> So here is a debugging patch that will trace the execution of mem_init() so > that we can perhaps figure out which part causes this crash. It's after mem_init as below. > Another thing you can do is type ".registers" when you get that firmware > prompt after the crash. It will spit out some cpu state. Booting Linux... CENTRAL: Detected 5 slot Enterprise system. cfreg[68] cver[78] FHC(board 1): Version[1] PartID[fa0] Manuf[3e] (CENTRAL) FHC(board 3): Version[1] PartID[fa0] Manuf[3e] (JTAG Master) FHC(board 1): Version[1] PartID[fa0] Manuf[3e] FHC(board 5): Version[1] PartID[fa0] Manuf[3e] Built 1 zonelists in Zone order, mobility grouping on. Total pages: 161646 Kernel command line: root=/dev/sda2 ro debug PID hash table entries: 4096 (order: 12, 32768 bytes) clocksource: mult[28000] shift[16] clockevent: mult[66666666] shift[32] Console: colour dummy device 80x25 console [tty0] enabled Dentry cache hash table entries: 262144 (order: 8, 2097152 bytes) Inode-cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 1048576 bytes) mem_init(): ENTER mem_init(): memset() on sparc64_valid_addr_bitmap(fffff8000032d180) mem_init(): setup_valid_addr_bitmap_from_pavail() mem_init(): free_bootmem() mem_init(): Allocate mem_map_zero() Memory: 1276264k available (2856k kernel code, 1136k data, 168k init) [fffff80000000000,000000004fcfa000] SLUB: Genslabs=13, HWalign=32, Order=0-3, MinObjects=0, CPUs=8, Nodes=1 Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 801.67 BogoMIPS (lpj=4008382) Mount-cache hash table entries: 512 Fast Data Access MMU Miss {7} ok .registers Normal Alternate MMU Vector 0: 0 0 0 0 1: 781100 6 fff9f6d0 ffffffffffffffff 2: 798c00 1ccf8207c08 f0000000 f0000000 3: fffd0000 1 1 fffd0000 4: deadbeef 1ccf8207c10 1 f004c99c 5: deadbeef 1 f aa 6: deadbeef 200000 fffd0000 fff9f000 7: 10 0 68 7 %PC 5813c0 %nPC 5813c4 %TBA f0000000 %CCR 44 XCC:nZvc ICC:nZvc -- Meelis Roos (mroos@xxxxx) http://www.cs.ut.ee/~mroos/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe sparclinux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html