Re: USB disk corruption on Xen 4.1.0 & Linux 2.6.38.7

[Anthony Wright <anthony@overnetdata.com>]

On 20/06/2011 13:39, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 10:45:41AM +0100, Anthony Wright wrote:
>> On 16/06/2011 21:10, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
>>> So a couple of things popped at when looking at this:
>>> a). "sata_nv 0000:00:08.1: BMDMA: failed to set dma mask, falling back to PIO"
>>>
>>> That is not good. Somehow it wasn't able to set a 32-bit mask. Don't know
>>> if that is due to the driver or just that the kernel can't do it (b/c it
>>> was compiled with some special options).
>> I never saw anything in dmesg or any other logs.
> Uh, I copied that from your logs.
>
>>> b). Are you using some special .config option? If you were to use a normal
>>>  distro would you see this?
>> My config is attached.
> Great.
>>> c). You are using a 32-bit dom0. Didn't notice it until now so I wonder
>>>   if there are some lingering issues (for example not flushing the highmemory
>>>   mappings) that are at foot. Had you tried a 64-bit kernel before?
>> I haven't tried 64 bit because I need a 32 bit kernel.
>>> d). Does the problem exist if you try it with a 2.6.39 kernel or the 3.0-rc3?
>> It happens on every kernel I've tried which is 2.6.39, 2.6.39.x & 3.0-rc3
>>> e). Can you run lspci -n ? There is a pretty big file in drivers/usb/host/pci-quirks.c
>>>   Want to check against your machine.
>> I have the problem on two machines and have attached the lspci -n for
>> both of them.
> Is it possible for you provide this binary blob/USB disk somewhere so I can
> test it on my hardware?
>
Just to let the list know, that after a lot of work by konrad we
discovered that the problem while present in 3.0-rc3 was no longer
present in the final 3.0 release of linux. We never quite understood the
cause and I was the only person who could reproduce it reliably, but
since it's now fixed we're regarding the issue as closed.

thanks,

Anthony.