Re: [PATCH 31/31] memblock: Add memblock_find_in_range()

[Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>]

On 07/28/2010 11:30 AM, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> On 07/28/2010 11:10 AM, James Bottomley wrote:
>>
>> So I don't understand the problem.  Proper shutdown of the old kernel
>> will halt all the DMA engines (by design ... we can't have DMA ongoing
>> if the next action might be power off).  The only case I know where DMA
>> engines may be active is the crash kernel case.
>>
> 
> I'm not sure I fully understand the exact problem, either; not being
> familiar with this putative "logging" facility of the Qlogic devices.
> My point was largely that if a device causes failures because of the
> choice of the allocation order, then we have a much bigger problem and
> papering over it by trying to muck with the allocation order is just wrong.
> 
> This logging facility of Qlogic is DMA, no more, no less.  It needs to
> be shut down on a "overwrite" kexec, where we replace one kernel with
> another, as opposed to a crash dump kexec, where we use a reserved chunk
> of virgin memory.  What I don't know/understand at the moment is if
> there is something "special" about this particular logging facility,
> e.g. if the Qlogic card ignore the bus mastering control bit -- which
> would be reckless but I can see someone having the bright idea to do that.
> 
> Yinghai, do you have any more detail, or know who would?  Also copying
> the Qlogic Infinipath maintainer email...

when I was debug memblock with x86, found the strange crash when high/low.

then use kexec with "memtest" in command line, and the early memtest does find

some bad memory. 

then I add more print about EPT physical address for first kernel,

it does show that range is used by qla driver in first kernel.

I built all needed drivers in kernel so can pxeboot the kernel on all test platforms easily.

Thanks

Yinghai


---
 drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_init.c |   12 ++++++------
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

Index: linux-2.6/drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_init.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_init.c
+++ linux-2.6/drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_init.c
@@ -1327,8 +1327,8 @@ qla2x00_alloc_fw_dump(scsi_qla_host_t *v
 			goto try_eft;
 		}
 
-		qla_printk(KERN_INFO, ha, "Allocated (%d KB) for FCE...\n",
-		    FCE_SIZE / 1024);
+		qla_printk(KERN_INFO, ha, "Allocated (%d KB) at %p for FCE...\n",
+		    FCE_SIZE / 1024, tc);
 
 		fce_size = sizeof(struct qla2xxx_fce_chain) + FCE_SIZE;
 		ha->flags.fce_enabled = 1;
@@ -1354,8 +1354,8 @@ try_eft:
 			goto cont_alloc;
 		}
 
-		qla_printk(KERN_INFO, ha, "Allocated (%d KB) for EFT...\n",
-		    EFT_SIZE / 1024);
+		qla_printk(KERN_INFO, ha, "Allocated (%d KB) at %p for EFT...\n",
+		    EFT_SIZE / 1024, tc);
 
 		eft_size = EFT_SIZE;
 		ha->eft_dma = tc_dma;
@@ -1383,8 +1383,8 @@ cont_alloc:
 		}
 		return;
 	}
-	qla_printk(KERN_INFO, ha, "Allocated (%d KB) for firmware dump...\n",
-	    dump_size / 1024);
+	qla_printk(KERN_INFO, ha, "Allocated (%d KB) at %p for firmware dump...\n",
+	    dump_size / 1024, ha->fw_dump);
 
 	ha->fw_dump_len = dump_size;
 	ha->fw_dump->signature[0] = 'Q';