From: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
To: Jes Sorensen <jes@trained-monkey.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: acenic >4gig sendfile problem
Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2002 23:46:37 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3D1811CD.70103@us.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: m3r8iwvgl8.fsf@trained-monkey.org
Jes Sorensen wrote:
>>>>>>"Dave" == Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com> writes:
>>>>>
>
> Dave> When doing sendfile with my acenic card on my 8xPIII-700 and PAE
> Dave> running 2.4.18, I'm getting all zeros in the files being
> Dave> transmitted. Running the Redhat 2.4.18-4 kernel fixes the
> Dave> problem. I saw this entry in the rpm's changelog: * Sat Aug 25
> Dave> 2001 Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> - fix the acenic driver bug
> Dave> that caused random kernel memory being sent out on the wire, on
> Dave> x86 systems with more than 4 GB RAM.
>
> Actually I think you're hitting a bug in pci_map_page() rather than in
> the acenic.driver.
>
> Try the patch from Ben LaHaise included below.
>
Thanks for the patch. I'll give it a shot when I get back from OLS.
--
Dave Hansen
haveblue@us.ibm.com
prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-06-25 6:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-06-10 21:55 acenic >4gig sendfile problem Dave Hansen
2002-06-24 15:31 ` Jes Sorensen
2002-06-24 15:54 ` Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
2002-06-24 16:02 ` David S. Miller
2002-06-25 6:46 ` Dave Hansen [this message]
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