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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Stef Simoens <stef.simoens@scarlet.be>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: BUG in dma-mapping.h:218 // MESH SCSI driver not working
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2009 09:32:38 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1248910358.1509.27.camel@pasglop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A70937B.7040201@scarlet.be>

On Wed, 2009-07-29 at 20:22 +0200, Stef Simoens wrote:
> 2.6.29 works OK
> 2.6.30-rc1 doesn't work (BUG...)
> 2.6.30-rc1 with your patch ... seems to hang when it should be
> mounting the root directory.
> 
> Is it worthwhile doing a git bisect?

It probably is, since it should work with my patch, so something else
changed, maybe in the SCSI stack.

One thing I know is that the MESH HW has "issues" that make it very
sensitive to alignment DMA buffers, it's possible that the SCSI stack no
longer aligns some stuff ?

Cheers,
Ben.

  reply	other threads:[~2009-07-29 23:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-07-23 22:18 BUG in dma-mapping.h:218 // MESH SCSI driver not working Stef Simoens
2009-07-24  8:52 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-07-24 11:55   ` Stef Simoens
2010-03-18 23:21     ` Stef Simoens
2010-03-18 23:35       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-07-29 18:22   ` Stef Simoens
2009-07-29 23:32     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2009-07-29 23:42       ` Stef Simoens
2009-07-30  0:52         ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-08-02  8:52           ` Stef Simoens
2009-08-02 23:13             ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-08-05  1:04               ` FUJITA Tomonori
2009-08-05  1:11                 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt

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