The patch titled cciss: disable DMA prefetch on P600 has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is cciss-disable-dma-prefetch-on-p600.patch See http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: cciss: disable DMA prefetch on P600 From: Mike Miller <mike.miller@xxxxxx> Unconditionally disable DMA prefetch on the P600 controller. An ASIC bug may result in prefetching beyond the end of physical memory. Signed-off-by: Mike Miller <mike.miller@xxxxxx> Acked-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx> --- drivers/block/cciss.c | 11 +++++++++++ drivers/block/cciss_cmd.h | 1 + 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+) diff -puN drivers/block/cciss.c~cciss-disable-dma-prefetch-on-p600 drivers/block/cciss.c --- a/drivers/block/cciss.c~cciss-disable-dma-prefetch-on-p600 +++ a/drivers/block/cciss.c @@ -2997,6 +2997,17 @@ static int cciss_pci_init(ctlr_info_t *c } #endif + /* Disabling DMA prefetch for the P600 + * An ASIC bug may result in a prefetch beyond + * physical memory. + */ + if(board_id == 0x3225103C) { + __u32 dma_prefetch; + dma_prefetch = readl(c->vaddr + I2O_DMA1_CFG); + dma_prefetch |= 0x8000; + writel(dma_prefetch, c->vaddr + I2O_DMA1_CFG); + } + #ifdef CCISS_DEBUG printk("Trying to put board into Simple mode\n"); #endif /* CCISS_DEBUG */ diff -puN drivers/block/cciss_cmd.h~cciss-disable-dma-prefetch-on-p600 drivers/block/cciss_cmd.h --- a/drivers/block/cciss_cmd.h~cciss-disable-dma-prefetch-on-p600 +++ a/drivers/block/cciss_cmd.h @@ -55,6 +55,7 @@ #define I2O_INT_MASK 0x34 #define I2O_IBPOST_Q 0x40 #define I2O_OBPOST_Q 0x44 +#define I2O_DMA1_CFG 0x214 //Configuration Table #define CFGTBL_ChangeReq 0x00000001l _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from mike.miller@xxxxxx are cciss-version-change.patch cciss-reference-driver-support.patch cciss-increase-number-of-commands-on-controller.patch cciss-fix-pci-ssid-for-the-e500-controller.patch cciss-disable-dma-prefetch-on-p600.patch cciss-set-sector_size-to-2048-for-performance.patch cciss-set-sector_size-to-2048-for-performance-tidy.patch cciss-change-cciss_open-for-consistency.patch cciss-remove-unused-revalidate_allvol-function.patch cciss-add-support-for-1024-logical-volumes.patch cciss-cleanup-cciss_interrupt-mode.patch - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html