RE: Kernel oops while duming user core.

Nathan Lynch wrote:

Hmm, this is the second report of 2.6.24 crashing in
__flush_dcache_icache during a core dump; see:
http://ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2007-December/048662.html
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Is this easily recreatable?

Yes. I have a binary that will do this every time it is started (on this
particular system),=20
only takes about 10 seconds before it dumps.

I was going to test HEAD of powerpc.git to see if it is still there.
I cannot test any earlier versions as our board port was done on 2.6.24.

Our older kernel port is 2.6.18 on arch/ppc, and it works just fine.


One potential clue:

Unable to handle kernel paging request for data at address 0x48024000

this adddress is beyond our physical memory. We have 1GB of mem=20
(CONFIG_HIGH_MEM enabled) so 0x3fff_ffff is the last valid address.
0x4000_0000 to 0x7fff_ffff are unused, 0x8000_0000 to 0x9fff_ffff is
used by PCI.