Re: 64-bit AMD panic

[Chris Snook <csnook@redhat.com>]

linux-os (Dick Johnson) wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> We have 64-bit production machines that use the kernel shipped with
> a RedHat distribution, linux-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4smp. There have been
> no problems until we received recent hardware. With the latest hardware,
> which the vendor claims hasn't changed, the machines panic when either
> a USB mouse or USB keyboard are plugged in.
> 
> Machine:
> 
> Supermicro H8DME-2
> Two quad-Core AMD Opteron CPUs
> 64GB DDR2 400 SDRAM
> 6 SATA2 3.0Gb/s HD Support
> 2 64-bit 133/100 MHz PCI-X
> 2 64=bit 100MHz PCI-X
> ATI ES1000 Graphics
> 
> Chipset nVida MCP55 Pro
> NEC uPD720400
> USB FUCI, uses ohci_hcd driver.
> 
> When mouse or keyboard is inserted, I get a panic with:
> "map_single bounce buffer is not DMA'ble."
> 
> This comes from: linux-2.6.11-prep/arch/ia64/lib/swiotlb.c,
> line 440. I added 64-bit long print hex to the panic statement
> so I could display the address it doesn't like.

You're using an Itanium kernel on Opteron?

> The address it doesn't like is: 0x000000022a0aa000
> 
> Does anybody have a clue what might be the matter and how to fix it?

If the hardware "didn't change" then it could be a BIOS bug, or just a 
different BIOS behavior that your old kernel doesn't handle well.  Try 
the same version you had on the old hardware.  I once had a desktop box 
that developed a similar behavior when I twiddled the memory hole 
remapping settings in the BIOS.

-- Chris