On 08/26/2014 20:53, Joshua Kinard wrote: > On 08/26/2014 10:02, Ralf Baechle wrote: >> On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 09:16:56AM -0400, Joshua Kinard wrote: >> >>> On 08/26/2014 08:03, Ralf Baechle wrote: >>>> On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 07:06:56AM -0400, Joshua Kinard wrote: >>>> >>>>> o32 userland is the primary on both systems. However, the last SIGILL was >>>>> under the 64k PAGE_SIZE kernel inside of an n32 chroot compiling the 'boost' >>>>> package on the Octane, which I restarted that and it's not complained since. >>>>> Also got SIGILL on the 16k PAGE_SIZE kernel when I booted 16k PAGE_SIZE the >>>>> first time and ran 'ps'. Subsequent runs of 'ps' didn't reproduce the >>>>> error. Also saw SIGILLs in the bootlog of the 16k PAGE_SIZE kernel when >>>>> "rm" was ran once (couldn't reproduce) and when mdadm tried to put one of >>>>> the arrays back together. Subsequent runs using similar argument lines >>>>> don't reproduce once I got to a root shell. >>>>> >>>>> Being it's a Gentoo install...the o32 userland is pretty fresh. Especially >>>>> on the Octane, where I literally rebuilt the old userland over 2-3 times >>>>> just to make sure all the old 5-year cruft was gone. The n32 userland >>>>> chroot is brand-spanking new. gcc-4.7.x only for now on both, because of >>>>> PR61538 in gcc. Latest binutils. >>>>> >>>>> The O2 is chugging away happily so far in updating a bunch of packages. So >>>>> I am leaning towards this being another quirk I have to hunt down in the >>>>> Octane's code again. There isn't much in the Octane-specific code that >>>>> deals with memory, though -- it seems the higher-level MIPS memory code >>>>> handles most things just fine. >>>> >>>> Can you enable core dumps? I'm wondering about the EPC of the crashed >>>> process. If it's at a function entry or the beginning of a page that >>>> might indicate there is an issue with flushing caches after the containing >>>> page got loaded. Also interesting to know if this possibly happened in a >>>> signal trampoline or VDSO. >>>> >>>> These are just the usual suspects - nothing indicates this case is actually >>>> related. >>> >>> (Missed the reply all on the last one) >>> >>> Enabled coredumps and got the 'shash' program to fail a second time (first >>> program to do so)...so I'll rebuild that with debugging symbols and try to >>> trip it up again later on. >>> >>> Is a core file from a binary w/o debugging of any value? >> >> Yes - it will contain registers etc. Just what really matters in this case. >> We don't need the debug info because we're not interested in debugging the >> application. >> >> Ralf > > Attached. I assume readelf and objdump are used to extract the register > information? Most searches on Google keep pointing me to GDB as if I want > to debug the program. Was anyone able to take a look at the core dump and see if there is anything out of the ordinary? -- Joshua Kinard Gentoo/MIPS kumba@xxxxxxxxxx 4096R/D25D95E3 2011-03-28 "The past tempts us, the present confuses us, the future frightens us. And our lives slip away, moment by moment, lost in that vast, terrible in-between." --Emperor Turhan, Centauri Republic
