From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 26 Feb 2003 12:15:16 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 26 Feb 2003 12:15:16 -0500 Received: from mms1.broadcom.com ([63.70.210.58]:23308 "EHLO mms1.broadcom.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 26 Feb 2003 12:15:10 -0500 From: "Kimball Brown" To: "Alan Cox" , davej@codemonkey.org.uk cc: torvalds@transmeta.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: RE: Tighten up serverworks workaround. Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 09:27:26 -0800 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: <200302261636.h1QGaAv21387@devserv.devel.redhat.com> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 X-WSS-ID: 124227E4376257-01-01 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org How can e help? Please give me a configuration and how the bug manifests inself. Kim Brown VP, Business Development kimball@serverworks.com 2451 Mission College Blvd Santa Clara, CA 95054 (408)922-3174 (408)799-3500 (Mobile) (408)922-3192 (FAX) -----Original Message----- From: Alan Cox [mailto:alan@redhat.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2003 8:36 AM To: davej@codemonkey.org.uk Cc: alan@redhat.com; torvalds@transmeta.com; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Tighten up serverworks workaround. > I've reports of people with rev6's who have reported success > with that workaround commented out. Could be they never > pushed the machine hard enough to trigger a bug, but I'd > have thought this breakage would show up pretty quickly. It doesn't. It requires the right patterns and took Dell quite some time to identify and pin down. If its like the 450NX one which I suspect it is then you have to have pending misordered stores to a write gathering target evicted by another read. > My attempts to contact serverworks in the past have fallen on > deaf ears. maybe you have better luck ? I'll try. I got on ok with them for the OSB4 stuff but thats a long time ago and they've been eaten since then [Bcc'd to the person I suspect is the right starting point] Alan