init process not running

Hi,

I'm porting the kernel (tried a 2.6.9 and 2.6.13) to an ACTIS Computer board (MPC8560, e500 core), and I have a strange problem.

Everything seems all right, but the init process does not start.

I have an echo from the tty (cpm2 SCC1), so the kernel is not crashed. I even got the ticker.

I first thought I had a problem with the console but if I use another init process (using another process from the ramdisk, mke2fs), nothing happens either.
I tried to replace the init process by another process which simply returns (eventually after a printf("Hello world") ), so the kernel would panic, but still nothing.
Tried to create a syscall which reboots the board, and call it from the hello_world, nothing.
Tried to use an "init=/unexisting/process", and this skips to the next possibility (/sbin/init), so the ramfs seem good, tried another ramfs, which is running correctly on annother ppc board, but still the same problem.

anyhow the "do_execve" is successfull.

The scheduler seems to be scheduling pid 3 and 8, it tries to wake up pid 1, but its "old_state" is 0. changing the state to 1 in "start_thread" does not fix this.

when a task is created, usualy "wake_up_new_task" is called, but not here (but this is the first task using execve).

Does anyone have a clue about what I did wrong, or where and what to look at?

Thanks a lot for your help.
Following two traces of the boot process, one with the 2.6.9, one with the 2.6.13.2

Here is a trace of the boot process with the 2.6.9 kernel (# represent the second):

Loading ELF headers...done

Loading segment #0 at 0x00800000....................................................................................e Loading extra data at 0x00a33000....done

Lowest address:  0x00800000
Entry address:   0x00800000
Highest address: 0x00a3474e
Bytes loaded:    2312014

loaded at:     00800000 00A353CC
board data at: 00A3312C 00A3334C
relocated to:  00805090 008052B0
zimage at:     00805A21 00892EB8
initrd at:     00893000 00A32F88
avail ram:     00A36000 20000000

Linux/PPC load: rw console=ttyS0 root=/dev/ram0 init=/sbin/nath

Uncompressing Linux...done

Memory CAM mapping: CAM0=256Mb, CAM1=256Mb, CAM2=0Mb residual: 0Mb
Linux version 2.6.9-3 #174 Thu Oct 6 11:34:23 CEST 2005
cpm2_immr address (0xfff80000) remapped to 0xfdfc0000
Built 1 zonelists
Kernel command line: rw console=ttyS0 root=/dev/ram0 init=/sbin/nath OpenPIC Version 1.2 (1 CPUs and 44 IRQ sources) at fdb7d000
PID hash table entries: 4096 (order: 12, 65536 bytes)
###Dentry cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes) #Inode-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
#Memory: 516096k available (888k kernel code, 340k data, 68k init, 0k highmem) Mount-cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
NATH: rest_init: going to kernel_thread
checking if image is initramfs...##########it isn't (no cpio magic); looks like an initrd Freeing initrd memory: 1663k freed
Linux NoNET1.0 for Linux 2.6
#<6>PCI: Probing PCI hardware
Serial: CPM driver $Revision: 0.01b $
ttyS0 at MMIO 0xfdfd1a00 (irq = 40) is a CPM UART
#RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 8192K size 1024 blocksize
loop: loaded (max 8 devices)
Using anticipatory io scheduler
###########VFS: NATH: fs_names = ext2, name = /dev/root
VFS: Mounted root /dev/root (ext2 filesystem).
NATH: init: run_init_process, /sbin/nath
NATH: init: run_init_process, /sbin/init
#####################################################################

Here is a trace of the boot process with the 2.6.13 kernel:

Loading ELF headers...done

Loading segment #0 at 0x00800000...........................................................................e Loading extra data at 0x00a41000........................done

Lowest address:  0x00800000
Entry address:   0x00800000
Highest address: 0x00a6ad8e
Bytes loaded:    2534798

loaded at:     00800000 00A433CC
board data at: 00A4112C 00A4134C
relocated to:  00805090 008052B0
zimage at:     00805A71 008A020B
initrd at:     008A1000 00A40F88
avail ram:     00A44000 20000000

Linux/PPC load: rw console=ttyS0 root=/dev/ram
Uncompressing Linux...done.
Now booting the kernel
Memory CAM mapping: CAM0=256Mb, CAM1=256Mb, CAM2=0Mb residual: 0Mb
Linux version 2.6.13-3 (nathael@linux-bbe) (gcc version 3.3.3) #62 Wed Oct 12 10:43:49 CEST 2005 cpm2_immr address (0xfff80000) remapped to 0xfdfc0000
Built 1 zonelistchecking if image is initramfs...it isn't (no cpio magic); looks like an initrd Freeing initrd memory: 1663k freed
s
Kernel command line: rw console=ttyS0 root=/dev/ram
OpenPIC Version 1.2 (1 CPUs and 44 IRQ sources) at fdb7d000
PID hash table entries: 4096 (order: 12, 65536 bytes)
Dentry cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Memory: 515968k available (952k kernel code, 484k data, 88k init, 0k highmem) Mount-cache hash table entries: 512
checking if image is initramfs...it isn't (no cpio magic); looks like an initrd Freeing initrd memory: 1663k freed
Linux NoNET1.0 for Linux 2.6
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
Macintosh non-volatile memory driver v1.1
Serial: CPM driver $Revision: 0.01b $
ttyS0 at MMIO 0xfdfd1a00 (irq = 40) is a CPM UART
io scheduler noop registered
io scheduler anticipatory registered
io scheduler deadline registered
io scheduler cfq registered
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 8192K size 1024 blocksize
loop: loaded (max 8 devices)
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
Freeing unused kernel memory: 88k init
NATH: init: run_init_process, /sbin/init
NATH: sys_execve called.
NATH: do_execve: prepare_binprm done

NIP: 10000100 LR: 00000000 SP: 7F9ECF10 REGS: c089ff00 TRAP: 0c01 Not tainted
MSR: 0002d002 EE: 1 PR: 1 FP: 0 ME: 1 IR/DR: 00
TASK = c0a4eb70[1] 'init' THREAD: c089e000
State: 0
Last syscall: 11
GPR00: 00000000 7F9ECF10 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
GPR08: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
NIP [10000100] 0x10000100
LR [00000000] 0x0

NATH: load_elf_binary: OK
NATH: do_execve: success.
NATH: sys_execve: end.
NATH: try_to_wake_up, pid: 1, old_state: 0, state_mask: 1
NATH: try_to_wake_up, pid: 1, old_state: 0, state_mask: 1
NATH: try_to_wake_up, pid: 1, old_state: 0, state_mask: 1
NATH: try_to_wake_up, pid: 1, old_state: 0, state_mask: 1
NATH: try_to_wake_up, pid: 1, old_state: 0, state_mask: 1
NATH: try_to_wake_up, pid: 8, old_state: 1, state_mask: 15
NATH: activate_task, pid: 8, state: 1
NATH: try_to_wake_up, pid: 3, old_state: 1, state_mask: 3
NATH: activate_task, pid: 3, state: 1
.......

Nathaël PAJANI
CPE Lyon

What about your UART driver and interrupt controller? I had such experience before and it turned out to be a problem in interrupt controller driver. The serial driver uses interrupt mode to operate UART once init gets called.

Just my 2 cents.

-Shawn.