Context switch throws out
Leon Pollak
leonp at plris.com
Sun Sep 7 14:26:56 UTC 2003
OK, I found the answer by myself :-))
The interrupt service code of mbx8xx BSP was written in assumption that memory
translation and caching are ON. I decided to turn them OFF for the starting
phase, but there is some code, which turns them on unconditionally.
Thanks to those who read this. :-))
On Sunday 07 September 2003 15:06, Leon Pollak wrote:
> Hello,
> Slowly, slowly, I came to the phase of the first context switch on my
> mbx860 derived board. It the uses new_exception_processing, as I was able
> to determine.
> With the bdm interfaced debugger I can follow the execution up to the end
> of _CPU_Context_switch function, where everything seems to be OK. Before
> the last instruction execution (blr) the link register contains the address
> of the _Thread_Handler function. I suppose that this is OK and make one
> stepi command.
> The result is very strange: the PC jumps somewhere inside
> push_normalized_frame routine (?), while the assembler code at the address
> of _Thread_Handler looks corrupted.
> All my attempts to determine when the _Thread_Handler becomes corrupted
> shows that this happens exactly after the blr command execution, which
> seems to be noncense...
>
> Any hint about where to look which be VERY highly appreciated...:-))
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