Hi,
As you can see below, the driver says "enable 64bit addressing=0"
when dumping nvram settings. The qlogic-1040 card is only a 32-bit
card plugged into a 64-bit slot. I guess the card is not original to
the ES40, I have other cards that I can use, i.e a 53c8xx is also
present in the system. Would it make sense to have the driver honor
the nvram flag for 64-bit addressing, at least for the 1040 cards? I'm
thinking I should give it a go... btw. the card runs fine even when
the driver is compiled in 64bit mode, just as long as I stay below 2GB
ram or when explicitly setting the DMA_BIT_MASK when building the
driver. (I guess most systems around when the qla1040 was hot stuff
had less than 2GB ram).
This is the output I get from running the driver with debug enabled:
[ 19.109365] qla1280: QLA1040 found on PCI bus 2, dev 4
[ 19.110341] scsi(0): 64 Bit PCI Addressing Enabled
[ 19.110341] Configure PCI space for adapter...
[ 19.111318] scsi(2): Verifying chip
[ 19.111318] qla1280_chip_diag: Checking mailboxes of chip
[ 19.111318] Loading firmware: qlogic/1040.bin
[ 19.749013] qla1280_start_firmware: Verifying checksum of loaded RISC code.
[ 19.757802] qla1280_start_firmware: start firmware running.
[ 19.760732] scsi(2): Configure NVRAM parameters
[ 19.760732] Using defaults for NVRAM:
[ 19.760732] qla1280 : initiator scsi id bus[0]=7
[ 19.760732] qla1280 : initiator scsi id bus[1]=7
[ 19.760732] qla1280 : bus reset delay[0]=3
[ 19.760732] qla1280 : bus reset delay[1]=3
[ 19.760732] qla1280 : retry count[0]=0
[ 19.760732] qla1280 : retry delay[0]=1
[ 19.760732] qla1280 : retry count[1]=0
[ 19.760732] qla1280 : retry delay[1]=1
[ 19.760732] qla1280 : async data setup time[0]=6
[ 19.760732] qla1280 : async data setup time[1]=6
[ 19.760732] qla1280 : req/ack active negation[0]=1
[ 19.760732] qla1280 : req/ack active negation[1]=1
[ 19.760732] qla1280 : data line active negation[0]=1
[ 19.760732] qla1280 : data line active negation[1]=1
[ 19.760732] qla1280 : disable loading risc code=0
[ 19.760732] qla1280 : enable 64bit addressing=0
[ 19.760732] qla1280 : selection timeout limit[0]=250
[ 19.760732] qla1280 : selection timeout limit[1]=250
[ 19.760732] qla1280 : max queue depth[0]=32
[ 19.760732] qla1280 : max queue depth[1]=32
[ 19.772450] scsi(2:0): Resetting SCSI BUS
[ 22.812488] scsi host2: QLogic QLA1040 PCI to SCSI Host Adapter
Firmware version: 7.65.06, Driver version 3.27.2
On Fri, Oct 25, 2024 at 10:00 PM Martin K. Petersen
<martin.petersen@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> Hi Magnus!
>
> > I've been running linux on alpha (alphaserver es40) for a while, using
> > a qlogic-1040 scsi controller. A few weeks ago I added more RAM to the
> > es40, but as soon as I got above 2GB RAM I started seeing file system
> > corruptions on the drive attached to the qlogic controller.
>
> The qla1280 driver has been used extensively on 64-bit platforms.
>
> Is your isp1040 original to the ES40? My Alphas used 53c8xx series
> controllers if I remember correctly. And with the ES40 being fairly
> recent (21264), I would have thought it would have used a slightly more
> modern controller than a 1040.
>
> > The nvram flag "enable_64bit_addressing" on the qlogic board is not
> > checked nor set by the driver.
>
> That would be a good place to start. Maybe if you could dump the NVRAM
> contents and validate if that is set by the 1040 firmware? I'm afraid I
> don't have a databook. But the 1040 was current right around the time
> the industry transitioned from 32 to 64-bit so it could very well be
> broken.
>
> If you can establish whether that flag is unset on your controller,
> we could use that as a heuristic for configuring DMA.
>
> --
> Martin K. Petersen Oracle Linux Engineering
