Hi, The um kernel (Linus's tree as of today) crashes very early during boot-up.
---cut--- $ ./linux Locating the bottom of the address space ... 0x10000 Locating the top of the address space ... 0xc0000000 Core dump limits : soft - 0 hard - NONE Checking that ptrace can change system call numbers...OK Checking syscall emulation patch for ptrace...OK Checking advanced syscall emulation patch for ptrace...OK Checking for tmpfs mount on /dev/shm...nothing mounted on /dev/shm Checking PROT_EXEC mmap in /tmp/...OK Checking for the skas3 patch in the host: - /proc/mm...not found: No such file or directory - PTRACE_FAULTINFO...not found - PTRACE_LDT...not found UML running in SKAS0 mode Aborted ---cut--- Here the gdb backtrace: ---cut--- Program received signal SIGILL, Illegal instruction. kmem_cache_create (name=0x81efe77 "pid", size=44, align=4, flags=270336, ctor=0) at mm/slab.c:2181 2181 BUG(); (gdb) bt #0 kmem_cache_create (name=0x81efe77 "pid", size=44, align=4, flags=270336, ctor=0) at mm/slab.c:2181 #1 0x0804c902 in pidmap_init () at kernel/pid.c:565 #2 0x080494e9 in start_kernel () at init/main.c:591 #3 0x0804a539 in start_kernel_proc (unused=0x0) at arch/um/kernel/skas/process.c:46 #4 0x08063ec2 in run_kernel_thread (fn=0x804a50f <start_kernel_proc>, arg=0x0, jmp_ptr=0x823e7dc) at arch/um/os-Linux/process.c:267 #5 0x08057717 in new_thread_handler () at arch/um/kernel/process.c:153 #6 0x00000000 in ?? () ---cut--- BUG() was trigged by in_interrupt() at mm/slab.c:2181. in_interrupt() returns misleadingly a non-zero value. My first idea was that in_interrupt() returns always a non-zero value, but this is not the case. preempt_count() seems broken in some way. I can reproduce this issue using gcc 4.6.0 on x86 and x86_64 hosts. Now I'm wondering whether this is a gcc or a uml bug. Any ideas where to start? -- Thanks, //richard ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Create and publish websites with WebMatrix Use the most popular FREE web apps or write code yourself; WebMatrix provides all the features you need to develop and publish your website. http://p.sf.net/sfu/ms-webmatrix-sf _______________________________________________ User-mode-linux-devel mailing list User-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/user-mode-linux-devel