Re: 3.1-rc4: spectacular kernel errors / filesystem crash

From: Justin Piszcz
Date: Tue Sep 13 2011 - 11:42:41 EST




On Tue, 13 Sep 2011, Jon Mason wrote:

On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 9:54 AM, Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


On Tue, 13 Sep 2011, Eric Dumazet wrote:

Please Justin make sure you pulled commit
commit ed2888e906b56769b4ffabb9c577190438aa68b8
Author: Jon Mason <mason@xxxxxxxx>
Date:   Thu Sep 8 16:41:18 2011 -0500

  PCI: Remove MRRS modification from MPS setting code

  Modifying the Maximum Read Request Size to 0 (value of 128Bytes) has
  massive negative ramifications on some devices.  Without knowing which
  devices have this issue, do not modify from the default value when
  walking the PCI-E bus in pcie_bus_safe mode.  Also, make pcie_bus_safe
  the default procedure.

  Tested-by: Sven Schnelle <svens@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  Tested-by: Simon Kirby <sim@xxxxxxxxxx>
  Tested-by: Stephen M. Cameron <scameron@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  Reported-and-tested-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@xxxxxxxxx>
  Reported-and-tested-by: Niels Ole Salscheider
<niels_ole@salscheider-online.
  References: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42162
  Signed-off-by: Jon Mason <mason@xxxxxxxx>
  Acked-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Hello,

I found this commit here:
http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.pci/11700

This is an early version of the patch. This is the patch that you want:
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/ed2888e906b56769b4ffabb9c577190438aa68b8

It appears that this patch didn't make it to lkml or linux-pci list
due to kernel.org DNS being down when it was sent.

Thanks,
Jon

I need to learn how to use git at some point, can you please provide plain
text patches so I can apply them and reboot?

Justin.