On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 11:20:44PM +0530, Premi, Sanjeev wrote: > I was able to test BogoMIPS calculations via /proc/cpuinfo for > both with & without CONFIG_SMP selected. > > For most part things work fine - but I do notice occassional Oops > and segmentation faults while doing "cat /proc/cpuinfo" > > With CONFIG_SMP enabled, system doesn't recover from the Oops; > but without SMP - I noticed segmentation faults/ BUG but system > does recover. > > They could be unrelated - but i didn't see any of these earlier > today. I will continue debug on MON. I don't think these are related to the patch - I think there's something up with your hardware. Let's take the first. > [root@OMAP3EVM cpufreq]# cat /proc/cpuinfo > [ 73.832366] Internal error: Oops - undefined instruction: 0 [#1] SMP Ok an undefined instruction. So... > [ 73.839019] Modules linked in: > [ 73.842193] CPU: 0 Not tainted (3.0.0-rc3-14002-g40b6752-dirty #21) > [ 73.849121] PC is at __do_fault+0x1c0/0x450 > [ 73.853485] LR is at __do_fault+0x2b0/0x450 > [ 73.857879] pc : [<c010fa18>] lr : [<c010fb08>] psr: 00000113 > [ 73.857879] sp : c7907d48 ip : 00000000 fp : c5d518c0 > [ 73.869873] r10: 00000200 r9 : 40214000 r8 : 00000000 > [ 73.875335] r7 : c2692f98 r6 : c0ad7600 r5 : 87fb018f r4 : 00000000 > [ 73.882141] r3 : 87fb0a3e r2 : 00000800 r1 : 87fb01cf r0 : c5d518c0 > [ 73.888977] Flags: nzcv IRQs on FIQs on Mode SVC_32 ISA ARM Segment user > [ 73.896423] Control: 10c5387d Table: 8795c019 DAC: 00000015 > [ 73.902435] Process cat (pid: 449, stack limit = 0xc79062f8) ... lets look at the code line: > [ 74.176879] Code: e1a01005 e3a02000 ebfd1694 e59d0014 (eb07fcba) and disassemble it: 0: e1a01005 mov r1, r5 4: e3a02000 mov r2, #0 ; 0x0 8: ebfd1694 bl 0xfff45a60 c: e59d0014 ldr r0, [sp, #20] 10: eb07fcba bl 0x1ff300 There is no way that 0xeb07fcba should ever cause an undefined ARM instruction on a properly functioning system. It points at a hardware problem - are you using a socketed SoC? Is it properly socketed? Is the socket dirty? And all other questions related to hardware integrity... -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-omap" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html