Stefan Roese <m...@stefan-roese.de> wrote on 2011/04/13 16:32:21: > > Hi, > > I noticed that ftrace doesn't seem to work on MPC8xx. I'm trying to use it on > an MPC855T board, but ftrace oopses upon startup: > > [ 0.028785] ftrace: allocating 10312 entries in 31 pages > [ 0.038594] ------------[ cut here ]------------ > [ 0.038760] WARNING: at kernel/trace/ftrace.c:1014 > [ 0.038889] Modules linked in: > [ 0.039062] NIP: c00666a0 LR: c006782c CTR: 00000001 > [ 0.039249] REGS: c0381e60 TRAP: 0700 Not tainted (2.6.38-default+) > [ 0.039417] MSR: 00021032 <ME,CE,IR,DR> CR: 53009393 XER: a000af7f > [ 0.039856] TASK = c0360500[0] 'swapper' THREAD: c0380000 > [ 0.040001] GPR00: 00000001 c0381f10 c0360500 ffffffff c02962c8 00000000 > c02962c4 00000000 > [ 0.040487] GPR08: 1de1a3e3 00000000 000258e3 c0381f40 93009399 10091a60 > 03fff800 0040055c > [ 0.040977] GPR16: 00000001 00000001 ffffffff 007fff00 03ff9fb0 00000000 > 00000000 c0384080 > [ 0.041459] GPR24: c000f234 00000000 024acd00 00009032 c02962c8 c384553c > c02962c8 c0381f10 > [ 0.042054] NIP [c00666a0] ftrace_bug+0x13c/0x1c4 > [ 0.042268] LR [c006782c] ftrace_process_locs+0x1b4/0x2b0 > [ 0.042405] Call Trace: > [ 0.042592] [c0381f10] [c006fce8] ftrace_now+0x30/0x78 (unreliable) > [ 0.042889] [c0381f40] [c006782c] ftrace_process_locs+0x1b4/0x2b0 > [ 0.043182] [c0381f70] [c0339944] ftrace_init+0x1e8/0x21c > [ 0.043443] [c0381fb0] [c0333964] start_kernel+0x284/0x2a0 > [ 0.043704] [c0381ff0] [c0002224] start_here+0x44/0xa8 > [ 0.043869] Instruction dump: > [ 0.044013] 2f9e0003 7f1ed800 3bbd0001 7f44d378 409dffc8 3c60c02f 3863101c > 4bfbbbb9 > [ 0.044508] 48000080 3d20c04b 8929bc82 69200001 <0f000000> 2f890000 > 40be0010 38000001 > [ 0.045206] ---[ end trace 31fd0ba7d8756001 ]--- > [ 0.045349] ftrace faulted on writing [<c02962c8>] dns_query+0x8/0x278 > ... > > > This is on a 2.6.38 kernel (2.6.32 fails too). Debugging shows that > __copy_tofrom_user() fails with return code 4 (called via > ftrace_modify_code()). > > Before digging deeper: Has anybody tried/tested ftrace on MPC8xx? Any ideas > what going wrong here?
Just an idea, remove the usage of dcbX insn, these has been problematic before. How big was the size to copy_tofrom_user()? Did it mange to copy any bytes? Jocke _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/linuxppc-dev