Porting linux to Stellaris Cortex-M3

Fernando Endo fernando.endo at phiinnovations.com
Tue Sep 27 09:15:44 EDT 2011


2011/9/27 Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>:
> On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 10:29:06AM +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
>> On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 05:19:39PM -0300, Fernando Endo wrote:
>> > - BUG: scheduling while atomic: init/1/0xffff000a
>>
>> The last figure is the preempt count.  This is made up from:
>>
>>  * - bits 0-7 are the preemption count (max preemption depth: 256)
>>  * - bits 8-15 are the softirq count (max # of softirqs: 256)
>>  * - bits 16-25 are the hardirq count (max # of nested hardirqs: 1024)
>>  * - bit 26 is the NMI_MASK
>>  * - bit 28 is the PREEMPT_ACTIVE flag
>>
>> That seems to be saying that preemption has been disabled 10 times.
>> The upper 16-bits being all-ones seems to be rather insane - maybe
>> there's an additional __irq_exit() or irq_exit() call somewhere in
>> one of your code paths.
>
> Fernando, do you have CONFIG_PREEMPT enabled in your kernel? That's not
> currently possible with my Cortex-M3 port (see the "Exception handling"
> section in the M3 wiki page for an explanation).

I set CONFIG_PREEMPT_NONE after having this bug, my .config is
attached if you want to have a look
Thank you both for the advices, I'll take a look

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Fernando Akira Endo
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