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vmlinux*
System.map
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S: Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications, Paris

N: Jamie Lokier
E: jamie@imbolc.ucc.ie
E: jamie@shareable.org
W: http://www.shareable.org/
D: Reboot-through-BIOS for broken 486 motherboards
D: Some parport fixes
S: 11 Goodson Walk
S: Marston
D: Parport fixes, futex improvements
D: First instruction of x86 sysenter path :)
S: 51 Sunningwell Road
S: Oxford
S: OX3 0HX
S: OX1 4SZ
S: United Kingdom

N: Mark Lord
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Table of contents
=================

Last updated: 20 December 2005

Contents
========

- Introduction
- Devices not appearing
- Finding patch that caused a bug
-- Finding using git-bisect
-- Finding it the old way
- Fixing the bug

Introduction
============

Always try the latest kernel from kernel.org and build from source. If you are
not confident in doing that please report the bug to your distribution vendor
instead of to a kernel developer.

Finding bugs is not always easy. Have a go though. If you can't find it don't
give up. Report as much as you have found to the relevant maintainer. See
MAINTAINERS for who that is for the subsystem you have worked on.

Before you submit a bug report read REPORTING-BUGS.

Devices not appearing
=====================

Often this is caused by udev. Check that first before blaming it on the
kernel.

Finding patch that caused a bug
===============================



Finding using git-bisect
------------------------

Using the provided tools with git makes finding bugs easy provided the bug is
reproducible.

Steps to do it:
- start using git for the kernel source
- read the man page for git-bisect
- have fun

Finding it the old way
----------------------

[Sat Mar 2 10:32:33 PST 1996 KERNEL_BUG-HOWTO lm@sgi.com (Larry McVoy)]

This is how to track down a bug if you know nothing about kernel hacking.
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because Linux snapshots will let you do this - something that you can't
do with vendor supplied releases.

Fixing the bug
==============

Nobody is going to tell you how to fix bugs. Seriously. You need to work it
out. But below are some hints on how to use the tools.

To debug a kernel, use objdump and look for the hex offset from the crash
output to find the valid line of code/assembler. Without debug symbols, you
will see the assembler code for the routine shown, but if your kernel has
debug symbols the C code will also be available. (Debug symbols can be enabled
in the kernel hacking menu of the menu configuration.) For example:

objdump -r -S -l --disassemble net/dccp/ipv4.o

NB.: you need to be at the top level of the kernel tree for this to pick up
your C files.

If you don't have access to the code you can also debug on some crash dumps
e.g. crash dump output as shown by Dave Miller.

> EIP is at ip_queue_xmit+0x14/0x4c0
> ...
> Code: 44 24 04 e8 6f 05 00 00 e9 e8 fe ff ff 8d 76 00 8d bc 27 00 00
> 00 00 55 57 56 53 81 ec bc 00 00 00 8b ac 24 d0 00 00 00 8b 5d 08
> <8b> 83 3c 01 00 00 89 44 24 14 8b 45 28 85 c0 89 44 24 18 0f 85
>
> Put the bytes into a "foo.s" file like this:
>
> .text
> .globl foo
> foo:
> .byte .... /* bytes from Code: part of OOPS dump */
>
> Compile it with "gcc -c -o foo.o foo.s" then look at the output of
> "objdump --disassemble foo.o".
>
> Output:
>
> ip_queue_xmit:
> push %ebp
> push %edi
> push %esi
> push %ebx
> sub $0xbc, %esp
> mov 0xd0(%esp), %ebp ! %ebp = arg0 (skb)
> mov 0x8(%ebp), %ebx ! %ebx = skb->sk
> mov 0x13c(%ebx), %eax ! %eax = inet_sk(sk)->opt

Another very useful option of the Kernel Hacking section in menuconfig is
Debug memory allocations. This will help you see whether data has been
initialised and not set before use etc. To see the values that get assigned
with this look at mm/slab.c and search for POISON_INUSE. When using this an
Oops will often show the poisoned data instead of zero which is the default.

Once you have worked out a fix please submit it upstream. After all open
source is about sharing what you do and don't you want to be recognised for
your genius?

Please do read Documentation/SubmittingPatches though to help your code get
accepted.
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###
# The targets that may be used.
.PHONY: xmldocs sgmldocs psdocs pdfdocs htmldocs mandocs installmandocs
PHONY += xmldocs sgmldocs psdocs pdfdocs htmldocs mandocs installmandocs

BOOKS := $(addprefix $(obj)/,$(DOCBOOKS))
xmldocs: $(BOOKS)
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#man put files in man subdir - traverse down
subdir- := man/


# Declare the contents of the .PHONY variable as phony. We keep that
# information in a variable se we can use it in if_changed and friends.

.PHONY: $(PHONY)
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</para>
</sect1>

<sect1>
<title>ISA legacy functions</title>
<para>
On older kernels (2.2 and earlier) the ISA bus could be read or
written with these functions and without ioremap being used. This is
no longer true in Linux 2.4. A set of equivalent functions exist for
easy legacy driver porting. The functions available are prefixed
with 'isa_' and are <function>isa_readb</function>,
<function>isa_writeb</function>, <function>isa_readw</function>,
<function>isa_writew</function>, <function>isa_readl</function>,
<function>isa_writel</function>, <function>isa_memcpy_fromio</function>
and <function>isa_memcpy_toio</function>
</para>
<para>
These functions should not be used in new drivers, and will
eventually be going away.
</para>
</sect1>

</chapter>

<chapter>
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struct foo *new_fp;
struct foo *old_fp;

new_fp = kmalloc(sizeof(*fp), GFP_KERNEL);
new_fp = kmalloc(sizeof(*new_fp), GFP_KERNEL);
spin_lock(&foo_mutex);
old_fp = gbl_foo;
*new_fp = *old_fp;
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struct foo *new_fp;
struct foo *old_fp;

new_fp = kmalloc(sizeof(*fp), GFP_KERNEL);
new_fp = kmalloc(sizeof(*new_fp), GFP_KERNEL);
spin_lock(&foo_mutex);
old_fp = gbl_foo;
*new_fp = *old_fp;
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mknod -m 0200 $dir/discover c $MAJOR 3
rm -f $dir/interfaces
mknod -m 0200 $dir/interfaces c $MAJOR 4
rm -f $dir/revalidate
mknod -m 0200 $dir/revalidate c $MAJOR 5

export n_partitions
mkshelf=`echo $0 | sed 's!mkdevs!mkshelf!'`
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SUBSYSTEM="aoe", KERNEL="discover", NAME="etherd/%k", GROUP="disk", MODE="0220"
SUBSYSTEM="aoe", KERNEL="err", NAME="etherd/%k", GROUP="disk", MODE="0440"
SUBSYSTEM="aoe", KERNEL="interfaces", NAME="etherd/%k", GROUP="disk", MODE="0220"
SUBSYSTEM="aoe", KERNEL="revalidate", NAME="etherd/%k", GROUP="disk", MODE="0220"

# aoe block devices
KERNEL="etherd*", NAME="%k", GROUP="disk"
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In either case, the following conditions must be met:

- Quiesce all DMA capable devicess so that memory does not get
- Quiesce all DMA capable devices so that memory does not get
corrupted by bogus network packets or disk data. This will save
you many hours of debug.

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Although modularisation is supported (and required for the FP emulator),
each module on an ARM2/ARM250/ARM3 machine when is loaded will take
memory up to the next 32k boundary due to the size of the pages.
Therefore, modularisation on these machines really worth it?
Therefore, is modularisation on these machines really worth it?

However, ARM6 and up machines allow modules to take multiples of 4k, and
as such Acorn RiscPCs and other architectures using these processors can
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A couple of bootloaders able to boot Linux on Assabet are available:

BLOB (http://www.lart.tudelft.nl/lartware/blob/)
BLOB (http://www.lartmaker.nl/lartware/blob/)

BLOB is a bootloader used within the LART project. Some contributed
patches were merged into BLOB to add support for Assabet.
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planning.

The hardware designs for this board have been released under an open license;
see the LART page at http://www.lart.tudelft.nl/ for more information.
see the LART page at http://www.lartmaker.nl/ for more information.
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by the 's3c2410' architecture of ARM Linux. Currently the S3C2410 and
the S3C2440 are supported CPUs.

Support for the S3C2400 series is in progress.


Configuration
-------------
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A general purpose development board, see EB2410ITX.txt for further
details

Simtec Electronics IM2440D20 (Osiris)

CPU Module from Simtec Electronics, with a S3C2440A CPU, nand flash
and a PCMCIA controller.

Samsung SMDK2410

Samsung's own development board, geared for PDA work.
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mailing list information.


I2C
---

The hardware I2C core in the CPU is supported in single master
mode, and can be configured via platform data.


RTC
---

Support for the onboard RTC unit, including alarm function.


Watchdog
--------

The onchip watchdog is available via the standard watchdog
interface.


NAND
----

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various clock units


Suspend to RAM
--------------

For boards that provide support for suspend to RAM, the
system can be placed into low power suspend.

See Suspend.txt for more information.


Platform Data
-------------

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exported outside arch/arm/mach-s3c2410/, or exported to
modules via EXPORT_SYMBOL() and related functions.


Port Contributors
-----------------

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08 Mar 2005 - BJD - Added LCVR to list of people, updated introduction
08 Mar 2005 - BJD - Added section on adding machines
09 Sep 2005 - BJD - Added section on platform data
11 Feb 2006 - BJD - Added I2C, RTC and Watchdog sections
11 Feb 2006 - BJD - Added Osiris machine, and S3C2400 information


Document Author
---------------

Ben Dooks, (c) 2004-2005 Simtec Electronics
Ben Dooks, (c) 2004-2005,2006 Simtec Electronics
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video_y

This describes the character position of cursor on VGA console, and
is otherwise unused. (should not used for other console types, and
is otherwise unused. (should not be used for other console types, and
should not be used for other purposes).

memc_control_reg
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