[BUG][arm-soc] kernel panic in boot on Openblocks with the latest kernel

Heikki Krogerus heikki.krogerus at linux.intel.com
Thu Feb 28 06:34:19 EST 2013


Hi,

On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 08:13:30PM +0900, Masami Hiramatsu wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I tried the latest "fixes" branch of arm-soc.git on OpenBlocks
> AX3 (Marvel Armada-XP) and got below kernel panic in boot sequence.
> It seems that we have an exception while cpu is in idle.
> 
> ----
> Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! exitcode=0x00000200
> 
> Backtrace:
> [<c00113d4>] (dump_backtrace+0x0/0x110) from [<c04a7324>] (dump_stack+0x18/0x1c)
>  r6:ef2bcc00 r5:c06532b0 r4:ef2bcc00 r3:00000001
> [<c04a730c>] (dump_stack+0x0/0x1c) from [<c04a7434>] (panic+0x90/0x1ec)
> [<c04a73a4>] (panic+0x0/0x1ec) from [<c002613c>] (do_exit+0x500/0x960)
>  r3:ef2c0dc0 r2:ef2bcc00 r1:00000200 r0:c0584be1
>  r7:c063e040
> [<c0025c3c>] (do_exit+0x0/0x960) from [<c0026790>] (do_group_exit+0xa4/0xd0)
>  r7:000000f8
> [<c00266ec>] (do_group_exit+0x0/0xd0) from [<c00267d4>] (__wake_up_parent+0x0/0x28)
>  r7:000000f8 r6:0000003c r5:bee6bf14 r4:000703ae
> [<c00267bc>] (sys_exit_group+0x0/0x18) from [<c000d8c0>] (ret_fast_syscall+0x0/0x30)
> CPU0: stopping
> Backtrace:
> [<c00113d4>] (dump_backtrace+0x0/0x110) from [<c04a7324>] (dump_stack+0x18/0x1c)
>  r6:c063df48 r5:00000000 r4:c0688e98 r3:c064def4
> [<c04a730c>] (dump_stack+0x0/0x1c) from [<c00128f4>] (handle_IPI+0xc8/0x12c)
> [<c001282c>] (handle_IPI+0x0/0x12c) from [<c00085a0>]
> (armada_370_xp_handle_irq+0x98/0xb0)
>  r5:c0689070 r4:00000005
> [<c0008508>] (armada_370_xp_handle_irq+0x0/0xb0) from [<c04ae680>]
> (__irq_svc+0x40/0x50)
> Exception stack(0xc063df48 to 0xc063df90)
> df40:                   ffffffed 00000000 027ac000 60000013 c063c000 c0688c88
> df60: c04b5518 c2ddffc0 0000406a 562f5842 00000000 c063dfac c063df90 c063df90
> df80: c000e588 c000e590 60000013 ffffffff
> [<c000e4d8>] (cpu_idle+0x0/0x104) from [<c04a266c>] (rest_init+0x64/0x7c)
>  r6:c0625a50 r5:00000000 r4:c06450e0 r3:00000000
> [<c04a2608>] (rest_init+0x0/0x7c) from [<c05fb848>] (start_kernel+0x2d4/0x32c)
> [<c05fb574>] (start_kernel+0x0/0x32c) from [<00008074>] (0x8074)
> ----
> 
> And I found that this panic also happened on the latest linus tree.
> Git-bisect told me that the 8250 serial driver patch is the first bad
> commit.
> 
> serial: 8250_dw: Don't use UPF_FIXED_TYPE
> 
> 966c4e39b5f7f249d7bb4c409176c9e6c5d48025

I'm assuming this is the same issue Gregory already reported. Can you
try the attached diff, and tell if it fixes the issue?

Thanks,

-- 
heikki
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