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From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com>
To: "Dr. Ernst Molitor" <molitor@uni-bonn.de>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	SCSI Mailing List <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Fw: PROBLEM: Linux V. 2.6.3 panics with "Buffers at physical address >16Mb used for aha1542" at boot time
Date: 20 Feb 2004 08:49:24 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1077295765.1937.0.camel@mulgrave> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1077265837.1297.9.camel@felicia>

On Fri, 2004-02-20 at 00:30, Dr. Ernst Molitor wrote:
> Please don't hesitate to contact me if I can be of any further help in
> this matter.

The problem seems to be a non-GFP_DMA allocation in sr.c.  Could you try
this patch?

Thanks,

James

===== drivers/scsi/sr.c 1.98 vs edited =====
--- 1.98/drivers/scsi/sr.c	Mon Feb  9 12:59:10 2004
+++ edited/drivers/scsi/sr.c	Fri Feb 20 08:47:55 2004
@@ -716,7 +716,7 @@
 	set_disk_ro(cd->disk, 1);
 
 	/* allocate a request for the TEST_UNIT_READY */
-	SRpnt = scsi_allocate_request(cd->device, GFP_KERNEL);
+	SRpnt = scsi_allocate_request(cd->device, GFP_KERNEL | GFP_DMA);
 	if (!SRpnt) {
 		printk(KERN_WARNING "(get_capabilities:) Request allocation "
 		       "failure.\n");


  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-02-20 16:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-02-19  1:12 Fw: PROBLEM: Linux V. 2.6.3 panics with "Buffers at physical address >16Mb used for aha1542" at boot time Andrew Morton
2004-02-20  2:18 ` James Bottomley
2004-02-20  8:30   ` Dr. Ernst Molitor
2004-02-20  8:38     ` Jens Axboe
2004-02-20 18:10       ` James Bottomley
2004-02-20 18:49         ` Jens Axboe
2004-02-20 19:37         ` Jens Axboe
2004-02-23 16:48         ` Jens Axboe
2004-02-23 17:34           ` James Bottomley
2004-02-23 19:04             ` Jens Axboe
2004-02-20 16:49     ` James Bottomley [this message]
2004-02-20 17:52       ` Mike Anderson
2004-02-20 18:06         ` James Bottomley
2004-02-20 20:17       ` Dr. Ernst Molitor

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