From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 25 Jun 2002 02:47:06 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 25 Jun 2002 02:47:05 -0400 Received: from e1.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.101]:39580 "EHLO e1.ny.us.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 25 Jun 2002 02:47:05 -0400 Message-ID: <3D1811CD.70103@us.ibm.com> Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2002 23:46:37 -0700 From: Dave Hansen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020607 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jes Sorensen CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: acenic >4gig sendfile problem References: <3D05204B.4010103@us.ibm.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Jes Sorensen wrote: >>>>>>"Dave" == Dave Hansen 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 - 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