JFFS2 Kernel Panic w/Xscale (PXA255) & 2.6.10

[Artem B. Bityuckiy]

On Fri, 2005-02-25 at 16:40 -0500, Craig A. Vanderborgh wrote:
> Hello All:
> 
> This problem was recently reported in the mtd mailing list thread "Oops 
> vanilla 2.6.10" by Konstantin Kletschke.  However, there was no 
> resolution that I could see, so I am reporting it again in hopes that 
> some mtd guru might take pity on us.
> 
> Our platform is a PXA-255 based SBC.  It is running kernel 2.6.10 
> *extremely* well, with one exception - when accessing a VIRGIN jffs2 
> filesystem, we get a kernel panic.  We cannot get past this unless we 
> reload our 2.4.27 kernel and let it do the initial JFFS2 setup stuff.  
> After reloading kernel 2.6.10, everything is then okay.  Just the 
> uninitialized JFFS2 is a problem.  The JFFS2 error(s) and the KP should 
> look familiar:
> 
Hello Craig,

the first steps we ask everybody to do are:
1. try the latest MTD snapshot (download it from CVS);
2. if the problem hasn't gone, enable the JFFS2 debugging messages
(level 1) and send the JFFS2 output.

Please, do it.

-- 
Best Regards,
Artem B. Bityuckiy,
St.-Petersburg, Russia.