Hi All, I'm a newbie to embedded linux and trying to port linux onto AMD Elan SC520 processor with x86 architecture. I built the kernel and loaded into the target. when I try to run the linux in the target, I'm getting the following error and the system is getting hanged.
The error is : Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address
00000f2c current->tss.cr3 = 00101000, %cr3 = 00101000
*pde = 00000000 Oops: 0000 CPU: 0 EIP: 0010:[] EFLAGS: 00010286 eax: c01ddfa0 ebx: c01dc000 ecx: c01cb5d8 edx: 00000000 esi: c01ddfd4 edi: c0230808 ebp: 00000f00 esp: c01ddf08 ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018 Process swapper (pid: 0, process nr: 0, stackpage=c01dd000) Stack: c01ddf28 c010fc89 c009c000 00000f00 c01060d0 00000282 c01ddfa0
00000f00 00000001 c011250e 00000001 00000001 c0108d77 00000001 00000000
00000000 00000000 c01f9ea0 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 c01ebd37 Call Trace: [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] Code: 8b 45 2c 83 e0 03 83 f8 03 ba 01 00 00 00 74 0d 81 c4 8c 00 Kernel panic: Attempted to kill the idle task! In swapper task - not syncing
I tried to debug the code and found out that this error is occuring when the Kernel_Thread() is called from the /linux/init/main.c file. Can anybody please tell me what may be the problem and suggest me how to do a step by step debugging of the code in the target. your earliest reply would help me a lot.
with Regards, Kishore.S.Kumar.