Re: [BUG] 2.6.23-rc3-mm1 Kernel panic - not syncing: DMA: Memory would be corrupted

[mel@skynet.ie (Mel Gorman)]

On (22/08/07 16:27), Luck, Tony didst pronounce:
> > The more ioc's you have, the more space you will use.
> 
> Default SW IOTLB allocation is 64MB ... how much should we see
> used per ioc?
> 
> Kamelesh: You could try increasing the amount of sw iotlb space
> available by booting with a swiotlb\x131072 argument (argument
> value is the number of 2K slabs to allocate ... 131072 would
> give you four times as much space as the default allocation).
> 

I tried that value and just in case swiotlb&2144. An IA-64 machines I
have here fails with the same message anyway. i.e.

[   19.834906] mptbase: Initiating ioc1 bringup
[   20.317152] ioc1: LSI53C1030 C0: Capabilities={Initiator}
[   15.474303] scsi1 : ioc1: LSI53C1030 C0, FwRev\x01032821h, Ports=1, MaxQ"2, IRQr
[   20.669730] GSI 142 (level, low) -> CPU 5 (0x1200) vector 73
[   20.675602] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:41:03.0[A] -> GSI 142 (level, low) -> IRQ 73
[   20.683508] mptbase: Initiating ioc2 bringup
[   21.166796] ioc2: LSI53C1030 C0: Capabilities={Initiator}
[   21.180539] DMA: Out of SW-IOMMU space for 263200 bytes at device ?
[   21.187018] Kernel panic - not syncing: DMA: Memory would be corrupted

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Mel Gorman
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University of Limerick                         IBM Dublin Software Lab