Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030189AbWADJ2w (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Jan 2006 04:28:52 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030190AbWADJ2v (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Jan 2006 04:28:51 -0500 Received: from general.keba.co.at ([193.154.24.243]:8358 "EHLO helga.keba.co.at") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030189AbWADJ2v convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Jan 2006 04:28:51 -0500 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5.7226.0 Content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Subject: RE: Latency traces I cannot interpret (sa1100, 2.6.15-rc7-rt1) Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2006 10:28:40 +0100 Message-ID: X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: Latency traces I cannot interpret (sa1100, 2.6.15-rc7-rt1) Thread-Index: AcYQcF34B1nTsxHXR3ipoHL7OvRAMgAn5TpQ From: "kus Kusche Klaus" To: "Daniel Walker" Cc: "Ingo Molnar" , "Lee Revell" , "linux-kernel" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1205 Lines: 29 > From: Daniel Walker > Ok, yet another patch. This one uses the correct lowlevel calls, and I > fixed the call ordering. Hmm, I have no deep knowledge of ARM assembler programming, but your patch branches to a C subroutine without setting up a return address in the lr register. Hence, the return in trace_irqs_... jumps to god-knows-where, but not back to the next instruction. As a wild guess, I replaced the "b trace_irqs_..." with "bl trace_irqs_...". With this change, the kernel boots fine, but the system seems to go into an infinite loop as soon as the first usermode processes start. Most likely, my change messes up the lr register of some surrounding context. -- Klaus Kusche (Software Development - Control Systems) KEBA AG Gewerbepark Urfahr, A-4041 Linz, Austria (Europe) Tel: +43 / 732 / 7090-3120 Fax: +43 / 732 / 7090-6301 E-Mail: kus@keba.com WWW: www.keba.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/