Hello MIPS Linux community, We are trying to use Linux kernel vmcore feature to capture the kernel crash information on Cavium octeon board. Particularly on octeon2 (68xx) board. Could you please help in finding a way to debug this. Issue is, when the second kernel is getting booted, at the very initial stage of kernel boot we are getting "Kernel unaligned instruction access[#1]:" error and the kernel is crashing. Second kernel code, which is getting executed before kernel crash. ==== FEXPORT(octeon_hotplug_entry) move a0, zero move a0, zero move a2, zero move a3, zero 7: #endif /* CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU */ mfc0 v0, CP0_STATUS /* Force 64-bit addressing enabled */ ori v0, v0, (ST0_UX | ST0_SX | ST0_KX) /* Clear NMI and SR as they are sometimes restored and 0 -> 1 * transitions are not allowed */ li v1, ~(ST0_NMI | ST0_SR) and v0, v1 mtc0 v0, CP0_STATUS # Clear the TLB. mfc0 v0, $16, 1 # Config1 dsrl v0, v0, 25 andi v0, v0, 0x3f mfc0 v1, $16, 3 # Config3 bgez v1, 1f mfc0 v1, $16, 4 # Config4 andi v1, 0x7f dsll v1, 6 or v0, v0, v1 1: # Number of TLBs in v0 dmtc0 zero, $2, 0 # EntryLo0 dmtc0 zero, $3, 0 # EntryLo1 dmtc0 zero, $5, 0 # PageMask tlbwi # Make it a 'normal' sized page daddiu t0, t0, 8192 b 10b 1: mtc0 v0, $0, 0 # Index tlbwi .set noreorder bne v0, zero, 10b addiu v0, v0, -1 .set reorder mtc0 zero, $0, 0 # Index dmtc0 zero, $10, 0 # EntryHi dla v0, continue_in_mapped_space jr v0 continue_in_mapped_space: mfc0 v1, CP0_PRID_REG ... ===== Here is the objdump of continue_in_mapped_space ffffffff0be3f7b4 : ffffffff0be3f7b4: 40037800 mfc0 v1,$15 ffffffff0be3f7b8: 3063ff00 andi v1,v1,0xff00 ffffffff0be3f7bc: 34029500 li v0,0x9500 ffffffff0be3f7c0: 00621823 subu v1,v1,v0 ffffffff0be3f7c4: 240e0002 li t2,2 ffffffff0be3f7c8: 04600002 bltz v1,ffffffff0be3f7d4 ffffffff0be3f7cc: 00000000 nop ffffffff0be3f7d0: 25ce0001 addiu t2,t2,1 ffffffff0be3f7d4: 40225807 dmfc0 v0,$11,7 Kernel unaligned instruction access[#1]: issue is happening at start of continue_in_mapped_space function. GCC used for compilation. ./mips64-linux-gnu-gcc --version mips64-linux-gnu-gcc 4.9.4 Copyright (C) 2015 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. Kernel is compiled with option -mabi=64 . Second Kernel crash logs are attached. -- Guruswamy Basavaiah