Re: 2.6.24-rc8-mm1

Andrew Morton
2008-01-17T19:40:32Z

On Thu, 17 Jan 2008 11:22:19 -0800 "Pallipadi, Venkatesh" <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> wrote:

>
> The problem is
> >> modprobe:2584 conflicting cache attribute 50000000-50001000
> >> uncached<->default
>
> Some address range here is being mapped with conflicting types.
> Somewhere the range was mapped with default (write-back). Later
> pci_iomap() is mapping that region as uncacheable which is basically
> aliasing. PAT code detects the aliasing and fails the second uncacheable
> request which leads in the failure.

It sounds to me like you need considerably more runtime debugging and
reporting support in that code. Ensure that it generates enough output
both during regular operation and during failures for you to be able to
diagnose things in a single iteration.

We can always take it out later.

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