Re: Ingo's realtime_preempt patch causes kernel oops

[Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com>]

On Tue, 2006-05-23 at 10:19 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:

> 
> The fault is at 0x40 and looking at profile_tick it calls
> user_mode(regs).  user_mode(x) is defined in arm as 
>    (((regs)->ARM_cpsr & 0xf) == 0)
> 
> And ARM_cpsr is uregs[16]  So if arm has 4 byte words and regs was NULL,
> it would fault on 16*4 = 64 or 0x40
> 
> It looks like the timer interrupt on this board is having a NULL regs
> passed to it when hard interrupts are threads.  Which might mean that
> the timer interrupt is itself a thread.

Hmm, well usually ARM timer interrupts have the SA_TIMER flag .. In
realtime ARM changes SA_TIMER includes SA_NODELAY .. 

In 2.6.17-rc4 

arch/arm/mach-at91rm9200/time.c

static struct irqaction at91rm9200_timer_irq = {
        .name           = "at91_tick",
        .flags          = SA_SHIRQ | SA_INTERRUPT,
        .handler        = at91rm9200_timer_interrupt
};

No SA_TIMER, and no SA_NODELAY , so i'd imagine it's is in a thread .. 

Daniel

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