Hi, I am using linux-2.6.9 on MPC7447A. I got a weird crash: --- begin --- Oops: kernel access of bad area, sig: 11 [#1] PREEMPT NIP: 1001B7DC LR: 1000136C SP: 7FFFFD00 REGS: cf109f50 TRAP: 0300 Not tainted MSR: 0000f932 EE: 1 PR: 1 FP: 1 ME: 1 IR/DR: 11 DAR: 80001F76, DSISR: 42000000 TASK = cf958090[3222] 'crashme' THREAD: cf108000Last syscall: 27 GPR00: 000007D0 7FFFFD00 30014074 0000000A 10001B5C 28000444 0000000A 0FF517D8 GPR08: 0000F932 1001B7D0 00001032 FFFFFDFC CF108000 1001ABA0 0FF34700 00000000 GPR16: 00000001 30014978 65786563 7FFFFA38 00000000 00000001 00000001 00000000 GPR24: 0FFECF9C 00000007 100013A0 7FFFFE58 7FFFFE04 10010000 0FFE568F 7FFFFD00 NIP [1001b7dc] 0x1001b7dc LR [1000136c] 0x1000136c note: crashme[3222] exited with preempt_count 15 bad: scheduling while atomic! Call trace: [c000bedc] dump_stack+0x18/0x28 [c0204940] schedule+0x680/0x684 [c004e4fc] unmap_vmas+0x1ec/0x208 [c0054e24] exit_mmap+0x74/0x174 [c00199ac] mmput+0x94/0x100 [c001ef88] do_exit+0x208/0x5b0 [c0008844] die+0xdc/0xf4 [c0012eb4] bad_page_fault+0x5c/0x60 [c0008320] handle_page_fault+0x7c/0x80 --- end --- I have added a few drivers to the kernel. But I doubt it is a issue with that. Any insights ? Cheers, niTin -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/