As reported in http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9133 it was discovered that the PERC line of controllers lacked a key 64 bit ScatterGather capable SCSI pass-through function. The adapters are still capable of 64 bit ScatterGather I/O commands, but these two can not be mixed. This problem was exacerbated by the introduction of the SCSI Generic access to the DASD physical devices. The fix for users before this patch is applied is aacraid.dacmode=0 on the kernel command line to disable 64 bit I/O. The enclosed patch introduces a new adapter quirk and tries to limp along by enabling pass-through in situations where memory is 32 bit addressable on 64 bit machines, or disable the pass-through functions altogether. I expect that the check for 32 bit addressable memory to be controversial in that it can be incorrect in non-Dell non-Intel systems that PERC would never be installed under, the alternative is to disable pass-through in all cases which could be reported as another regression. Pass-through is used for SCSI Generic access to the physical devices, or for the management applications to properly function. In systems where this patch has disabled pass-through because it is unsupportable in combination with I/O performance, the user can choose to enable pass-through by turning off dacmode (aacraid.dacmode=0) or limiting the discovered kernel memory (mem=4G) with an associated loss in runtime performance. If we chose instead to turn off 64 bit dacmode for the adapters with this quirk, then this would be reported as another regression. This attached patch is against current scsi-misc-2.6. ObligatoryDisclaimer: Please accept my condolences regarding Outlook's handling of patch attachments. Signed-off-by: Mark Salyzyn <aacraid@xxxxxxxxxxx> drivers/scsi/aacraid/aachba.c | 15 +++++++++++++- drivers/scsi/aacraid/aacraid.h | 6 +++++ drivers/scsi/aacraid/commsup.c | 6 ++--- drivers/scsi/aacraid/linit.c | 42 +++++++++++++++++++++++------------------ 4 files changed, 47 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-) Sincerely -- Mark Salyzyn
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