is a strange problem.

my platform is ml410, port linux-2.6.23rc2 vertex kernel to it. the toolchain is generated by crosstool. the cross-gcc is powerpc-405-linux-gnu-gcc 4.0.2.when i complete the kernel compiling and download it to the board to run, there are a few questions.

at first, i can't see anything output after "Now booting the kernel". through debugging i found that init_IRQ() function in init/main.c can't run to the end. so i cut it and rerun the kernel. it runs so long until the rootfs is mounted. the problem occurs in executing /linuxrc. it says "init has generated signal 4 but has no handler for it". the reason, i've known, is that i disabled the init_IRQ() function. then i get down to search for the wrong point.

the init_IRQ() called in init/main.c is defined in arch/powerpc/kernel/irq.c. init_IRQ() calls ppc_md.init_IRQ(). ppc_md is a variable of "struct machdep_calls". the ppc_md.init_IRQ is evaluated in arch/ppc/syslib/ppc4xx_setup.c. the statement is ppc_md.init_IRQ = ppc4xx_init_IRQ. and the ppc4xx_init_IRQ() calls ppc4xx_pic_init() defined in arch/ppc/syslib/xilinx_pic.c.

tracing into ppc4xx_pic_init() function, i located the problem at "intc_out_be32(intc + IER, 0)". "intc_out_be32" is a macro as the real form "out_be32((addr), (mask))". the out_be32() is a function defined in include/asm-ppc/io.h.

extern inline void out_be32(volatile unsigned __iomem *addr, int val)
{
        __asm__ __volatile__("sync; stw%U0%X0 %1,%0" : "=m" (*addr) : "r" (val));
}

i replace "intc_out_be32(intc + IER, 0)" with the assemble statements and rerun, nothing changes.

XPS's debugger points out that the kernel stop in _delay() function. but there is not any call to this function. only the 2 assemble statements are there.

dividing the "sync" and "stw" into 2 __asm__ ones, "sync" is passed but "stw" makes a strange _delay() calling.

so strange it is, who can help me?

thanks.




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