Re: Problem booting Adaptec Ultra 320 driver with discontigmem support.

[Xavier Bru <xavier.bru@bull.net>]

Sorry, this was the old one, this one should be better (use blk_max_pfn 
instead of blk_max_low_pfn):

--- linux-2.6.0-test11/drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic79xx_osm.c    2003-11-24 
02:32:03.000000000 +0100
+++ linux-2.6.0-test11.new/drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic79xx_osm.c    
2003-12-03 14:39:51.000000000 +0100
@@ -62,6 +62,7 @@
 
 #include <linux/mm.h>        /* For fetching system memory size */
 
+extern unsigned long blk_max_pfn;
 /*
  * Lock protecting manipulation of the ahd softc list.
  */
@@ -2158,10 +2159,9 @@
 uint64_t
 ahd_linux_get_memsize(void)
 {
-    struct sysinfo si;
-
-    si_meminfo(&si);
-    return ((uint64_t)si.totalram << PAGE_SHIFT);
+    /* Need to take in account the max physical address in case
+     * of discontiguous memory. */
+    return ((uint64_t)blk_max_pfn << PAGE_SHIFT);
 }
 
 /*


Xavier Bru a écrit :

> Hello, all
>
> Running  2.6.0-test11 with Adaptec Ultra 320 driver that provides full 
> 64-bit support
> we hit a BUG in blk_queue_bounce_limit() due to physical address 
> greater than allowed by the dma mask.
> Having a look into the code, it appears that the computation to allow 
> full 64-bit support takes in account the size of the installed memory 
> instead of the max physical address of the platform.
> For example on  a platform with 32GB of memory distributed in 1 TB 
> physical address space, only 39-bits physical addresses are supported 
> instead of the 40 bits needed.
>
> IOSAPIC: vector 54 -> CPU 0x04e0, enabled
> scsi0 : Adaptec AIC79XX PCI-X SCSI HBA DRIVER, Rev 1.3.9
>        <Adaptec 39320D Ultra320 SCSI adapter>
>        aic7902: Ultra320 Wide Channel A, SCSI Id=7, PCI-X 101-133Mhz, 
> 512 SCBs
>
> kernel BUG at drivers/block/ll_rw_blk.c:271!
> swapper[1]: bugcheck! 0 [1]
>
> Herafter a patch that fixes the problem:
>
> --- linux-2.6.0-test11/drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic79xx_osm.c    
> 2003-11-24 02:32:03.000000000 +0100
> +++ linux-2.6.0-test11.new/drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic79xx_osm.c    
> 2003-12-03 14:39:51.000000000 +0100
> @@ -62,6 +62,7 @@
>
> #include <linux/mm.h>        /* For fetching system memory size */
>
> +extern unsigned long blk_max_pfn;
> /*
>  * Lock protecting manipulation of the ahd softc list.
>  */
> @@ -2158,10 +2159,9 @@
> uint64_t
> ahd_linux_get_memsize(void)
> {
> -    struct sysinfo si;
> -
> -    si_meminfo(&si);
> -    return ((uint64_t)si.totalram << PAGE_SHIFT);
> +    /* Need to take in account the max physical address in case
> +     * of discontiguous memory. */
> +    return ((uint64_t)blk_max_low_pfn << PAGE_SHIFT);
> }
>
> /*
>


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