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From: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
To: benh@kernel.crashing.org (Benjamin Herrenschmidt)
Cc: rossb@google.com (Ross Biro),
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, alan@redhat.com
Subject: Re: 2.4.21-pre3 kernel crash
Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 14:45:07 -0500 (EST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200301271945.h0RJj7B26739@devserv.devel.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1043694192.2756.55.camel@zion.wanadoo.fr> from "Benjamin Herrenschmidt" at Jan 27, 2003 08:03:13 PM

> On Mon, 2003-01-27 at 17:53, Ross Biro wrote:
> > This looks like the same problem I ran into with IDE and highmem not 
> > getting along.  Try compiling your kernel with out highmem enabled and 
> > see what happenes.
> 
> Indeed, looking at the code, it seems ide_build_sglist() doesn't worry
> much about highmem, just picks bh->b_data, assume it's a virtual
> address, and gives that to pci_map_sg(). I beleive, at least for highmem
> pages, it should rather pick bh->b_page and bh_offset(bh)
> 
> I can hack something, maybe tonight, but I can't test HIGHMEM for a while
> here. Interestingly, I had no problem report on PPC from users using IDE
> with highmem though.

I don't see how 2.4 IDE would be getting highmem pages. 2.5 IDE does handle
this and does need to


  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-01-27 19:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-01-27 15:41 2.4.21-pre3 kernel crash Martin MOKREJŠ
2003-01-27 16:53 ` Ross Biro
2003-01-27 17:13   ` Martin MOKREJŠ
2003-01-27 19:23     ` Jens Axboe
2003-01-27 20:27       ` Edward Tandi
2003-01-27 20:36         ` Jeff Garzik
2003-01-27 20:47           ` Edward Tandi
2003-01-27 20:57             ` Jeff Garzik
2003-01-28  9:08               ` Alan Cox
2003-01-28 10:50         ` Martin MOKREJŠ
2003-01-27 23:18       ` J.A. Magallon
2003-01-27 23:24         ` Jens Axboe
2003-01-28  0:02           ` J.A. Magallon
2003-01-27 19:03   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2003-01-27 19:21     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2003-01-27 19:25     ` Jens Axboe
2003-01-27 19:45     ` Alan Cox [this message]
2003-01-27 19:49       ` Jens Axboe
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-01-28 16:41 Larry Sendlosky
2003-01-28 22:06 ` Jens Axboe
2003-01-29  8:23   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2003-01-29  8:53     ` Jens Axboe
2003-01-29  9:44       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2003-01-29 10:16         ` Jens Axboe
2003-01-29  8:23 Benjamin Herrenschmidt

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