Greg Lonnon wrote:
>
> So, my questions are:
> 1) Does anyone have a good way to debug in this small window going
> between kernel mode and user mode for the first time?
Not really. One time I had similar problem. I was able to figure out
the problem by setting breakpoints in fault handlers.
> 2) Is there anything else I could try to prove out that the kernel is
> going into user mode?
Try to set breakpoint in fault handlers.
> 3) Has anyone else had these issues?
>
I found one bug in arch/mm/r4xx0.c, where cache invalidation causes
recursive page faults. See the page below. Not sure if it is fixed in
the tree yet.
diff -Nru linux/arch/mips/mm/r4xx0.c.orig linux/arch/mips/mm/r4xx0.c
--- linux/arch/mips/mm/r4xx0.c.orig Sun Jul 30 20:39:50 2000
+++ linux/arch/mips/mm/r4xx0.c Thu Aug 10 16:08:20 2000
@@ -1972,7 +1972,8 @@
if (!(vma->vm_flags & VM_EXEC))
return;
- blast_icache32_page(address);
+ address = KSEG0 + (address & PAGE_MASK & (dcache_size - 1));
+ blast_icache32_page_indexed(address);
}
/*
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