debugging
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- okay, here are some hints for debugging the lower-level parts of
- linux/parisc.
- 1. Absolute addresses
- A lot of the assembly code currently runs in real mode, which means
- absolute addresses are used instead of virtual addresses as in the
- rest of the kernel. To translate an absolute address to a virtual
- address you can lookup in System.map, add __PAGE_OFFSET (0xc0000000
- currently).
- 2. HPMCs
- When real-mode code tries to access non-existent memory, you'll get
- an HPMC instead of a kernel oops. To debug an HPMC, try to find
- the System Responder/Requestor addresses. The System Requestor
- address should match (one of the) processor HPAs (high addresses in
- the I/O range); the System Responder address is the address real-mode
- code tried to access.
- Typical values for the System Responder address are addresses larger
- than __PAGE_OFFSET (0xc0000000) which mean a virtual address didn't
- get translated to a physical address before real-mode code tried to
- access it.
- 3. Q bit fun
- Certain, very critical code has to clear the Q bit in the PSW. What
- happens when the Q bit is cleared is the CPU does not update the
- registers interruption handlers read to find out where the machine
- was interrupted - so if you get an interruption between the instruction
- that clears the Q bit and the RFI that sets it again you don't know
- where exactly it happened. If you're lucky the IAOQ will point to the
- instrucion that cleared the Q bit, if you're not it points anywhere
- at all. Usually Q bit problems will show themselves in unexplainable
- system hangs or running off the end of physical memory.