2.6.25 DMA: Out of SW-IOMMU space - Asus M2N32 AMD 8GB memory

2.6.25 DMA: Out of SW-IOMMU space - Asus M2N32 AMD 8GB memory

[Jari Aalto]

Message from /etc/syslog:

        [1] Aug 21 11:01:19 jondo kernel: [174628.275859] DMA: Out of SW-IOMMU space for 65536 bytes at device 0000:00:0d.0

My AMD freezes with Kernel 2.6.25 has experienced regular freezing so
that only power button can take the system down. This is alarming,
because the system can stay up only a few days.

I've spent countless of hours reading related "Out of SW-IOMMU space"
(Google) documents. For some people they have worked, for some they
haven't and there has not been any clear explanation what options
whould/should be used in what chipsets/MBs and why.

I've gone through various combinations of kernel boot options, but
nothing seems to completely solve the problem:

iommu=soft swiotlb=65536

        Freezing continued, but the disk corruption did not happen any more.
        Increasing the swiotlb value has not had helped.

iommu=soft,memaper=3 swiotlb=65536

        Adding memaper did not help. "Out of SW-IOMMU space" messages [see
        1] creept in and I'm preparing to see another freeze eventally.

iommu=noaperture

        Same as above. Not progress.

iommu=noagp,noaperture swiotlb=512M

        Current options that I use. They were giving hope for 2 days,
        but then a single "Out of SW-IOMMU space" message appeared. I'm
        afraid the freeze is about to come.

Should I try following options next? or just "iommu=off"?

        iommu=noagp,noaperture,off swiotlb=512M
                               ===

I don't understand enough what are the effects related to the MCP55 SATA
Controller which seems to be the target [See 1; based on device id
"00:0d.0"] of these IOMMU messages. Only the plain SATA connectors, not
the onboard RAID SATA connectors, are in use for the harddisk.

To best of my knowledge going through this motherboard:

- Asus award bios does not have setting related to IOMMU. I'm using the
  latest bios 2001 from www.asus.com
- has no aperture setting in bios.
- has no AGP, only PCI and CPIe slots.

My arsenal of knowledge is exhausting, so please, if you have any
insight what could be examined further or what could be done to solve
the IOMMU problem, let me know.

Jari

Some of the links and threads I've read
---------------------------------------

        "Appendix L. Known Issues" > The X86-64 platform (AMD64/EM64T) and 2.6 kernels
        ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/1.0-8174/README/32bit_html/appendix-l.html

        "What is AGP Aperture size?"
        http://www.techpowerup.com/articles/overclocking/vidcard/43

        "PCI-DMA: high address but no IOMMU"
        http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/342411

        "Out of IOMMU space"
        http://www.x86-64.org/pipermail/discuss/2005-September/006490.html

        "Your BIOS doesn't leave a aperture memory hole"
        http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-hardware-18/your-bios-doesnt-leave-a-aperture-memory-hole-624088/

Hardware details
----------------
 OS
        $ cat /etc/debian_version
        lenny/sid               (pinning: that's 90% testing + 10% unstable packages)

 Kernel
        $ uname -a
        2.6.25-2-amd64 #1 SMP Mon Jul 14 11:05:23 UTC 2008 x86_64 GNU/Linux

 CPU
        $ cat /proc/cpuinfo
        model name      : AMD Athlon(tm) X2 Dual Core Processor BE-2400
        stepping        : 2
        cpu MHz         : 2310.518
        cache size      : 512 KB
        ...

        $ cat /proc/meminfo
        MemTotal:      8266632 kB
        MemFree:        110212 kB
        Buffers:        237132 kB
        Cached:        3803660 kB
        SwapCached:          0 kB
        ...

 HD
        $ hdparm -I /dev/sda

        ATA device, with non-removable media
                Model Number:       ST31000340AS
                Serial Number:      5QJ01MS4
                Firmware Revision:  SD01

        http://www.seagate.com/ww/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=0732f141e7f43110VgnVCM100000f5ee0a0aRCRD

 MB

        Asus M2N32-SLI Deluxe/Wireless Edition
        - nvidia nForce 590 SLI chipset MCP
        - 2 x PCIe (SLI x16), 1 x PCI (x4), 1 x PCI (x1), 2 x PCI 2.2
        - Socket AM2

        http://www.asus.com/products.aspx?l1=3&l2=101&l3=300&model=1163&modelmenu=1

        $ lspci -nn
        00:0d.0 IDE interface [0101]: nVidia Corporation MCP55 SATA Controller [10de:037f] (rev a2)
        01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: nVidia Corporation G70 [GeForce 7600 GS] [10de:0392] (rev a1)
        02:0b.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394) [0c00]: Texas Instruments TSB43AB22/A IEEE-1394a-2000 Controller (PHY/Link) [104c:8023]
        03:00.0 Mass storage controller [0180]: Silicon Image, Inc. SiI 3132 Serial ATA Raid II Controller [1095:3132] (rev 01)
        ...

lspci -vv
----------------------------

00:16.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP55 PCI Express bridge (rev a2)
	Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx+
	Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
	Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 32 bytes
	Bus: primary=00, secondary=03, subordinate=03, sec-latency=0
	I/O behind bridge: 00009000-00009fff
	Memory behind bridge: fde00000-fdefffff
	Secondary status: 66MHz- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- <SERR- <PERR-
	BridgeCtl: Parity- SERR- NoISA+ VGA- MAbort- >Reset- FastB2B-
		PriDiscTmr- SecDiscTmr- DiscTmrStat- DiscTmrSERREn-
	Capabilities: [40] Subsystem: nVidia Corporation Device 0000
	Capabilities: [48] Power Management version 2
		Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0+,D1+,D2+,D3hot+,D3cold+)
		Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
	Capabilities: [50] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit+ Queue=0/1 Enable+
		Address: 00000000fee0300c  Data: 4151
	Capabilities: [60] HyperTransport: MSI Mapping Enable+ Fixed-
		Mapping Address Base: 00000000fee00000
	Capabilities: [80] Express (v1) Root Port (Slot+), MSI 00
		DevCap:	MaxPayload 256 bytes, PhantFunc 0, Latency L0s <512ns, L1 <4us
			ExtTag- RBE+ FLReset-
		DevCtl:	Report errors: Correctable+ Non-Fatal+ Fatal+ Unsupported+
			RlxdOrd+ ExtTag- PhantFunc- AuxPwr- NoSnoop+
			MaxPayload 128 bytes, MaxReadReq 512 bytes
		DevSta:	CorrErr- UncorrErr- FatalErr- UnsuppReq- AuxPwr- TransPend-
		LnkCap:	Port #1, Speed 2.5GT/s, Width x1, ASPM L0s L1, Latency L0 <512ns, L1 <4us
			ClockPM- Suprise- LLActRep+ BwNot-
		LnkCtl:	ASPM Disabled; RCB 64 bytes Disabled- Retrain- CommClk+
			ExtSynch- ClockPM- AutWidDis- BWInt- AutBWInt-
		LnkSta:	Speed 2.5GT/s, Width x1, TrErr- Train- SlotClk+ DLActive+ BWMgmt- ABWMgmt-
		SltCap:	AttnBtn- PwrCtrl- MRL- AttnInd- PwrInd- HotPlug- Surpise-
			Slot #  0, PowerLimit 0.000000; Interlock- NoCompl-
		SltCtl:	Enable: AttnBtn- PwrFlt- MRL- PresDet- CmdCplt- HPIrq- LinkChg-
			Control: AttnInd Off, PwrInd On, Power- Interlock-
		SltSta:	Status: AttnBtn- PowerFlt- MRL- CmdCplt- PresDet+ Interlock-
			Changed: MRL- PresDet+ LinkState+
		RootCtl: ErrCorrectable- ErrNon-Fatal- ErrFatal- PMEIntEna- CRSVisible-
		RootCap: CRSVisible-
		RootSta: PME ReqID 0000, PMEStatus- PMEPending-
	Capabilities: [100] Virtual Channel <?>
	Kernel driver in use: pcieport-driver
	Kernel modules: shpchp


[1] Full message from syslog
-----------------------------

Aug 21 11:01:19 jondo kernel: [174628.275859] DMA: Out of SW-IOMMU space for 65536 bytes at device 0000:00:0d.0
Aug 21 11:01:19 jondo kernel: [174628.279020] ata3.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x0
Aug 21 11:01:19 jondo kernel: [174628.279020] ata3.00: cmd 35/00:00:9f:b9:fd/00:04:71:00:00/e0 tag 0 dma 524288 out
Aug 21 11:01:19 jondo kernel: [174628.279020]          res 50/00:00:96:b9:fd/00:00:71:00:00/e0 Emask 0x40 (internal error)
Aug 21 11:01:19 jondo kernel: [174628.279020] ata3.00: status: { DRDY }
Aug 21 11:01:19 jondo kernel: [174628.322932] ata3.00: configured for UDMA/133
Aug 21 11:01:19 jondo kernel: [174628.322932] ata3: EH complete
Aug 21 11:01:19 jondo kernel: [174628.330761] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] 1953525168 512-byte hardware sectors (1000205 MB)
Aug 21 11:01:19 jondo kernel: [174628.340876] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
Aug 21 11:01:19 jondo kernel: [174628.340876] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
Aug 21 11:01:19 jondo kernel: [174628.351250] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA

dmesg
-------------------------------

[    0.914265] Linux agpgart interface v0.103
...
[    3.687719] ata1: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 0)
[    5.770299] ata2: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 0)
[    5.582800] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APC3] enabled at IRQ 18
[    5.582811] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:08.1[A] -> Link [APC3] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 18
[    5.584163] NFORCE-MCP55: 0000:00:0c.0 (rev a1) UDMA133 controller
[    5.584167] NFORCE-MCP55: IDE controller (0x10de:0x036e rev 0xa1) at  PCI slot 0000:00:0c.0
[    5.584187] NFORCE-MCP55: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
[    5.584194] NFORCE-MCP55: IDE port disabled
[    5.584198]     ide0: BM-DMA at 0xf400-0xf407, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA
[    5.584208] Probing IDE interface ide0...
[    5.661667] firewire_ohci: Added fw-ohci device 0000:02:08.1, OHCI version 1.10
[    5.661706] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APC1] enabled at IRQ 16
[    5.661706] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:0b.0[A] -> Link [APC1] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
[    5.732701] firewire_ohci: Added fw-ohci device 0000:02:0b.0, OHCI version 1.10
[    6.345280] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APCL] enabled at IRQ 20
[    6.345280] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:0a.1[B] -> Link [APCL] -> GSI 20 (level, low) -> IRQ 20
[    6.345280] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:0a.1 to 64
[    6.345280] ehci_hcd 0000:00:0a.1: EHCI Host Controller
[    6.345280] ehci_hcd 0000:00:0a.1: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
[    6.345280] ehci_hcd 0000:00:0a.1: debug port 1
[    6.345280] PCI: cache line size of 64 is not supported by device 0000:00:0a.1
[    6.345280] ehci_hcd 0000:00:0a.1: irq 20, io mem 0xfe02e000

Re: 2.6.25 DMA: Out of SW-IOMMU space - Asus M2N32 AMD 8GB memory

[Krzysztof Halasa]

Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@cante.net> writes:

>         [1] Aug 21 11:01:19 jondo kernel: [174628.275859] DMA: Out of SW-IOMMU space for 65536 bytes at device 0000:00:0d.0
>         model name      : AMD Athlon(tm) X2 Dual Core Processor
>         BE-2400

grep GART_IOMMU .config
-- 
Krzysztof Halasa

Re: 2.6.25 DMA: Out of SW-IOMMU space - Asus M2N32 AMD 8GB memory

[Alistair John Strachan]

On Saturday 23 August 2008 13:31:03 Krzysztof Halasa wrote:
> Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@cante.net> writes:
> >         [1] Aug 21 11:01:19 jondo kernel: [174628.275859] DMA: Out of
> > SW-IOMMU space for 65536 bytes at device 0000:00:0d.0 model name      :
> > AMD Athlon(tm) X2 Dual Core Processor
> >         BE-2400
>
> grep GART_IOMMU .config

Agreed, you shouldn't be using the SW-IOMMU on this processor.

That said, do you use the r8169 driver with jumbo frames enabled? Francois 
Romieu just fixed a leak in it that affected Intel platforms (because some 
have no hardware IOMMU).

-- 
Cheers,
Alistair.

Re: 2.6.25 DMA: Out of SW-IOMMU space - Asus M2N32 AMD 8GB memory

[Jari Aalto]

Alistair John Strachan <alistair@devzero.co.uk> writes:

> On Saturday 23 August 2008 13:31:03 Krzysztof Halasa wrote:
>
>> Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@cante.net> writes:
>> >         [1] Aug 21 11:01:19 jondo kernel: [174628.275859] DMA: Out of
>> > SW-IOMMU space for 65536 bytes at device 0000:00:0d.0 model name      :
>> > AMD Athlon(tm) X2 Dual Core Processor
>> >         BE-2400
>
> Agreed, you shouldn't be using the SW-IOMMU on this processor.

So the correct boot paramer is?

  imoou=off,noagp,noaperture

no swiotlb setting at all?

> That said, do you use the r8169 driver with jumbo frames enabled? Francois
> Romieu just fixed a leak in it that affected Intel platforms (because some
> have no hardware IOMMU).

I'm using the onboard WiFi:

$ lsmod | grep rtl
rtl8187                39424  0

$ dmesg ...

[    2.758861] usb 1-9: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 4
[    2.978258] usb 1-9: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[    2.985369] usb 1-9: New USB device found, idVendor=0bda, idProduct=8187
[    2.985372] usb 1-9: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
[    2.985374] usb 1-9: Product: RTL8187_Wireless
[    2.985376] usb 1-9: Manufacturer: Manufacturer_Realtek_RTL8187_
[    2.985378] usb 1-9: SerialNumber: 0015AF0B59A6

I'm not sure how it maps to pci -nn:

00:04.0 PCI bridge [0604]: nVidia Corporation C51 PCI Express Bridge [10de:02fb] (rev a1)
00:09.0 ISA bridge [0601]: nVidia Corporation MCP55 LPC Bridge [10de:0360] (rev a2)
00:09.1 SMBus [0c05]: nVidia Corporation MCP55 SMBus [10de:0368] (rev a2)
00:0a.0 USB Controller [0c03]: nVidia Corporation MCP55 USB Controller [10de:036c] (rev a1)
00:0a.1 USB Controller [0c03]: nVidia Corporation MCP55 USB Controller [10de:036d] (rev a2)
00:0e.0 PCI bridge [0604]: nVidia Corporation MCP55 PCI bridge [10de:0370] (rev a2)
00:10.0 Bridge [0680]: nVidia Corporation MCP55 Ethernet [10de:0373] (rev a2)
00:11.0 Bridge [0680]: nVidia Corporation MCP55 Ethernet [10de:0373] (rev a2)
00:16.0 PCI bridge [0604]: nVidia Corporation MCP55 PCI Express bridge [10de:0375] (rev a2)

Thank you,
Jari

Re: 2.6.25 DMA: Out of SW-IOMMU space - Asus M2N32 AMD 8GB memory

[Jari Aalto]

Krzysztof Halasa <khc@pm.waw.pl> writes:

> Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@cante.net> writes:
>
>>         [1] Aug 21 11:01:19 jondo kernel: [174628.275859] DMA: Out of SW-IOMMU space for 65536 bytes at device 0000:00:0d.0
>>         model name      : AMD Athlon(tm) X2 Dual Core Processor
>>         BE-2400
>
> grep GART_IOMMU .config

>From Debian stock kernel:

$ grep -Ei 'iommu|agp' /boot/config-2.6.25-2-amd64
CONFIG_GART_IOMMU=y
CONFIG_CALGARY_IOMMU=y
CONFIG_CALGARY_IOMMU_ENABLED_BY_DEFAULT=y
CONFIG_IOMMU_HELPER=y
CONFIG_AGP=y
CONFIG_AGP_AMD64=y
CONFIG_AGP_INTEL=m
CONFIG_AGP_SIS=m
CONFIG_AGP_VIA=m

Jari

Re: 2.6.25 DMA: Out of SW-IOMMU space - Asus M2N32 AMD 8GB memory

[Jari Aalto]

Alistair John Strachan <alistair@devzero.co.uk> writes:

> On Saturday 23 August 2008 13:31:03 Krzysztof Halasa wrote:
>
>> Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@cante.net> writes:
>> >         [1] Aug 21 11:01:19 jondo kernel: [174628.275859] DMA: Out of
>> > SW-IOMMU space for 65536 bytes at device 0000:00:0d.0 model name      :
>> > AMD Athlon(tm) X2 Dual Core Processor
>> >         BE-2400
>>
>> grep GART_IOMMU .config
>
> Agreed, you shouldn't be using the SW-IOMMU on this processor.

Are these the correct boot options, without swiotlb?

   iommu=noagp,noaperture,off

Or just:

   iommu=off

> That said, do you use the r8169 driver with jumbo frames enabled? Francois
> Romieu just fixed a leak in it that affected Intel platforms (because some
> have no hardware IOMMU).

The onboard WiFi is in use:

        $ lsmod | grep rtl
	rtl8187   39424  0

        $ dmesg

	[    2.758861] usb 1-9: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 4
	[    2.978258] usb 1-9: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
	[    2.985369] usb 1-9: New USB device found, idVendor=0bda, idProduct=8187
	[    2.985372] usb 1-9: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
	[    2.985374] usb 1-9: Product: RTL8187_Wireless
	[    2.985376] usb 1-9: Manufacturer: Manufacturer_Realtek_RTL8187_
	[    2.985378] usb 1-9: SerialNumber: 0015AF0B59A6

Jari

Re: 2.6.25 DMA: Out of SW-IOMMU space - Asus M2N32 AMD 8GB memory

[Krzysztof Halasa]

Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@cante.net> writes:

>>From Debian stock kernel:
>
> $ grep -Ei 'iommu|agp' /boot/config-2.6.25-2-amd64
> CONFIG_GART_IOMMU=y
> CONFIG_CALGARY_IOMMU=y
> CONFIG_CALGARY_IOMMU_ENABLED_BY_DEFAULT=y
> CONFIG_IOMMU_HELPER=y
> CONFIG_AGP=y
> CONFIG_AGP_AMD64=y
> CONFIG_AGP_INTEL=m
> CONFIG_AGP_SIS=m
> CONFIG_AGP_VIA=m

Should be fine. SWIOTLB is there for a backup, most (?) Intel machines
don't have IOMMU (even the newest desktop boards).

> Are these the correct boot options, without swiotlb?
>
>    iommu=noagp,noaperture,off
>
> Or just:
>
>    iommu=off

Do you have problems without "iommu=XXX"?
-- 
Krzysztof Halasa

Re: 2.6.25 DMA: Out of SW-IOMMU space - Asus M2N32 AMD 8GB memory

[Jari Aalto]

Krzysztof Halasa <khc@pm.waw.pl> writes:

> Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@cante.net> writes:
>
>>>From Debian stock kernel:
>>
>> $ grep -Ei 'iommu|agp' /boot/config-2.6.25-2-amd64
>> CONFIG_GART_IOMMU=y
>> CONFIG_CALGARY_IOMMU=y
>> CONFIG_CALGARY_IOMMU_ENABLED_BY_DEFAULT=y
>> CONFIG_IOMMU_HELPER=y
>> CONFIG_AGP=y
>> CONFIG_AGP_AMD64=y
>> CONFIG_AGP_INTEL=m
>> CONFIG_AGP_SIS=m
>> CONFIG_AGP_VIA=m
>
> Should be fine. SWIOTLB is there for a backup, most (?) Intel machines
> don't have IOMMU (even the newest desktop boards).
>
>> Are these the correct boot options, without swiotlb?
>>
>>    iommu=noagp,noaperture,off
>>
>> Or just:
>>
>>    iommu=off
>
> Do you have problems without "iommu=XXX"?

Initially when the PC was installed (and had no IOMMU) options, that
cause the whole harddisk to corrupt and I had to reinstall everything.
It might have been a little older kernel (2.6.23?), but I don't recall
it exactly.

According to messages in syslog I tried to track down similar incidents
and found the iommu articles. But the information was like trial and
error.

Would you suggest that "immu=off" would be best option?

Thanks,
Jari

Re: 2.6.25 DMA: Out of SW-IOMMU space - Asus M2N32 AMD 8GB memory

[Robert Hancock]

Jari Aalto wrote:
> Krzysztof Halasa <khc@pm.waw.pl> writes:
> 
>> Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@cante.net> writes:
>>
>>> >From Debian stock kernel:
>>>
>>> $ grep -Ei 'iommu|agp' /boot/config-2.6.25-2-amd64
>>> CONFIG_GART_IOMMU=y
>>> CONFIG_CALGARY_IOMMU=y
>>> CONFIG_CALGARY_IOMMU_ENABLED_BY_DEFAULT=y
>>> CONFIG_IOMMU_HELPER=y
>>> CONFIG_AGP=y
>>> CONFIG_AGP_AMD64=y
>>> CONFIG_AGP_INTEL=m
>>> CONFIG_AGP_SIS=m
>>> CONFIG_AGP_VIA=m
>> Should be fine. SWIOTLB is there for a backup, most (?) Intel machines
>> don't have IOMMU (even the newest desktop boards).
>>
>>> Are these the correct boot options, without swiotlb?
>>>
>>>    iommu=noagp,noaperture,off
>>>
>>> Or just:
>>>
>>>    iommu=off
>> Do you have problems without "iommu=XXX"?
> 
> Initially when the PC was installed (and had no IOMMU) options, that
> cause the whole harddisk to corrupt and I had to reinstall everything.
> It might have been a little older kernel (2.6.23?), but I don't recall
> it exactly.
> 
> According to messages in syslog I tried to track down similar incidents
> and found the iommu articles. But the information was like trial and
> error.
> 
> Would you suggest that "immu=off" would be best option?

No, you can't use iommu=off. If you have memory located over 4GB and 
devices which can only do 32-bit DMA then you need some kind of IOMMU 
support, otherwise things will just blow up.

If you use no options and it's enabled in the kernel config it should be 
using the GART IOMMU built into the CPU on this machine..

Re: 2.6.25 DMA: Out of SW-IOMMU space - Asus M2N32 AMD 8GB memory

[Jari Aalto]

Robert Hancock <hancockr@shaw.ca> writes:

> Jari Aalto wrote:
>>>> $ grep -Ei 'iommu|agp' /boot/config-2.6.25-2-amd64
>>>> CONFIG_GART_IOMMU=y
>>>> CONFIG_CALGARY_IOMMU=y
>>>> CONFIG_CALGARY_IOMMU_ENABLED_BY_DEFAULT=y
>>>> CONFIG_IOMMU_HELPER=y
>>>> CONFIG_AGP=y
>>>> CONFIG_AGP_AMD64=y
>>>> CONFIG_AGP_INTEL=m
>>>> CONFIG_AGP_SIS=m
>>>> CONFIG_AGP_VIA=m
>>> Do you have problems without "iommu=XXX"?
>>
>> ...whole harddisk to corrupt and I had to reinstall everything.
>> It might have been a little older kernel (2.6.23?), but I don't recall
>> it exactly.
>>
>> Would you suggest that "immu=off" would be best option?
>
> No, you can't use iommu=off. If you have memory located over 4GB and
> devices which can only do 32-bit DMA then you need some kind of IOMMU
> support, otherwise things will just blow up.
>
> If you use no options and it's enabled in the kernel config it should be
> using the GART IOMMU built into the CPU on this machine..

So, with newest kernel I should just leave 'iommu' out from boot
options. I could try to upgrade even to 2.6.26, which Debian has in
unstable repository.

What, if after booting to 2.6.26 and without any 'iommu' boot parameters,
there still appears "Out of Iommu space" messages? What kind of logs
should I post?

I'm a bit nervous due to past experience of complete hardd disk
corruption. But if that was problem with the old kernel and more later
versions are safer in this repect, I could once more.

Jari

Re: 2.6.25 DMA: Out of SW-IOMMU space - Asus M2N32 AMD 8GB memory

[Krzysztof Halasa]

Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@cante.net> writes:

> What, if after booting to 2.6.26 and without any 'iommu' boot parameters,
> there still appears "Out of Iommu space" messages? What kind of logs
> should I post?

You shouldn't be getting "Out of SW-IOMMU space" messages when not
using SW-IOMMU.

> I'm a bit nervous due to past experience of complete hardd disk
> corruption. But if that was problem with the old kernel and more later
> versions are safer in this repect, I could once more.

I'm not sure if the newer versions are safer. It may be a hardware/BIOS
problem and it may happen again. Make sure you have a usable backup
first.
-- 
Krzysztof Halasa

Re: 2.6.25 DMA: Out of SW-IOMMU space - Asus M2N32 AMD 8GB memory

[Jari Aalto]

Krzysztof Halasa <khc@pm.waw.pl> writes:

> Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@cante.net> writes:
>
>> What, if after booting to 2.6.26 and without any 'iommu' boot parameters,
>> there still appears "Out of Iommu space" messages? What kind of logs
>> should I post?
>
> You shouldn't be getting "Out of SW-IOMMU space" messages when not
> using SW-IOMMU.

REF: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/725293 (thread start)

I regret to report that:

- Upgraded to kernel 2.6.26-1-amd64 (Debian/unstable 2.6.26-3)

$ grep -Ei 'iommu|agp' /boot/config-2.6.26-1-amd64
CONFIG_GART_IOMMU=y
CONFIG_CALGARY_IOMMU=y
CONFIG_CALGARY_IOMMU_ENABLED_BY_DEFAULT=y
CONFIG_IOMMU_HELPER=y
CONFIG_AGP=y
CONFIG_AGP_AMD64=y
CONFIG_AGP_INTEL=m
CONFIG_AGP_SIS=m
CONFIG_AGP_VIA=m
# CONFIG_IOMMU_DEBUG is not set

- Rebooted without 'iommu' parameter. dmesg:

[    0.000000] Kernel command line: root=UUID=cb9d814f-d885-435b-8e6d-ac17c0ac5aa1 ro quiet vga=0x317 swiotlb=32768
[    0.004000] Checking aperture...
[    0.004000] Node 0: aperture @ 4000000 size 32 MB
[    0.004000] Aperture pointing to e820 RAM. Ignoring.
[    0.004000] No AGP bridge found
[    0.004000] Your BIOS doesn't leave a aperture memory hole
[    0.004000] Please enable the IOMMU option in the BIOS setup
[    0.004000] This costs you 64 MB of RAM
[    0.004000] Mapping aperture over 65536 KB of RAM @ 4000000
...
[    0.374935] PCI-DMA: Disabling AGP.
[    0.374935] PCI-DMA: aperture base @ 4000000 size 65536 KB
[    0.374935] PCI-DMA: using GART IOMMU.
[    0.374935] PCI-DMA: Reserving 64MB of IOMMU area in the AGP aperture


- The syslog after boot reads:

Aug 28 20:18:28 jondo kernel: [972060.192696] DMA: Out of SW-IOMMU space for 24576 bytes at device 0000:00:0d.0
Aug 28 20:18:28 jondo kernel: [972060.192760] ata3.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x0
Aug 28 20:18:28 jondo kernel: [972060.196705] ata3.00: cmd ca/00:60:c1:91:5f/00:00:00:00:00/e8 tag 0 dma 49152 out
Aug 28 20:18:28 jondo kernel: [972060.196707]          res 50/00:00:bf:cf:b5/00:00:71:00:00/ea Emask 0x40 (internal error)
Aug 28 20:18:28 jondo kernel: [972060.200700] ata3.00: status: { DRDY }
Aug 28 20:18:28 jondo kernel: [972060.231128] ata3.00: configured for UDMA/133
Aug 28 20:18:28 jondo kernel: [972060.231137] ata3: EH complete
Aug 28 20:18:28 jondo kernel: [972060.231148] DMA: Out of SW-IOMMU space for 24576 bytes at device 0000:00:0d.0
Aug 28 20:18:28 jondo kernel: [972060.233247] ata3.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x0
Aug 28 20:18:28 jondo kernel: [972060.237246] ata3.00: cmd
ca/00:60:c1:91:5f/00:00:00:00:00/e8 tag 0 dma 49152 out

>> I'm a bit nervous due to past experience of complete hardd disk
>> corruption. But if that was problem with the old kernel and more later
>> versions are safer in this repect, I could once more.
>
> I'm not sure if the newer versions are safer. It may be a hardware/BIOS
> problem and it may happen again. Make sure you have a usable backup
> first.

If there is anything I can do, please let me know. This must be a kernel
issue somewhere.

My BE-2400 processor still continues to freeze after few days.

Jari

Re: 2.6.25 DMA: Out of SW-IOMMU space - Asus M2N32 AMD 8GB memory

[Yinghai Lu]

On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 1:49 PM, Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@cante.net> wrote:
> Krzysztof Halasa <khc@pm.waw.pl> writes:
>
>> Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@cante.net> writes:
>>
>>> What, if after booting to 2.6.26 and without any 'iommu' boot parameters,
>>> there still appears "Out of Iommu space" messages? What kind of logs
>>> should I post?
>>
>> You shouldn't be getting "Out of SW-IOMMU space" messages when not
>> using SW-IOMMU.
>
> REF: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/725293 (thread start)
>
> I regret to report that:
>
> - Upgraded to kernel 2.6.26-1-amd64 (Debian/unstable 2.6.26-3)

can you send out whole boot log? with "debug initcall_debug"

http://people.redhat.com/mingo/tip.git/readme.txt

YH

Re: 2.6.25 DMA: Out of SW-IOMMU space - Asus M2N32 AMD 8GB memory

[Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi]

Hi 

(sorry my english)

When booted kernel with no iommu parameter, it uses the iommu gart (from amd) and the size of the aperture is 64MB
You can try to grow this size with iommu=memaper=2 for 128MB or 3 for 256MB. I don't have experience with this, but 
i read that this, solves the problem.

I have the similar hardware, but when boot in 64 bits, limit the memory with mem=4G (discarded 0.5G that are (remaped from pci space) beyond 4G)
and iommu=noaperture. (This is not option for you, will be discard 4G of RAM)


Asus M2N32-SLI DELUXE (BIOS Phoenix ver 1603 [12/17/2007])
4 x 1GB OCZ DDR2 PC2-6400 Platinum Rev2 ( OCZ2P800R21G )
AMD Athlon 64 X2 5200+ ( ADA5200IAA6CS ) (stepping F2)

I have realiced some test an posted here (sorry in spanish): http://www.pcmasmas.com/viewtopic.php?t=31445


Buena suerte.


Jari Aalto <jari.aalto <at> cante.net> writes:

> Initially when the PC was installed (and had no IOMMU) options, that
> cause the whole harddisk to corrupt and I had to reinstall everything.
> It might have been a little older kernel (2.6.23?), but I don't recall
> it exactly.

> According to messages in syslog I tried to track down similar incidents
> and found the iommu articles. But the information was like trial and
> error.

> Would you suggest that "immu=off" would be best option?


-- 
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http://www.djgera.com.ar
KeyID: 0x1B8C330D
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Re: 2.6.25 DMA: Out of SW-IOMMU space - Asus M2N32 AMD 8GB memory

[Jari Aalto]

Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi <vmlinuz386@yahoo.com.ar> writes:

> When booted kernel with no iommu parameter, it uses the iommu gart
> (from amd) and the size of the aperture is 64MB You can try to grow
> this size with iommu=memaper=2 for 128MB or 3 for 256MB. I don't have
> experience with this, but i read that this, solves the problem.

See my original bug report, which included experiences with
memaper. Unofrtunately they didn't help:

    REF: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/725293 (thread start)

but I'll try that once more with this 2.6.26 kernel to double check.

> I have the similar hardware, but when boot in 64 bits, limit the
> memory with mem=4G (discarded 0.5G that are (remaped from pci space)
> beyond 4G) and iommu=noaperture. (This is not option for you, will be
> discard 4G of RAM)

Interestingly 'noaperture' together with 'noagp' has been the best
option so far. It gives workign system for about week, but eventually
the "out of IOMMU space" messages start appear.

The system has always seen the full 8 GB memory without problems.

> Asus M2N32-SLI DELUXE (BIOS Phoenix ver 1603 [12/17/2007])
> 4 x 1GB OCZ DDR2 PC2-6400 Platinum Rev2 ( OCZ2P800R21G )
> AMD Athlon 64 X2 5200+ ( ADA5200IAA6CS ) (stepping F2)

The only difference to your system is more recent CPU:

$ cat/proc/cpuinfo

processor       : 0
vendor_id       : AuthenticAMD
cpu family      : 15
model           : 107
model name      : AMD Athlon(tm) X2 Dual Core Processor BE-2400
stepping        : 2
cpu MHz         : 2310.516
cache size      : 512 KB
physical id     : 0
siblings        : 2
core id         : 0
cpu cores       : 2
apicid          : 0
initial apicid  : 0
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 1
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt rdtscp lm 3dnowext 3dnow rep_good pni cx16 lahf_lm cmp_legacy svm extapic cr8_legacy 3dnowprefetch
bogomips        : 4625.06
TLB size        : 1024 4K pages
clflush size    : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes   : 40 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management: ts fid vid ttp tm stc
...

> I have realiced some test an posted here (sorry in spanish): http://www.pcmasmas.com/viewtopic.php?t=31445

Could you explain this a bit more. Is the mentioned "tip-latest" the
current kernel development tree? Should I try to compile this kernel and
use it for testing?

Jari

Re: 2.6.25 DMA: Out of SW-IOMMU space - Asus M2N32 AMD 8GB memory

[Jari Aalto]

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"Yinghai Lu" <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com> writes:

> On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 1:49 PM, Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@cante.net> wrote:
>
>> Krzysztof Halasa <khc@pm.waw.pl> writes:
>>
>>> Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@cante.net> writes:
>>>
>>>> What, if after booting to 2.6.26 and without any 'iommu' boot parameters,
>>>> there still appears "Out of Iommu space" messages? What kind of logs
>>>> should I post?
>>>
>>> You shouldn't be getting "Out of SW-IOMMU space" messages when not
>>> using SW-IOMMU.
>>
>> REF: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/725293 (thread start)
>>
>> I regret to report that:
>>
>> - Upgraded to kernel 2.6.26-1-amd64 (Debian/unstable 2.6.26-3)
>
> can you send out whole boot log? with "debug initcall_debug"

See below.

> http://people.redhat.com/mingo/tip.git/readme.txt

Could you explain this document a bit. What git commands should I use to
retrive test kernel to build?

1 The vanilla boot. No IOMMU option, no SWIOTLB
  http://sial.org/pbot/32038

2 with iommu=memaper=3
  http://sial.org/pbot/32040

3 with iommu=memaper=3,noagp
  http://sial.org/pbot/32041

4 with iommu=memaper=3,noagp,soft swiotlb=65535
  http://sial.org/pbot/32042

I'm including the diff between [1] and [2]. The script I used is also
attached.

Jari


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# DESCRIPTION
#
#    Take diffs between dmesg boot logs. After each boot, save log with:
#
#    $ dmesg > dmesg-$(date +"%Y%m%d%h%m").log
#
# USAGE
#
#
#    $ . kernel.bash
#    $ Diff dmesg1.log dmesg2.log

Clean ()
{
    awk -F: '{$1=""; print}' "$1"
}

Diff ()
{
    ${test+echo} diff -bwu --label "$1" --label "$2" <(Clean "$1") <(Clean "$2")
}

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--- dmesg-2.6.26-20080829-vanilla.log
+++ dmesg-2.6.26-20080829-memaper3.log
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 
 
  09 32 UTC 2008
-  root=UUID=cb9d814f-d885-435b-8e6d-ac17c0ac5aa1 ro quiet vga=0x317 debug initcall_debug
+  root=UUID=cb9d814f-d885-435b-8e6d-ac17c0ac5aa1 ro quiet vga=0x317 iommu=memaper=3 debug initcall_debug single
  
   0000000000000000 - 000000000009f000 (usable)
   000000000009f000 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
@@ -103,13 +103,13 @@
   32, nr_cpu_ids  4
   2063260
   Normal
-  root=UUID=cb9d814f-d885-435b-8e6d-ac17c0ac5aa1 ro quiet vga=0x317 debug initcall_debug
+  root=UUID=cb9d814f-d885-435b-8e6d-ac17c0ac5aa1 ro quiet vga=0x317 iommu=memaper=3 debug initcall_debug single
 
   4096 (order  12, 32768 bytes)
   2000
 
 
-  Detected 2310.513 MHz processor.
+  Detected 2310.518 MHz processor.
   IRQ7.
   colour dummy device 80x25
 
@@ -120,9 +120,8 @@
 
 
 
-
-  Registered nosave memory  0000000004000000 - 0000000008000000
-  8194600k/9437184k available (2224k kernel code, 192468k reserved, 1080k data, 392k init)
+  Registered nosave memory  0000000020000000 - 0000000030000000
+  7997992k/9437184k available (2224k kernel code, 389076k reserved, 1080k data, 392k init)
   page pool initialized 1 of 1 pages preallocated
 
 
@@ -528,9 +527,9 @@
 
 
   Disabling AGP.
-  aperture base @ 4000000 size 65536 KB
+  aperture base @ 20000000 size 262144 KB
   using GART IOMMU.
-  Reserving 64MB of IOMMU area in the AGP aperture
+  Reserving 256MB of IOMMU area in the AGP aperture
 
 
   at MMIO 0xfefff000, IRQs 2, 8, 31
@@ -964,7 +963,7 @@
 
 
 
- 05  setting system clock to 2008-08-29 06 54 38 UTC (1219992878)
+ 05  setting system clock to 2008-08-29 06 57 31 UTC (1219993051)
 
 
 
@@ -978,124 +977,111 @@
   Expecting a [Reference] package element, found type 0
   LNXTHERM 01 is registered as thermal_zone0
   Thermal Zone [THRM] (40 C)
-  PCI Interrupt Link [APCL] enabled at IRQ 23
-  PCI Interrupt 0000 00 0a.1[B] -> Link [APCL] -> GSI 23 (level, low) -> IRQ 23
-  Setting latency timer of device 0000 00 0a.1 to 64
- 00 0a.1  EHCI Host Controller
- 00 0a.1  new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
- 00 0a.1  debug port 1
-  cache line size of 64 is not supported by device 0000 00 0a.1
- 00 0a.1  irq 23, io mem 0xfe02e000
-
   2006 August 04 USB 1.1 'Open' Host Controller (OHCI) Driver
+  PCI Interrupt Link [APCF] enabled at IRQ 23
+  PCI Interrupt 0000 00 0a.0[A] -> Link [APCF] -> GSI 23 (level, low) -> IRQ 23
+  Setting latency timer of device 0000 00 0a.0 to 64
+ 00 0a.0  OHCI Host Controller
+ 00 0a.0  new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
+ 00 0a.0  irq 23, io mem 0xfe02f000
+
 
 
- 00 0a.1  USB 2.0 started, EHCI 1.00, driver 10 Dec 2004
   configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
  1.0  USB hub found
  1.0  10 ports detected
   fd0 is 1.44M
 
-  New USB device found, idVendor=1d6b, idProduct=0002
-  New USB device strings  Mfr=3, Product=2, SerialNumber=1
-  Product  EHCI Host Controller
-  Manufacturer  Linux 2.6.26-1-amd64 ehci_hcd
-  SerialNumber  0000 00 0a.1
-  PCI Interrupt Link [APCF] enabled at IRQ 22
-  PCI Interrupt 0000 00 0a.0[A] -> Link [APCF] -> GSI 22 (level, low) -> IRQ 22
-  Setting latency timer of device 0000 00 0a.0 to 64
- 00 0a.0  OHCI Host Controller
- 00 0a.0  new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
- 00 0a.0  irq 22, io mem 0xfe02f000
-  configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
- 1.0  USB hub found
- 1.0  10 ports detected
   New USB device found, idVendor=1d6b, idProduct=0001
   New USB device strings  Mfr=3, Product=2, SerialNumber=1
   Product  OHCI Host Controller
   Manufacturer  Linux 2.6.26-1-amd64 ohci_hcd
   SerialNumber  0000 00 0a.0
+  PCI Interrupt Link [APCL] enabled at IRQ 22
+  PCI Interrupt 0000 00 0a.1[B] -> Link [APCL] -> GSI 22 (level, low) -> IRQ 22
+  Setting latency timer of device 0000 00 0a.1 to 64
+ 00 0a.1  EHCI Host Controller
+ 00 0a.1  new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
+ 00 0a.1  debug port 1
+  cache line size of 64 is not supported by device 0000 00 0a.1
+ 00 0a.1  irq 22, io mem 0xfe02e000
+ 00 0a.1  USB 2.0 started, EHCI 1.00, driver 10 Dec 2004
+  configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
+ 1.0  USB hub found
+ 1.0  10 ports detected
+  New USB device found, idVendor=1d6b, idProduct=0002
+  New USB device strings  Mfr=3, Product=2, SerialNumber=1
+  Product  EHCI Host Controller
+  Manufacturer  Linux 2.6.26-1-amd64 ehci_hcd
+  SerialNumber  0000 00 0a.1
   Reverse Engineered nForce ethernet driver. Version 0.61.
   PCI Interrupt Link [APCH] enabled at IRQ 21
   PCI Interrupt 0000 00 10.0[A] -> Link [APCH] -> GSI 21 (level, low) -> IRQ 21
   Setting latency timer of device 0000 00 10.0 to 64
-  new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 3
-  configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
-  New USB device found, idVendor=0781, idProduct=5406
-  New USB device strings  Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
-  Product  U3 Cruzer Micro
-  Manufacturer  SanDisk Corporation
-  SerialNumber  0000162152754B6C
-
  00 10.0  ifname eth0, PHY OUI 0x5043 @ 1, addr 00 18 f3 84 26 c0
  00 10.0  highdma csum vlan pwrctl mgmt timirq gbit lnktim msi desc-v3
   PCI Interrupt Link [AMC1] enabled at IRQ 20
   PCI Interrupt 0000 00 11.0[A] -> Link [AMC1] -> GSI 20 (level, low) -> IRQ 20
   Setting latency timer of device 0000 00 11.0 to 64
-  new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 4
+  new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 3
   configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
   New USB device found, idVendor=0781, idProduct=5406
   New USB device strings  Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
   Product  U3 Cruzer Micro
   Manufacturer  SanDisk Corporation
-  SerialNumber  000016215275A63E
-  new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 5
+  SerialNumber  0000162152754B6C
  00 11.0  ifname eth1, PHY OUI 0x5043 @ 1, addr 00 18 f3 84 36 c0
  00 11.0  highdma csum vlan pwrctl mgmt timirq gbit lnktim msi desc-v3
   PCI Interrupt Link [APC1] enabled at IRQ 16
   PCI Interrupt 0000 02 0b.0[A] -> Link [APC1] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
   fw-host0  OHCI-1394 1.1 (PCI)  IRQ=[16]  MMIO=[fdfff000-fdfff7ff]  Max Packet=[2048]  IR/IT contexts=[4/8]
- 00 0d.0  version 3.5
+
  03 00.0  version 1.1
+  PCI Interrupt Link [APC7] enabled at IRQ 16
+  PCI Interrupt 0000 03 00.0[A] -> Link [APC7] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
+  Setting latency timer of device 0000 03 00.0 to 64
+ 00 0d.0  version 3.5
   PCI Interrupt Link [APSI] enabled at IRQ 23
   PCI Interrupt 0000 00 0d.0[A] -> Link [APSI] -> GSI 23 (level, low) -> IRQ 23
  00 0d.0  Using SWNCQ mode
   Setting latency timer of device 0000 00 0d.0 to 64
-  PCI Interrupt Link [APC7] enabled at IRQ 16
-  PCI Interrupt 0000 03 00.0[A] -> Link [APC7] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
-  Setting latency timer of device 0000 03 00.0 to 64
-
   Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
-  sata_nv
   sata_sil24
+  sata_nv
   sata_sil24
   SATA max UDMA/100 host m128@0xfdeff000 port 0xfdef8000 irq 16
   SATA max UDMA/100 host m128@0xfdeff000 port 0xfdefa000 irq 16
   sata_nv
   SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x9f0 ctl 0xbf0 bmdma 0xe000 irq 23
   SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x970 ctl 0xb70 bmdma 0xe008 irq 23
+
+  new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 4
   configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
-  New USB device found, idVendor=0bda, idProduct=8187
+  New USB device found, idVendor=0781, idProduct=5406
   New USB device strings  Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
-  Product  RTL8187_Wireless
-  Manufacturer  Manufacturer_Realtek_RTL8187_
-  SerialNumber  0015AF0B59A6
-  new low speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 2
+  Product  U3 Cruzer Micro
+  Manufacturer  SanDisk Corporation
+  SerialNumber  000016215275A63E
+  new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 5
   SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300)
   ATA-7  ST31000340AS, SD01, max UDMA/133
   1953525168 sectors, multi 1  LBA48 NCQ (depth 31/32)
   configured for UDMA/133
   configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
-  New USB device found, idVendor=046d, idProduct=c50c
-  New USB device strings  Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=0
-  Product  USB Receiver
-  Manufacturer  Logitech
+  New USB device found, idVendor=0bda, idProduct=8187
+  New USB device strings  Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
+  Product  RTL8187_Wireless
+  Manufacturer  Manufacturer_Realtek_RTL8187_
+  SerialNumber  0015AF0B59A6
   SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
   SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
-  registered new interface driver usb-storage
-
-  registered new interface driver hiddev
   device found at 3
   waiting for device to settle before scanning
+  registered new interface driver usb-storage
+
   device found at 4
   waiting for device to settle before scanning
-  Logitech USB Receiver as /class/input/input1
-  USB HID v1.10 Keyboard [Logitech USB Receiver] on usb-0000 00 0a.0-2
-
-  Logitech USB Receiver as /class/input/input2
-  USB HID v1.10 Mouse [Logitech USB Receiver] on usb-0000 00 0a.0-2
-  registered new interface driver usbhid
-  v2.6 USB HID core driver
+  new low speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 2
   SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300)
   ATAPI  TSSTcorp CDDVDW SH-S203N, SB00, max UDMA/100
   configured for UDMA/100
@@ -1109,7 +1095,20 @@
   sata_nv
   SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x9e0 ctl 0xbe0 bmdma 0xcc00 irq 22
   SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x960 ctl 0xb60 bmdma 0xcc08 irq 22
+  configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
+  New USB device found, idVendor=046d, idProduct=c50c
+  New USB device strings  Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=0
+  Product  USB Receiver
+  Manufacturer  Logitech
+  registered new interface driver hiddev
+  Logitech USB Receiver as /class/input/input1
+  USB HID v1.10 Keyboard [Logitech USB Receiver] on usb-0000 00 0a.0-2
   Host added  ID BUS[0-00 1023]  GUID[0011d80000eaece5]
+
+  Logitech USB Receiver as /class/input/input2
+  USB HID v1.10 Mouse [Logitech USB Receiver] on usb-0000 00 0a.0-2
+  registered new interface driver usbhid
+  v2.6 USB HID core driver
   SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300)
   SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300)
   PCI Interrupt Link [ASA2] enabled at IRQ 21
@@ -1152,11 +1151,11 @@
 
   mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
   device scan complete
-  device scan complete
- 0 0 0  Direct-Access     SanDisk  U3 Cruzer Micro  3.27 PQ  0 ANSI  2
  0 0 0  Direct-Access     SanDisk  U3 Cruzer Micro  3.27 PQ  0 ANSI  2
  0 0 1  CD-ROM            SanDisk  U3 Cruzer Micro  3.27 PQ  0 ANSI  2
  0 0 0  [sdb] 8015502 512-byte hardware sectors (4104 MB)
+  device scan complete
+ 0 0 0  Direct-Access     SanDisk  U3 Cruzer Micro  3.27 PQ  0 ANSI  2
  0 0 0  [sdb] Write Protect is off
  0 0 0  [sdb] Mode Sense  03 00 00 00
  0 0 0  [sdb] Assuming drive cache  write through
@@ -1166,8 +1165,8 @@
  0 0 0  [sdb] Assuming drive cache  write through
   sdb1
  0 0 0  [sdb] Attached SCSI removable disk
- 0 0 0  Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0
  0 0 1  CD-ROM            SanDisk  U3 Cruzer Micro  3.27 PQ  0 ANSI  2
+ 0 0 0  Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0
   scsi3-mmc drive  8x/40x writer xa/form2 cdda tray
  0 0 1  Attached scsi CD-ROM sr1
  0 0 1  Attached scsi generic sg3 type 5
@@ -1193,17 +1192,17 @@
   nForce2 SMBus adapter at 0x1c00
   nForce2 SMBus adapter at 0x1c40
   PC Speaker as /class/input/input5
+  Selected rate control algorithm 'pid'
+  Driver 'pcspkr' is already registered, aborting...
   PCI Interrupt Link [AAZA] enabled at IRQ 20
   PCI Interrupt 0000 00 0e.1[B] -> Link [AAZA] -> GSI 20 (level, low) -> IRQ 20
   Setting latency timer of device 0000 00 0e.1 to 64
-  Driver 'pcspkr' is already registered, aborting...
-  Selected rate control algorithm 'pid'
   the driver 'parport_pc' has been registered
  0a  reported by Plug and Play ACPI
   PC-style at 0x378, irq 7 [PCSPP,TRISTATE,EPP]
- 0a  driver attached
   hwaddr 00 15 af 0b 59 a6, rtl8187 V1 + rtl8225z2
   registered new interface driver rtl8187
+ 0a  driver attached
 
   module loaded
   module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel.
@@ -1223,43 +1222,19 @@
   Registered protocol family 10
   Disabled Privacy Extensions
   wlan0  link is not ready
-  Registered udp transport module.
-  Registered tcp transport module.
-
-  Found 1 AMD Athlon(tm) X2 Dual Core Processor BE-2400 processors (2 cpu cores) (version 2.20.00)
-  ACPI Processor support is required for SMP systems but is absent. Please load the ACPI Processor module before starting this driver.
-  ACPI Processor support is required for SMP systems but is absent. Please load the ACPI Processor module before starting this driver.
+  Initial auth_alg=0
+  authenticate with AP 00 18 39 c0 4f 1b
   Initial auth_alg=0
   authenticate with AP 00 18 39 c0 4f 1b
   RX authentication from 00 18 39 c0 4f 1b (alg=0 transaction=2 status=0)
   authenticated
   associate with AP 00 18 39 c0 4f 1b
+  authentication frame received from 00 18 39 c0 4f 1b, but not in authenticate state - ignored
   RX AssocResp from 00 18 39 c0 4f 1b (capab=0x411 status=0 aid=1)
   associated
   switched to short barker preamble (BSSID=00 18 39 c0 4f 1b)
   wlan0  link becomes ready
-  using parport0 (interrupt-driven).
-  user-space parallel port driver
-  Using /var/lib/nfs/v4recovery as the NFSv4 state recovery directory
-  starting 90-second grace period
-  Trying to deactivate the NMI watchdog permanently...
-  Successfully done.
-  Found 2 processor cores.
-  fAsync=1 u64DiffCores=1150118.
-  TSC mode is 'asynchronous', kernel timer mode is 'normal'.
-  Successfully loaded version 1.6.2_OSE (interface 0x00070002).
-  `ntpd' uses 32-bit capabilities (legacy support in use)
+  Registered udp transport module.
+  Registered tcp transport module.
+
   no IPv6 routers present
-  Core ver 2.11
-  Registered protocol family 31
-  HCI device and connection manager initialized
-  HCI socket layer initialized
-  L2CAP ver 2.9
-  L2CAP socket layer initialized
-  RFCOMM socket layer initialized
-  RFCOMM TTY layer initialized
-  RFCOMM ver 1.8
-  no link during initialization.
-  eth1  link is not ready
-  no link during initialization.
-  eth0  link is not ready

Re: 2.6.25 DMA: Out of SW-IOMMU space - Asus M2N32 AMD 8GB memory

[Yinghai Lu]

On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 12:49 AM, Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@cante.net> wrote:
>> On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 1:49 PM, Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@cante.net> wrote:
>>
>>> Krzysztof Halasa <khc@pm.waw.pl> writes:
>>>
>>>> Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@cante.net> writes:
>>>>
>>>>> What, if after booting to 2.6.26 and without any 'iommu' boot parameters,
>>>>> there still appears "Out of Iommu space" messages? What kind of logs
>>>>> should I post?
>>>>
>>>> You shouldn't be getting "Out of SW-IOMMU space" messages when not
>>>> using SW-IOMMU.
>>>
>>> REF: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/725293 (thread start)
>>>
>>> I regret to report that:
>>>
>>> - Upgraded to kernel 2.6.26-1-amd64 (Debian/unstable 2.6.26-3)
>>
>> can you send out whole boot log? with "debug initcall_debug"
>
> See below.
>
>> http://people.redhat.com/mingo/tip.git/readme.txt
>
> Could you explain this document a bit. What git commands should I use to
> retrive test kernel to build?


mkdir linux.trees.git || exit -1
cd linux.trees.git

git init
git remote add linus
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git

git remote add tip
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip.git

git remote update

git checkout -b tip-latest tip/master

can you fix your mail client? it stripped Cc and automatically?

YH

Re: 2.6.25 DMA: Out of SW-IOMMU space - Asus M2N32 AMD 8GB memory

[Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi]

(sorry, my english, again, very BAD!)

(not in mailing-list, please CC to me)


Jari Aalto <jari.aalto <at> cante.net> writes:

>> When booted kernel with no iommu parameter, it uses the iommu gart
>> (from amd) and the size of the aperture is 64MB You can try to grow
>> this size with iommu=memaper=2 for 128MB or 3 for 256MB. I don't have
>> experience with this, but i read that this, solves the problem.
>
>See my original bug report, which included experiences with
>memaper. Unofrtunately they didn't help:
>
>    REF: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/725293 (thread >start)
>
>but I'll try that once more with this 2.6.26 kernel to double check.

No your options are bad,

You have mixed options for "swiotlb" and "amd gart", see the
Documentation/x86_64/boot-options.txt

iommu=soft,memaper=3 swiotlb=65536 BAD.

memaper=3 don't have any effects here, memaper is only for "AMD GART"

The noagp option in this motherboard is redundant.

iommu=noagp,noaperture,off swiotlb=512M BAD combination options!
OFF, OFF, OFF, ON: The result are unknown.

You need to use the IOMMU (from AMD GART) that with your options: you
never used.

When you boot with no iommu options, kernels uses the AMD GART in this
system, with an aperture of 64MB (too small) to fix, you need only one
option: iommu=memaper=3

¡Buena suerte!



>
>> I have the similar hardware, but when boot in 64 bits, limit the
>> memory with mem=4G (discarded 0.5G that are (remaped from pci space)
>> beyond 4G) and iommu=noaperture. (This is not option for you, will be
>> discard 4G of RAM)
>
>Interestingly 'noaperture' together with 'noagp' has been the best
>option so far. It gives workign system for about week, but eventually
>the "out of IOMMU space" messages start appear.

>The system has always seen the full 8 GB memory without problems.


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Re: 2.6.25 DMA: Out of SW-IOMMU space - Asus M2N32 AMD 8GB memory

[Jari Aalto]

Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi <vmlinuz386@yahoo.com.ar> writes:

>>    REF: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/725293 (thread >start)
>>
>>but I'll try that once more with this 2.6.26 kernel to double check.
>
> You have mixed options for "swiotlb" and "amd gart", see the
> Documentation/x86_64/boot-options.txt

It's difficult to find the pointer that could explain the correct use of
the options and their combinations.

> iommu=soft,memaper=3 swiotlb=65536 BAD.
>
> memaper=3 don't have any effects here, memaper is only for "AMD GART"
>
> The noagp option in this motherboard is redundant.
>
> iommu=noagp,noaperture,off swiotlb=512M BAD combination options!
> OFF, OFF, OFF, ON: The result are unknown.
>
> You need to use the IOMMU (from AMD GART) that with your options: you
> never used.
>
> When you boot with no iommu options, kernels uses the AMD GART in this
> system, with an aperture of 64MB (too small) to fix, you need only one
> option: iommu=memaper=3

This sort of advice wouldbe wonderful if it wereincluded in the spec,
which as of now is too technical for mere mortals:

    http://www.mjmwired.net/kernel/Documentation/x86_64/boot-options.txt

I'm not surprised that end user cannot know what combination of options
make or does not make sense. I'll try at next boot with plain:

    iommu=memaper=3

Thank you,
Jari