On Thu, 21 Jun 2001, you wrote: > I got the following oops dump during a stress load, which I cannot make any > sense out of it. The most confusing part is that the status register > indicates program was running in kernel (KSU bits) while the $epc points to a > userland address. How could this be ever possible at hardware level? It's very possible at the hardware level...kernel mode enables access to several segments; it doesn't disable mapped accesses. I don't think it should ever happen in linux, but there's nothing in the hardware that prevents this. > > The only possible explanation is perhaps those saved registers were corrupted > between when the exception happens and core dumps, but so unlikely .... *sigh* > > Any insight? You've got a TLBL exception, and va doesn't match epc, so presumably the processor thinks it was a load and not an ifetch that triggered this. It also follows that the processor thinks it found a valid instruction at 0x10000. If this is reproducable and the chip allows it, try dumping out the icache when you hit this, see if 0x10000 really appears in there... -Justin
