> On (22/08/07 16:27), Luck, Tony didst pronounce: > > > The more ioc's you have, the more space you will use. > > > > Default SW IOTLB allocation is 64MB ... how much should we see > > used per ioc? > > > > Kamelesh: You could try increasing the amount of sw iotlb space > > available by booting with a swiotlb=131072 argument (argument > > value is the number of 2K slabs to allocate ... 131072 would > > give you four times as much space as the default allocation). > > > > I tried that value and just in case swiotlb=262144. An IA-64 machines I > have here fails with the same message anyway. i.e. > > [ 19.834906] mptbase: Initiating ioc1 bringup > [ 20.317152] ioc1: LSI53C1030 C0: Capabilities={Initiator} > [ 15.474303] scsi1 : ioc1: LSI53C1030 C0, FwRev=01032821h, Ports=1, MaxQ=222, IRQ=72 > [ 20.669730] GSI 142 (level, low) -> CPU 5 (0x1200) vector 73 > [ 20.675602] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:41:03.0[A] -> GSI 142 (level, low) -> IRQ 73 > [ 20.683508] mptbase: Initiating ioc2 bringup > [ 21.166796] ioc2: LSI53C1030 C0: Capabilities={Initiator} > [ 21.180539] DMA: Out of SW-IOMMU space for 263200 bytes at device ? > [ 21.187018] Kernel panic - not syncing: DMA: Memory would be corrupted I saw same trouble on my box, and I chased what was wrong. Here is today's progress of mine. __get_free_pages() of swiotlb_alloc_coherent() fails in rc3-mm1. (See following patch) But, it doesn't fail on rc2-mm2, and kernel can boot up. Hmmm.... (2.6.23-rc3-mm1) --- swiotlb_alloc_coherent flags=21 order=3 ret=0000000000000000 DMA: Out of SW-IOMMU space for 266368 bytes at device ? Kernel panic - not syncing: DMA: Memory would be corrupted --- (2.6.23-rc2-mm2) --- swiotlb_alloc_coherent flags=21 order=3 ret=e000000020080000 : (boot up continue...) --- lib/swiotlb.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) Index: current/lib/swiotlb.c =================================================================== --- current.orig/lib/swiotlb.c 2007-08-23 22:27:01.000000000 +0900 +++ current/lib/swiotlb.c 2007-08-23 22:29:49.000000000 +0900 @@ -455,6 +455,8 @@ swiotlb_alloc_coherent(struct device *hw flags |= GFP_DMA; ret = (void *)__get_free_pages(flags, order); + + printk("%s flags=%0x order=%d ret=%p\n",__func__, flags, order, ret); if (ret && address_needs_mapping(hwdev, virt_to_bus(ret))) { /* * The allocated memory isn't reachable by the device. -- Yasunori Goto - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ia64" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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