Re: [bug] ata subsystem related crash with latest -git

Jens Axboe
2007-10-18T07:06:24Z

On Thu, Oct 18 2007, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Mark Lord wrote:
>> Okay, mine is dying with EIP at blk_rq_map_sg+0xcb/0x160.
>> Screen photo is at http://rtr.ca/recent/2.6.23-git12-crash.jpg,
>> but the top was cut off (isn't there a new config option or patch
>> to do double-columns or scrollback or something ???.
>
> Is this a sata_mv box? If so, could you try this patch?

If anything, that shrinks the size of the resulting request. Did this
patch make any difference to you?

Now sata_mv should not be doing this (already discussed), but as long as
it's only lowering the physical sg count then it should not cause any
bugs at least.

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Jens Axboe