Re: 2.6.24-rc & SB600 AHCI no go on >=4GB of RAM

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Andi Kleen wrote:
>  
>> The AHCI code falls back to 32bit DMA in that case. Which in turn
>> causes the problem seen by Srihari. There is not much printk sticking
>> necessary, the code is simply not handling this. 
> 
> What code is not handling what? 
> 
> IOMMU merging should be always safe. If it is not the driver should
> not submit things in a single SG list.

Yeap, a sg merged by IOMMU should be safe.  It's just another contiguous
memory area from the POV of the controller anyway.  I wonder what went
wrong here.  What has exactly changed with iommu_merge patch?

-- 
tejun
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