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From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Srihari Vijayaraghavan <sriharivijayaraghavan@yahoo.com.au>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>,
	linux-ide@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.24-rc & SB600 AHCI no go on >=4GB of RAM
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 17:46:26 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200711141746.26793.ak@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.0.9999.0711141633400.3265@localhost.localdomain>

 
> The AHCI code falls back to 32bit DMA in that case. Which in turn
> causes the problem seen by Srihari. There is not much printk sticking
> necessary, the code is simply not handling this. 

What code is not handling what? 

IOMMU merging should be always safe. If it is not the driver should
not submit things in a single SG list.

> So the main option 
> right now seems to revert the iommu_merge patch.

I don't think that is the correct fix.

-Andi
 

  reply	other threads:[~2007-11-14 16:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-11-14 11:55 2.6.24-rc & SB600 AHCI no go on >=4GB of RAM Srihari Vijayaraghavan
2007-11-14 12:17 ` Andi Kleen
2007-11-14 16:43   ` Thomas Gleixner
2007-11-14 16:46     ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2007-11-19 22:47       ` Srihari Vijayaraghavan
2007-11-20  1:03       ` Tejun Heo
2007-11-20 15:34         ` Thomas Gleixner
2007-11-20 15:44           ` Andi Kleen
2007-11-20 18:29             ` Thomas Gleixner
2007-11-20 18:43               ` Andi Kleen
2007-11-20 16:36           ` 2.6.24-rc & SB600 AHCI no go on >=4GB of RAM II Andi Kleen
2007-11-20 19:07             ` Jens Axboe
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-11-08 22:41 2.6.24-rc & SB600 AHCI no go on >=4GB of RAM Srihari Vijayaraghavan
2007-11-09  4:00 ` Tejun Heo
2007-11-12 10:56   ` Srihari Vijayaraghavan
2007-11-13  0:06   ` Srihari Vijayaraghavan
2007-11-13  3:08     ` Tejun Heo
2007-11-13 11:17       ` Srihari Vijayaraghavan

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