I tried out the code at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal.git experimental-kernel_thread and it gives me this panic on boot. James --- PALO(F0) partition contains: PALO is formatted EXT2/3 Command line for kernel: ' root=/dev/sda3 panic=5 console=ttyS1 palo_kernel=1/vmlinux-test' Selected kernel: /vmlinux-test from partition 1 Selected ramdisk: /initrd.img-test from partition 1 ELF64 executable Entry 00100000 first 00100000 n 4 Segment 0 load 00100000 size 5984256 mediaptr 0x1000 Segment 1 load 00741cf0 size 541128 mediaptr 0x5b6cf0 Segment 2 load 007c8000 size 190432 mediaptr 0x63b000 Segment 3 load 007f7000 size 140928 mediaptr 0x66a000 Loading ramdisk 2849281 bytes @ 3fd36000... Branching to kernel entry point 0x00100000. If this is the last message you see, you may need to switch your console. This is a common symptom -- search the FAQ and mailing list at parisc-linux.org [ 0.000000] Initializing cgroup subsys cpuset [ 0.000000] Initializing cgroup subsys cpu [ 0.000000] Linux version 3.6.0+ (jejb@ion) (gcc version 4.2.4 (Debian 4.2.4-6)) #35 SMP Fri Oct 5 03:42:07 PDT 2012 [ 0.000000] unwind_init: start = 0x405b7000, end = 0x405f15a0, entries = 14938 [ 0.000000] WARNING: Out of order unwind entry! 00000000405b8590 and 00000000405b85a0 [ 0.000000] WARNING: Out of order unwind entry! 00000000405b85a0 and 00000000405b85b0 [ 0.000000] WARNING: Out of order unwind entry! 00000000405b9220 and 00000000405b9230 [ 0.000000] WARNING: Out of order unwind entry! 00000000405b9230 and 00000000405b9240 [ 0.000000] WARNING: Out of order unwind entry! 00000000405b9240 and 00000000405b9250 [ 0.000000] WARNING: Out of order unwind entry! 00000000405b9250 and 00000000405b9260 [ 0.000000] WARNING: Out of order unwind entry! 00000000405b9260 and 00000000405b9270 [ 0.000000] WARNING: Out of order unwind entry! 00000000405b9270 and 00000000405b9280 [ 0.000000] WARNING: Out of order unwind entry! 00000000405b9280 and 00000000405b9290 [ 0.000000] WARNING: Out of order unwind entry! 00000000405b9290 and 00000000405b92a0 [ 0.000000] WARNING: Out of order unwind entry! 00000000405b92c0 and 00000000405b92d0 [ 0.000000] WARNING: Out of order unwind entry! 00000000405b92d0 and 00000000405b92e0 [ 0.000000] WARNING: Out of order unwind entry! 00000000405b92e0 and 00000000405b92f0 [ 0.000000] WARNING: Out of order unwind entry! 00000000405b92f0 and 00000000405b9300 [ 0.000000] WARNING: Out of order unwind entry! 00000000405b9300 and 00000000405b9310 [ 0.000000] WARNING: Out of order unwind entry! 00000000405b9310 and 00000000405b9320 [ 0.000000] WARNING: Out of order unwind entry! 00000000405b9320 and 00000000405b9330 [ 0.000000] WARNING: Out of order unwind entry! 00000000405b9330 and 00000000405b9340 [ 0.000000] FP[0] enabled: Rev 1 Model 20 [ 0.000000] The 64-bit Kernel has started... [ 0.000000] bootconsole [ttyB0] enabled [ 0.000000] Initialized PDC Console for debugging. [ 0.000000] Determining PDC firmware type: 64 bit PAT. [ 0.000000] model 00008870 00000491 00000000 00000002 3e0505e7352af710 100000f0 00000008 000000b2 000000b2 [ 0.000000] vers 00000301 [ 0.000000] CPUID vers 20 rev 4 (0x00000284) [ 0.000000] capabilities 0x35 [ 0.000000] model 9000/800/rp3440 [ 0.000000] parisc_cache_init: Only equivalent aliasing supported! [ 0.000000] Memory Ranges: [ 0.000000] 0) Start 0x0000000000000000 End 0x000000003fffffff Size 1024 MB [ 0.000000] 1) Start 0x0000004040000000 End 0x000000407fdfffff Size 1022 MB [ 0.000000] Total Memory: 2046 MB [ 0.000000] initrd: 7fd36000-7ffeda01 [ 0.000000] initrd: reserving 3fd36000-3ffeda01 (mem_max 7fe00000) [ 0.000000] PERCPU: Embedded 10 pages/cpu @0000000041942000 s9856 r8192 d22912 u40960 [ 0.000000] SMP: bootstrap CPU ID is 0 [ 0.000000] Built 2 zonelists in Zone order, mobility grouping on. Total pages: 516615 [ 0.000000] Kernel command line: root=/dev/sda3 panic=5 console=ttyS1 palo_kernel=1/vmlinux-test [ 0.000000] PID hash table entries: 4096 (order: 3, 32768 bytes) [ 0.000000] Dentry cache hash table entries: 262144 (order: 9, 2097152 bytes) [ 0.000000] Inode-cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 8, 1048576 bytes) [ 0.000000] Memory: 2048728k/2095104k available (4030k kernel code, 46376k reserved, 1765k data, 328k init) [ 0.000000] virtual kernel memory layout: 0.000000] vmalloc : 0x0000000000008000 - 0x000000003f000000 (1007 MB) 0.000000] memory : 0x0000000040000000 - 0x00000040bfe00000 (264190 MB) 0.000000] .init : 0x00000000407c8000 - 0x000000004081a000 ( 328 kB) 0.000000] .data : 0x00000000404efb10 - 0x00000000406a8f10 (1765 kB) 0.000000] .text : 0x0000000040100000 - 0x00000000404efb10 (4030 kB) [ 0.000000] SLUB: Genslabs=11, HWalign=64, Order=0-3, MinObjects=0, CPUs=8, Nodes=8 [ 0.000000] Hierarchical RCU implementation. [ 0.000000] CONFIG_RCU_FANOUT set to non-default value of 32 [ 0.000000] NR_IRQS:128 [ 0.000000] Console: colour dummy device 160x64 [ 0.000000] Calibrating delay loop... 1594.36 BogoMIPS (lpj=3188736) [ 0.048000] pid_max: default: 32768 minimum: 301 [ 0.048000] Security Framework initialized [ 0.048000] SELinux: Disabled at boot. [ 0.048000] Mount-cache hash table entries: 256 [ 0.056000] Initializing cgroup subsys cpuacct [ 0.056000] Initializing cgroup subsys devices [ 0.056000] Initializing cgroup subsys freezer [ 0.064000] Initializing cgroup subsys net_cls [ 0.064000] Initializing cgroup subsys blkio [ 0.304000] Backtrace: [ 0.304000] [<00000000401435b8>] copy_process+0x9d8/0x1698 [ 0.304000] [<00000000401151a0>] fork_idle+0x60/0xc8 [ 0.304000] [<00000000407d0c70>] idle_threads_init+0xc0/0x130 [ 0.304000] [<00000000407d2520>] smp_init+0x30/0x158 [ 0.304000] [<00000000407c87c0>] kernel_init+0x158/0x390 [ 0.304000] [<0000000040104020>] end_fault_vector+0x20/0x3c [ 0.304000] [<000000004011bb00>] _raw_spin_trylock+0x0/0x18 [ 0.304000] [ 0.304000] [ 0.304000] Kernel Fault: Code=26 regs=000000007f84c850 (Addr=0000000000000018) [ 0.304000] [ 0.304000] YZrvWESTHLNXBCVMcbcbcbcbOGFRQPDI [ 0.304000] PSW: 00001000000001001111111100001111 Not tainted [ 0.304000] r00-03 000000ff0804ff0f 00000000407c4a90 0000000040129270 000000007f85d410 [ 0.304000] r04-07 00000000407a0290 0000000000000000 000000007f84c348 000000007f8a0000 [ 0.304000] r08-11 0000000000000000 0000000000000100 000000004069f088 0000000000000000 [ 0.304000] r12-15 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 000000007f84c348 [ 0.304000] r16-19 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 [ 0.304000] r20-23 0000000000000006 000000007f85da30 0000000000000000 000000007f85d410 [ 0.304000] r24-27 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 000000007f85d780 00000000407a0290 [ 0.304000] r28-31 0000000040104000 000000007f84c820 000000007f84c850 000000007f8a0100 [ 0.304000] sr00-03 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 [ 0.304000] sr04-07 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 [ 0.304000] [ 0.304000] IASQ: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 IAOQ: 0000000040129288 000000004012928c [ 0.304000] IIR: 50bf0030 ISR: 0000000000000000 IOR: 0000000000000018 [ 0.304000] CPU: 0 CR30: 000000007f84c000 CR31: fffffff0f0e098e0 [ 0.304000] ORIG_R28: 0000000000000000 [ 0.304000] IAOQ[0]: copy_thread+0xf8/0x110 [ 0.304000] IAOQ[1]: copy_thread+0xfc/0x110 [ 0.304000] RP(r2): copy_thread+0xe0/0x110 [ 0.304000] Backtrace: [ 0.304000] [<00000000401435b8>] copy_process+0x9d8/0x1698 [ 0.304000] [<00000000401151a0>] fork_idle+0x60/0xc8 [ 0.304000] [<00000000407d0c70>] idle_threads_init+0xc0/0x130 [ 0.304000] [<00000000407d2520>] smp_init+0x30/0x158 [ 0.304000] [<00000000407c87c0>] kernel_init+0x158/0x390 [ 0.304000] [<0000000040104020>] end_fault_vector+0x20/0x3c [ 0.304000] [<000000004011bb00>] _raw_spin_trylock+0x0/0x18 [ 0.304000] [ 0.304000] Kernel panic - not syncing: Kernel Fault [ 0.304000] Rebooting in 5 seconds.. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-parisc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html