On Mon, 6 Feb 2006, Andi Kleen wrote: > On Monday 06 February 2006 17:45, Hugh Dickins wrote: > > > > But all this presupposes that someone is suddenly going to change the > > x86_64 gart_map_sg (and subfunctions), or else force its iommu=nomerge: > > that won't be me. > > Ok i changed it to conform to the gospel. I gave it some basic pounding LTP/dd IO with > and without IOMMU force, but it's not that well tested. More testing welcome. Great, thanks Andi. One small correction to the comment... > Don't touch the non DMA members in the sg list in dma_map_sg in the IOMMU > > Some drivers (in particular ipr) ran into problems because they No, the problem hasn't knowingly been sighted on ipr, it was the st driver that Ryan's been seeing it with - ipr just came from my looking around for like instances. > reused the sg lists after passing them to pci_map_sg(). The merging > procedure in the K8 GART IOMMU corrupted the state. This patch > changes it to only touch the dma* entries during merging, > but not the other fields. Approach suggested by Dave Miller. > > I did some basic tests with CONFIG_IOMMU_DEBUG (LTP, large dd) > and without and it hold up, but needs more testing. Below is, I think, the 2.6.15 equivalent of the patch Andi posted. Ryan cannot effectively test Andi's patch on 2.6.16-rc because Mike Christie's scsi_execute_async changes have serendipitously fixed the st instance. Ryan, would you be able to test the patch below on 2.6.15 without my st.c,st.h patch? But I fear Ryan may be growing a little tired of this surfeit of fixes: he's waited months for one, now he's been given one workaround and three fixes. Thanks, Hugh --- 2.6.15/arch/x86_64/kernel/pci-gart.c 2006-01-03 03:21:10.000000000 +0000 +++ linux/arch/x86_64/kernel/pci-gart.c 2006-02-06 21:33:17.000000000 +0000 @@ -477,7 +477,6 @@ static int __dma_map_cont(struct scatter BUG_ON(i > start && s->offset); if (i == start) { - *sout = *s; sout->dma_address = iommu_bus_base; sout->dma_address += iommu_page*PAGE_SIZE + s->offset; sout->dma_length = s->length; @@ -492,7 +491,7 @@ static int __dma_map_cont(struct scatter SET_LEAK(iommu_page); addr += PAGE_SIZE; iommu_page++; - } + } } BUG_ON(iommu_page - iommu_start != pages); return 0; @@ -504,7 +503,6 @@ static inline int dma_map_cont(struct sc { if (!need) { BUG_ON(stopat - start != 1); - *sout = sg[start]; sout->dma_length = sg[start].length; return 0; } @@ -622,7 +620,7 @@ void dma_unmap_sg(struct device *dev, st } for (i = 0; i < nents; i++) { struct scatterlist *s = &sg[i]; - if (!s->dma_length || !s->length) + if (!s->dma_length) break; dma_unmap_single(dev, s->dma_address, s->dma_length, dir); } - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html