On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 04:59:19PM +0100, Florian Lohoff wrote: > Decoded this is: > > Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 00000000, epc == 00000000, ra == 00000000 > $0 : 00000000 1004fc00 fffffff2 00000001 > $4 : fffffff2 00000000 00000001 00000000 > $8 : 00000000 2abf3a94 8800f4a0 00000004 > $12: 8ec09f10 7ffffaf8 8ec09f18 8ec09f18 > $16: 8801acf8 00000000 10011510 00000002 > $20: 10011510 7ffffdd8 7ffffdcc 00000002 > $24: 00000000 2abf3a80 > $28: 8ec08000 8ec09ef8 7ffffd10 00000000 > epc : 00000000 > Using defaults from ksymoops -t elf32-bigmips -a mips:3000 > Status: 1004fc03 > Cause : 30000008 Ok - another one (sorry to spam you) >From "handle_sys" i see that system call address and no of args are in t2 and t3 which are 0x8800f4a0 and 4 with the register dump above. 8800f4a0 is sys_sysmips which i also saw in the find strace. >From the strace i find sysmips(0x7d1, 0x2ac95d24, 0x1, 0) = 4149 all the time - 0x7d1 is "MIPS_ATOMIC_SET" - Ok from the trace i see the call comes from handle_sys which itself would end with o32_ret_from_sys_call. sysmips(MIPS_ATOMIC_SET, ...) would itself return with "ret_from_sys_call". If i now apply Index: arch/mips/kernel/sysmips.c =================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/linux/arch/mips/kernel/sysmips.c,v retrieving revision 1.15 diff -u -r1.15 sysmips.c --- arch/mips/kernel/sysmips.c 2000/11/18 01:19:35 1.15 +++ arch/mips/kernel/sysmips.c 2001/01/25 15:48:44 @@ -111,7 +111,7 @@ __asm__ __volatile__( "move\t$29, %0\n\t" - "j\tret_from_sys_call" + "j\to32_ret_from_sys_call" : /* No outputs */ : "r" (&cmd)); /* Unreached */ The machine now at least doesnt crash anymore - Others have to decide if this is correct. (Nevertheless find doesnt return but this might be a different problem) Flo -- Florian Lohoff flo@rfc822.org +49-5201-669912 Why is it called "common sense" when nobody seems to have any?