From: Milan Broz <mbroz@redhat.com>
To: Ed Lin - PTU <ed.lin@promise.com>
Cc: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>,
Markus Schulz <msc@antzsystem.de>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
device-mapper development <dm-devel@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: data corruption with stex (Promise HW-Raid) driver and device-mapper
Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2010 10:57:04 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CEE32F0.4030302@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <85ABFDC4641C4847BA6088F2982EFD8F049D4273@nonamew.ptu.promise.com>
On 11/16/2010 02:35 AM, Ed Lin - PTU wrote:
> The stex driver sets sg_tablesize as 32 (for st_yel it's 38) in the probe
> entry. It seems that this value was overridden by the system if using
> dm/lvm, for unknown reason. The driver received requests with more
> sg items than registered. Sg item number could be as high as 64. This
> is completely unexpected. The firmware could not handle such
> requests, and error occurred.
Device-mapper respects hw restrictions, so it must be bug somewhere.
Please cc dm-devel if you think that problem is there.
Milan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-11-25 9:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-11-14 12:46 data corruption with stex (Promise HW-Raid) driver and device-mapper Markus Schulz
2010-11-14 19:11 ` Dan Carpenter
2010-11-16 1:35 ` Ed Lin - PTU
2010-11-16 8:37 ` Markus Schulz
2010-11-25 9:57 ` Milan Broz [this message]
2010-11-29 19:35 ` Ed Lin - PTU
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