Re: [regression]2.6.25-rc4: boot panic on alpha

From: Bob Tracy
Date: Fri Mar 07 2008 - 14:06:17 EST


Ivan Kokshaysky wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 07, 2008 at 11:56:40PM +0900, FUJITA Tomonori wrote:
> > Very sorry, I probably broke the IOMMU. I don't have the hardware so
> > I've not tested the patches.
>
> Unfortunately, I was not able to test these patches either, as my
> alpha with iommmu and scsi is disassembled at the moment, thanks to
> dead CPU fan...
>
> (...)
>
> Perhaps it was that, if the scsi driver set max_seg_size to something
> other than default 65536 (and not a power of two)...
>
> Bob, can you give it a try?
>
> diff --git a/arch/alpha/kernel/pci_iommu.c b/arch/alpha/kernel/pci_iommu.c
> index be6fa10..e07a23f 100644
> --- a/arch/alpha/kernel/pci_iommu.c
> +++ b/arch/alpha/kernel/pci_iommu.c
> (...)

In the interest of efficiency, I'll try Ivan's patch against -rc4 before
I do anything else (although I *do* have my git tree updated and ready
for abuse if it comes to that :-)). New kernel is building: I'll be able
to test it in about five hours (when I can get back to where the machine
is).

As usual, thanks to everyone for the quick responses.

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