Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 00:23:09 -0700 From: Peter Grehan <grehan@freebsd.org> To: Marek Woloszyn <Marek.Woloszyn@comp-css.pl> Cc: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD on MPC8349 (e300 core) Message-ID: <4875B8DD.5060005@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <619ad8c052767e90.4875c952@comp.waw.pl> References: <619ad8c052767e90.4875c952@comp.waw.pl>
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Hi Marek,
> We have FreeBSD 6.3 running on our Freescale MPC8349 board (e300
> core).
Excellent !
> But, unfortunately, it is not stable and we don't know what to
> do now.
>
> We have added several things to FreeBSD 6.3 to make it work on our
> board: 1. Some workarounds for OpenBIOS. 2. IMISS, DLMISS and DSMISS
> exceptions handlers in trap_subr.S. 3. Other hardware dependent
> stuff.
There is a SoC project this year to port to the Efika platform:
http://wiki.freebsd.org/Porting_FreeBSD_to_Efika_%28PPC_bring_up%29
The *MISS exception handlers are in that, via some patches that Andrew
Turner contributed many moons back.
> We have noticed that there were some errors in pmap: 1. Unnecessary
> ptegidx shift in pmap_pte_insert function (already fixed in 7.0).
Yep, needs to be MFC'd back to RELENG_6.
> 2. Hash table overflows when the system works with high load - caused
> by non-uniform PTE entries distribution in the hash table.
Have you tried increasing the size of the hash table ? That is a simple
workaround. As you may have seen, there is no facility for overflow of
the secondary hash bucket: that is something that could be added.
> Unfortunately we still have problems with the system. We experience
> random processes crashes when the system is starting. It happens
> approximately once for 20 boots. If the system does not crash at the
> startup, everything works fine. We do not know where to look for the
> solution: pmap? vm?
Is it a hang ? A panic ? If the latter, do you have a console trace ?
> Could you help us? Any suggestions were to start or something else we
> could do? Do you plan to work with e300 and e600 cores? And if so,
> when do you plan to implement IMISS, DLMISS and DSMISS exceptions
> handlers? Our might not work properly.
As above, the code from the SoC project will probably make it's way
into the codebase.
later,
Peter.
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