On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 03:53:27PM -0800, Ming Lei wrote:

I used the vanilla linux 2.6.30 and compiled with mpc85xx_defconfig(enable CONFIG_BOOK_WDT) and then ran on 8548CDS and soon after I saw the prompt I hit this watchdog.
 
bash-2.04# PowerPC Book-E Watchdog Exception
NIP: c000b740 LR: c00088dc CTR: c000b6b0
REGS: cfffbf10 TRAP: 3202   Not tainted  (2.6.30)
MSR: 00029000 <EE,ME,CE>  CR: 28028048  XER: 20000000
TASK = c04f4458[0] 'swapper' THREAD: c052c000
GPR00: c000b6b0 c052df90 c04f4458 00800000 80804080 0000001d c053af48 00069000 
GPR08: ffffffff 00000000 08954400 00000000 002167ee 7f652f31 0ffad800 0fff0000 
GPR16: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 f30a620b 0ff50450 00000000 
GPR24: 00000000 00000000 c053506c c0534fa0 c0534fa0 c052c034 00000008 c052c000 
NIP [c000b740] e500_idle+0x90/0x94
LR [c00088dc] cpu_idle+0x98/0xec
Call Trace:
[c052df90] [c000889c] cpu_idle+0x58/0xec (unreliable)
[c052dfb0] [c00023ec] rest_init+0x5c/0x70
[c052dfc0] [c04c16f4] start_kernel+0x22c/0x290
[c052dff0] [c0000398] skpinv+0x2b0/0x2ec
Instruction dump:
7c90faa6 548402ce 7c841b78 4c00012c 7c90fba6 4c00012c 7ce000a6 64e70004 
60e78000 7c0004ac 7ce00124 4c00012c <48000000> 812b00a0 912b0090 39600000 

Have anyone seen this before? Why the EE bit is on in the stack trace?
I put show_regs in watchdog exception handler in traps.c. I verified
that EE is off when entering the watchdog exception handler. Can I
trust this stack trace?

EE is there because it was set in the context that got interrupted, just
as all the other state is for the interrupted context.

-Scott