NAND flash driver x86 port problem

Kim Jong-chan kernelhacker at hartford.siteprotect.co.kr
Wed Sep 12 02:55:04 EDT 2001


Recent days, I have ported MTD NAND flash driver to x86, using GeodeGX board.
Module loading is ok. But, when I try to access NAND device, The Kernel says 
what follows and go away...
Using ksymoops, I found that kernel dies in __wake_up.
But I don't know actually which variable causes Null pointer dereferencing.
If I remove all wake_up in nand.c intentionally, all works file. But, I think
that's not a solution.  
Tested kernel includes 
2.4.9(vanilla) 
2.4.2(redhat) + mtd snapshot(20010906)
2.4.2_hhl20(hard hat linux)
all above kernel shows the same phenomenon. 

Here goes oops message

Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000000    
 printing eip:                                                                  
c010eeb3                                                                        
*pde = 00000000                                                                 
Oops: 0000                                                                      
CPU:    0                                                                       
EIP:    0010:[<c010eeb3>]                                                       
EFLAGS: 00010013                                                                
eax: c12eddf4   ebx: 00000000   ecx: 00000001   edx: c12eddf8                   
esi: 00000001   edi: fffffff8   ebp: c6c6fefc   esp: c6c6fee0                   
ds: 0018   es: 0018   ss: 0018                                                  
Process mke2fs (pid: 570, stackpage=c6c6f000)                                   
Stack: c12eddf8 00000001 00000282 00000003 00000001 00000001 c12edddc c028d7c8  
       c881282d 00000000 c6c6e000 00000000 00000000 00000000 c6c6e000 00000000  
       00000000 c76c5628 c76c5620 00000000 fffffff4 c01a9dba c12edd60 c6d37bc0  
Call Trace: [<c881282d>] [<c01a9dba>] [<c0134c52>] [<c012e4a9>] [<c012d4e5>]    
   [<c012d533>] [<c0106d23>]                                                    
                                                                                
Code: 8b 1b 8b 4f 04 8b 01 85 45 f0 74 54 31 c0 9c 5e fa c7 01 00               
Kernel panic: Aiee, killing interrupt handler!                                  
In interrupt handler - not syncing                 






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