From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Marco Gatti Subject: Re: Bug: get EXT3-fs error Allocating block in system zone Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2007 18:47:11 +0100 Message-ID: <475D7B9F.2090407@pianoinflames.de> References: <475C2C02.70001@shaw.ca> <475D6B78.8000200@rtr.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from echo836.server4you.de ([85.25.140.112]:52322 "EHLO mail.pianoinflames.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753363AbXLJRrY (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Dec 2007 12:47:24 -0500 In-Reply-To: <475D6B78.8000200@rtr.ca> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Mark Lord Cc: Linus Torvalds , Robert Hancock , Andrew Morton , IDE/ATA development list , Greg KH , Thomas Gleixner , Ingo Molnar , Jens Axboe , Jeff Garzik 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