On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 01:14:14PM +0530, durai wrote: > Kernel unaligned instruction access in unaligned.c:do_ade, line 428: > $0 : 00000000 a0000000 00097fff ffffffff 80fa228c ba000000 a0f40000 00000000 > $8 : 00000045 00000001 00ff0000 00ff0000 80fa228c 80f90738 00003b00 80fdd812 > $16: 80fa2000 80fe8221 80fe6010 00008da9 ff000000 00ff0000 80fa2000 a0f40000 > $24: 00000001 80494970 8043a000 8043a118 80fa228c 80f930c1 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ $28 is the current pointer, $29 the stack pointer. > epc : 80f930c1 > Status: 3000fc00 > Cause : 00000010 > Process (pid: -2142680720, stackpage=8043a000) You've overflowed the stack to the point where the process structure got overwritten. which also explains the nonsense pid value. -2142680720 is 0x80494970 which is probably some valid kernel address. Find what's consuming so much stack - you should only use a split fraction of that. The epc value also looks quite strange because it's lowest bit is set - does your CPU support MIPS16? Ralf