Hi Folks ! Do that ring any bell ? I've been trying a 9230 on a power box here (a 9235 on the same machine works fine) and it blows up with an IOMMU violation early during init. >From what I can tell the scenario is: - So we still haven't issued any command per-se, all our DMA command buffers etc... are all 0's at the point of the error. - The core libata calls the AHCI driver's ahci_hardreset() for each port in a separate thread. They all call sata_link_hardreset(). - This in turns calls sata_link_resume() which write to the SCR_CONTROL register as follow: scontrol = (scontrol & 0x0f0) | 0x300; if ((rc = sata_scr_write(link, SCR_CONTROL, scontrol))) { printk(" -> sata_link_resume FAIL 2\n"); return rc; } /* * Some PHYs react badly if SStatus is pounded * immediately after resuming. Delay 200ms before * debouncing. */ ata_msleep(link->ap, 200); I get the interrupt from the IOMMU about 2ms after the write to SCR_CONTROL. Now, pending misinterpretation of some bits on my side, it looks like the bad DMA is a DMA *read* from address 0 (which we never map, typically to catch driver bugs). I went through a few theories with this one but so far none held. I don't think it's a D2H FIS issue since the DMA pointers for that appear to be setup properly, the memory mapped, etc... I though the chip might incorrectly/inadvertently try to (pre)fetch a command. At that point all 32 command slots are all 0's, so if it ignored the size it might try to fetch from command address 0. So I added a loop to fill all 32 slots with a valid command address in ahci_hardreset: + for (i = 0; i < 32; i++) + ahci_fill_cmd_slot(pp, i, 0); rc = sata_link_hardreset(link, timing, deadline, &online, ahci_check_ready); But that had basically no effect. I've contacted Marvell, but I was wondering if anybody here had already experienced something similar or has an idea of what else the chip might be doing wrong so we can try to find a workaround ? Cheers, Ben. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html