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From: Marco Gatti <marco@pianoinflames.de>
To: Mark Lord <liml@rtr.ca>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Robert Hancock <hancockr@shaw.ca>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	IDE/ATA development list <linux-ide@vger.kernel.org>,
	Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>,
	Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: Bug: get EXT3-fs error Allocating block in system zone
Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2007 18:47:11 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <475D7B9F.2090407@pianoinflames.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <475D6B78.8000200@rtr.ca>

Mark Lord schrieb:
>>
>> AHCI is a pretty well tested driver, but 99%+ of all testers still 
>> tend to have less than 4GB of memory. So I do *not* believe that the 
>> highmem bits are all that well tested at all.
>> Can somebody who knows the driver send Marco a test-patch to just 
>> limit DMA to the low 32 bits, and then Marco can at least verify that 
>> yes, that that it. While it looks like DMA problems, there could 
>> obviously be some other subtle issue with big-memory machines (ie the 
>> PCI allocations etc tend to change too!)
> ..
> 
> We have another outstanding bug report of a Marvell chipset being
> used in a funky 32-bit PPC situation with memory above the 4GB mark.
> 
> Possibly related, possibly not.
> 
> The Marvell SATA driver is still VERY EXPERIMENTAL right now,
> missing some errata and stuff.  This should improve over the next few 
> months.
> 

Hello,

I don't have a Marvell chipset. I didn't compiled in this. I have a 
"Intel Corporation PT IDER Controller" and an intel matrix storage 
controller. So I think it doesn't concern my case...

Greets

  reply	other threads:[~2007-12-10 17:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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     [not found]           ` <475C2C02.70001@shaw.ca>
2007-12-09 18:59             ` Bug: get EXT3-fs error Allocating block in system zone Linus Torvalds
2007-12-09 19:09               ` Jens Axboe
2007-12-09 19:58                 ` Marco Gatti
2007-12-09 20:04                   ` Jens Axboe
     [not found]                     ` <475C536B.5070409@pianoinflames.de>
2007-12-09 21:01                       ` Jens Axboe
2007-12-10 18:01                         ` Marco Gatti
2007-12-10 18:08                           ` Jens Axboe
2007-12-10 18:11                           ` Linus Torvalds
2007-12-10 23:59                             ` Robert Hancock
2008-01-31 18:46                               ` Marco Gatti
2007-12-18  8:36                             ` Marco Gatti
2007-12-10 16:38               ` Mark Lord
2007-12-10 17:47                 ` Marco Gatti [this message]
2007-12-19 21:25               ` Marco Gatti
2007-12-19 21:27                 ` Alan Cox
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     [not found] ` <20071206162500.1f76a234.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
     [not found]   ` <alpine.LFD.0.9999.0712061631510.13796@woody.linux-foundation.org>
     [not found]     ` <475B0AD7.10500@pianoinflames.de>
     [not found]       ` <alpine.LFD.0.9999.0712081644560.12046@woody.linux-foundation.org>
     [not found]         ` <475C1F06.4080508@pianoinflames.de>
2007-12-09 18:56           ` Linus Torvalds

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