Hello Maciej, thanks for answer! when it is at first time it is wery important :)! Wednesday, May 24, 2006, 7:45:26 PM, you wrote: MWR> The "linux-mips" mailing list (as cc-ed in this response) is a better MWR> place to ask such questions. MWR> You haven't included some important information, such as the version MWR> number of your Linux kernel and where you got your sources from. Without MWR> that bit all I can say is there is something wrong with handling of the MWR> TLB. MWR> Ralf, BTW -- shouldn't we report the Index, EntryHi and possibly EntryLo* MWR> registers in show_regs() if the cause is a machine check? I think it MWR> would be useful and these registers shouldn't have been corrupted since MWR> the triggering tlbw* instruction. A call to show_code() could be useful MWR> too, to determine which kind of TLB exception has been taken originally. MWR> Maciej Information about kernel sources (how can I forgot this!!): Version: linux-2.6.12-rc1-mipscvs-20050403 (this is tar-s full name). So I think this kernel is from linux-mips cvs repositary. It was downloaded from http://www.student.tue.nl/Q/t.f.a.wilms/adm5120/ Here is mcheck with respect to your patch: [4294701.476000] Got mcheck at 8011c818 [4294701.476000] Hi : 00000000 [4294701.476000] Pagemask: ffffffff [4294701.476000] EntryHi : c008a013 [4294701.476000] EntryLo0: 0000f25f [4294701.476000] EntryLo1: 0000ff9f [4294701.476000] [4294701.476000] Cpu 0 [4294701.476000] $ 0 : 00000000 10008400 00000000 802b17ac [4294701.476000] $ 4 : 802b13ac 00000400 c008ac00 80353d6c [4294701.476000] $ 8 : 10008400 1000001f 80393000 fffffff8 [4294701.476000] $12 : 802b0000 802b0000 00000001 ffffffff [4294701.476000] $16 : 00000400 802b17ab 80353d6c 00000020 [4294701.476000] $20 : 80353e38 81144800 00000400 802b13ac [4294701.476000] $24 : 00000006 0048ce30 [4294701.476000] $28 : 80352000 80353c70 7faf5d98 8011ce94 [4294701.476000] Hi : 00000000 [4294701.476000] Lo : 000c3500 [4294701.476000] epc : 8011c818 vsnprintf+0x54/0x6bc Not tainted [4294701.476000] ra : 8011ce94 vscnprintf+0x14/0x30 [4294701.476000] Status: 10208402 KERNEL EXL [4294701.476000] Cause : 00800060 [4294701.476000] PrId : 0001800b [4294701.476000] [4294701.476000] Index: 0 pgmask=4kb va=0050a000 asid=13 [4294701.476000] [pa=00000000 c=0 d=0 v=0 g=0] [4294701.476000] [pa=00379000 c=3 d=1 v=1 g=0] [4294701.476000] [4294701.476000] Index: 1 pgmask=4kb va=7faf4000 asid=13 [4294701.476000] [pa=00000000 c=0 d=0 v=0 g=0] [4294701.476000] [pa=0031b000 c=3 d=1 v=1 g=0] [4294701.476000] [4294701.476000] Index: 2 pgmask=4kb va=0048a000 asid=13 [4294701.476000] [pa=011bc000 c=3 d=0 v=1 g=0] [4294701.476000] [pa=011bd000 c=3 d=0 v=1 g=0] [4294701.476000] [4294701.476000] Index: 5 pgmask=4kb va=00492000 asid=13 [4294701.476000] [pa=011c4000 c=3 d=0 v=1 g=0] [4294701.476000] [pa=011c5000 c=3 d=0 v=1 g=0] [4294701.476000] [4294701.476000] Index: 6 pgmask=4kb va=004ee000 asid=13 [4294701.476000] [pa=0028a000 c=3 d=0 v=1 g=0] [4294701.476000] [pa=011f7000 c=3 d=1 v=1 g=0] [4294701.476000] [4294701.476000] Index: 7 pgmask=4kb va=0048c000 asid=13 [4294701.476000] [pa=011be000 c=3 d=0 v=1 g=0] [4294701.476000] [pa=011bf000 c=3 d=0 v=1 g=0] [4294701.476000] [4294701.476000] Index: 8 pgmask=4kb va=004f0000 asid=13 [4294701.476000] [pa=00322000 c=3 d=1 v=1 g=0] [4294701.476000] [pa=00000000 c=0 d=0 v=0 g=0] [4294701.476000] [4294701.476000] Index: 9 pgmask=4kb va=00480000 asid=13 [4294701.476000] [pa=011b0000 c=3 d=0 v=1 g=0] [4294701.476000] [pa=011b1000 c=3 d=0 v=1 g=0] [4294701.476000] [4294701.476000] Index: 10 pgmask=4kb va=00488000 asid=13 [4294701.476000] [pa=011b8000 c=3 d=0 v=1 g=0] [4294701.476000] [pa=011b9000 c=3 d=0 v=1 g=0] [4294701.476000] [4294701.476000] Index: 11 pgmask=4kb va=7faf6000 asid=13 [4294701.476000] [pa=00357000 c=3 d=1 v=1 g=0] [4294701.476000] [pa=00000000 c=0 d=0 v=0 g=0] [4294701.476000] [4294701.476000] Index: 12 pgmask=4kb va=00478000 asid=13 [4294701.476000] [pa=00000000 c=0 d=0 v=0 g=0] [4294701.476000] [pa=011a9000 c=3 d=0 v=1 g=0] [4294701.476000] [4294701.476000] Index: 13 pgmask=4kb va=c008c000 asid=13 [4294701.476000] [pa=003ff000 c=3 d=1 v=1 g=1] [4294701.476000] [pa=01200000 c=3 d=1 v=1 g=1] [4294701.476000] [4294701.476000] Index: 14 pgmask=4kb va=004aa000 asid=13 [4294701.476000] [pa=00286000 c=3 d=0 v=1 g=0] [4294701.476000] [pa=00287000 c=3 d=0 v=1 g=0] [4294701.476000] [4294701.476000] Index: 15 pgmask=4kb va=00508000 asid=13 [4294701.476000] [pa=0031c000 c=3 d=1 v=1 g=0] [4294701.476000] [pa=00000000 c=0 d=0 v=0 g=0] [4294701.476000] [4294701.476000] [4294701.476000] Code: 0222102b 14400034 00000000 <80c60000> 14c00014 02e08021 0230102b 10400021 00001821 [4294701.476000] Caught Machine Check exception - caused by multiple matching entries in the TLB -- Best regards, art mailto:art@xxxxxxxxxx
