Wes Shull wrote:
I think that the following patch could fix this:
http://marc.info/?l=linux-ide&m=123484533504307&w=2
The patch looks reasonable to me. I'm CCing the reporter of the bug. Wes,
would you be able to test out Fujita's patch linked above?
I grabbed the srpm for the fedoraized 2.6.29-0.137.rc5.git4 from koji,
applied the patch, and tested--no joy, I'm still getting the warning.
Would there be any value to me trying this with a vanilla+dma-debug
kernel build?
Tomorrow I'm going to bump up the show_num_errors (currently at 1) in
the dma debug patch to see if maybe that produces anything else
interesting;
I think that probably it's not interesting much. Once you get a
dma-debug error, the later errors are not reliable.
For example, dma-debug finds a dma-debug error about a NIC, you could
get false dma-debug errors about even good device drivers.
I've already got another bug that races with nv_sata to
get that first warning (in forcedeth, so you probably don't care, but
if so see https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=484494 ).
As I explained above, you can't have other dma-debug error source. Can
you test only nv_sata with my patch again?
Ok, I blocked forcedeth from loading, rebooted (still running the
kernel I built with your patch--despite these warning messages, it's
100% stable in all my testing), verified that forcedeth hadn't
loaded... but I still got the nv_sata warning. So that's not it
either :(
I suppose it makes sense it wouldn't fix this particular problem, though
I think the patch is still correct (and Fujita should likely push it for
-next). In this case it's complaining about a mismatch of one of the
element sizes, not the number of elements which is what it was fixing
Fujita, do you know if there is some other kind of merging that the GART
IOMMU code could be doing that would be tripping up this debug code?
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