Re: [PATCH] Chaining sg lists for big IO commands v5

[Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>]

On Fri, May 18 2007, Badari Pulavarty wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-05-18 at 09:33 +0200, Jens Axboe wrote:
> > On Thu, May 17 2007, Badari Pulavarty wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2007-05-17 at 08:27 +0200, Jens Axboe wrote:
> > > .. 
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > Ah ok, you need the updated patch series for ppc64 support. Builds fine
> > > > > > here on ppc64. See the #sglist branch of the block repo:
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > git://git.kernel.dk/data/git/linux-2.6-block.git
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > I can mail you an updated patch, if you want.
> > > > > 
> > > > > 
> > > > > Here is the whole panic stack..
> > > > 
> > > > Thanks will fix that up, the IDE part is totally untested. Can you try
> > > > and backout this patch and see if it boots?
> > > 
> > > Yes. It boots fine with following backed out.
> > > 
> > > Looking at the code ide_probe.c: hwif_init() is doing
> > > 
> > >         hwif->sg_table = kmalloc(sizeof(struct scatterlist)*hwif->sg_max_nents,
> > >                                  GFP_KERNEL);
> > > 
> > > blk_rq_map_sg() is looking for the chaining info and going over end of the
> > > allocation.
> > 
> > Hmm, looks ok, I'm guessing it's just missing a memset (or just turn it
> > into a kzalloc())?
> > 
> 
> Even with backing out all the ide changes, I get this on boot
> once in a while.

Yep, I think the ide changes are fine as such, the problem is the
missing memset/kzalloc. Can you try that?

-- 
Jens Axboe