> Yes - IOMMU support owns that. Anything allocated/mapped with > pci_alloc_consistent() needs to have both read and write permissions > for both Host and PCI target. This definitely not a device driver > problem. Just need to verify the access was to that range. > I've lost track of the original address that was the problem. It was 0xfffc2000, which is in the range allocated (alloc_dma) >>> I'd be looking for why the ioc number changed. It should be resuming >> with the same instance number since it's the same physical device. Yes , that's what I though as well. I tried to trace the expected call sequence , it seems like pci resources are correctly unassigned. The folling sequence is executed on removal: pci_remove_bus_device pci_stop_dev MPT:detach pci_destroy_devs pci_free_resources I figured out that the ioc 'id' is not decremented in mpt_detach() and that it's used for some kind of reverse lookup by mptsas.c and by mpt_verify_adapter(), mostly used for mptclt. But it appears to be almost only cosmetical... ... On the IOMMU side, I see that it sets mapping (CONTEXT_TT_MULTI_LEVEL)) for the SAS controller. #ipmitool picmg policy set 2 1 0 deb64:~# pciehp 0000:00:04.0:pcie04: Card present on Slot(52) pciehp 0000:00:04.0:pcie04: Latch close on Slot(52) pciehp 0000:00:04.0:pcie04: Button pressed on Slot(52) pciehp 0000:00:04.0:pcie04: PCI slot #52 - powering on due to button press. Fusion MPT base driver 3.04.12 Copyright (c) 1999-2008 LSI Corporation Fusion MPT SAS Host driver 3.04.12 mptsas 0000:06:00.0: enabling device (0000 -> 0002) mptsas 0000:06:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16 mptbase: ioc0: Initiating bringup ioc0: LSISAS1064E B3: Capabilities={Initiator} IOMMU: get valid domain for 0000:06:00.0 IOMMU: mapping 0000:06:00.0 IOMMU: lsi 06:00.0 IOMMU: continue mapping for 06:00.0 IOMMU: mapping for 06:00.0 completed IOMMU: mapping no upstream 0000:06:00.0 scsi7 : ioc0: LSISAS1064E B3, FwRev=011b0000h, Ports=1, MaxQ=277, IRQ=16 ... I looked at the driver correctness for alloc/free of dma memory, and it seems the play by the book as long as the DMA goes. With some extra debugging I get: ptbase: ioc0: ChainBuffer sz=128 bytes, ChainDepth=1143 mptbase: ioc0: ChainBuffer sz=146304[23b80] bytes num_chain=1143 IOMMU:alloc coherent IOMMU:succeeded 000000003bc00000(ffff88003bc00000) 192512 ffffffff mptbase: ioc0: Total alloc @ ffff88003bc00000[00000000fffc0000], sz=192000[2ee00] bytes mptbase: ioc0: ReplyBuffers @ ffff88003bc00000[00000000fffc0000] mptbase: ioc0: RequestBuffers @ ffff88003bc02800[00000000fffc2800] mptbase: ioc0: ChainBuffers @ ffff88003bc0b280(00000000fffcb280) IOMMU:alloc coherent IOMMU:succeeded 000000003d1f8000(ffff88003d1f8000) 20480 ffffffff mptbase: ioc0: SenseBuffers @ ffff88003d1f8000[00000000fffb8000] mptbase: ioc0: ReplyBuffers @ ffff88003bc00000[00000000fffc0000] mptbase: ioc0: SendIocInit mptbase: ioc0: facts.MsgVersion=105 mptbase: ioc0: Sending Port(0)Enable (req @ ffff88003da6da98) mptbase: ioc0: Wait IOC_OPERATIONAL state (cnt=0) The DMA memory is freed on removal: mptbase: ioc0: free @ ffff88003bc00000, sz=192000 bytes IOMMU:free coherent IOMMU:free coherent mptsas 0000:06:00.0: PCI INT A disabled However, I see the 'free' called at mptbase.c:4596 uses the allocated size (192000) rather than the page padded size(192512) really allocated by the IOMMU engine, but I doubt it could be the cause for this problem. ... So I'm starting to think the IOMMU driver messes up the mapping tables in some way on deallocation/reallocation operations. I must admist I don't fully understand the impact of this change: http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/git-commits-head/2009/7/3/6134073 But seeing these lines - dma_set_pte_readable(pte); - dma_set_pte_writable(pte); I can't believe it's not related to this message: DMAR:[DMA Read] Request device [06:00.0] fault addr fffc3000 DMAR:[fault reason 06] PTE Read access is not set ... this still needs some investigation. Thank you François Isabelle | Software Designer | Kontron Canada | T 450 437 5682 |F 450 437 8053 | E francois.isabelle@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- To unsubscribe from this list: 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