Hey All,

I hit some interesting crash with our ARM ST SPEAr320 evaluation board 
using the latest (3.12.3) vanilla kernel.

A small initramfs containing kexec is being included and booted from RAM 
using the latest u-boot. The kernel configuration based on a standard 
spear3xx_defconfig including some stuff for kexec and mass usb storages.

1) How to reproduce

  1. Boot linux
  2. Mount USB mass storage
  3. 'kexec -l' from mounted USB partition
  4. kexec -e
  --> Crash, see file stspear_312_crash

  1. Boot linux
  2. Mount USB-Stick
  2.1 Copy kernel and all other files to /tmp
  2.2 unmount USB mass storage
  2.3. Leaving the USB plugged
  3. 'kexec -l' from /tmp
  4. 'kexec -e'
  --> Crash

  1. Boot linux
  2. Mount USB-Stick
  2.1 Copy kernel and all other files to /tmp
  2.2 Unmount USB mass storage
  2.3. Unplug the usb device
  3. 'kexec -l' from /tmp
  4. kexec -e
  --> Booting. Some mem corrupt. warnings. See file stspear_312_working

2)  cat /proc/version

Linux version 3.12.3 (openembedded@openembedded) (gcc version 4.7.2 
(GCC) ) #1 Thu Dec 5 09:52:37 CET 2013

3) cat /proc/cpuinfo

root@spear320-eval:~# cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor       : 0
model name      : ARM926EJ-S rev 5 (v5l)
Features        : swp half thumb fastmult edsp java
CPU implementer : 0x41
CPU architecture: 5TEJ
CPU variant     : 0x0
CPU part        : 0x926
CPU revision    : 5

Hardware        : ST SPEAr320 SoC with Flattened Device Tree
Revision        : 0000
Serial          : 0000000000000000


4) cat /proc/iomem

root@spear320-eval:~# cat /proc/iomem
00000000-07ffffff : System RAM
   00008000-005537b3 : Kernel code
   00ae6000-00be41af : Kernel data
a3000000-a3000fff : /ahb/apb/serial@a3000000
   a3000000-a3000fff : uart-pl011
b3000000-b3000fff : /ahb/pinmux@b3000000
d0000000-d0000fff : /ahb/apb/serial@d0000000
   d0000000-d0000fff : uart-pl011
d0100000-d0100fff : /ahb/spi@d0100000
   d0100000-d0100fff : ssp-pl022
d0180000-d0180fff : /ahb/apb/i2c@d0180000
e0800000-e0807fff : /ahb/eth@e0800000
e1800000-e1800fff : ehci_hcd
e1900000-e1900fff : ohci_hcd
e2100000-e2100fff : ohci_hcd
fc000000-fc000fff : /ahb/flash@fc000000
fc400000-fc400fff : /ahb/dma@fc400000
   fc400000-fc400fff : pl08xdmac
fc880000-fc880fff : /ahb/apb/wdt@fc880000
   fc880000-fc880fff : sp805_wdt
fc900000-fc900fff : /ahb/apb/rtc@fc900000
fc980000-fc980fff : /ahb/apb/gpio@fc980000
   fc980000-fc980fff : pl061

5) cat /proc/scsi/scsi

Attached devices:
Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00
   Vendor: INTENSO  Model: USB              Rev: 1100
   Type:   Direct-Access                    ANSI  SCSI revision: 00


Best Regards,
Holger

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Holger Adams, DeZem GmbH
phone: +49 30 3180 0730, fax: +49 30 3180 0731