Re: data corruption with nvidia chipsets and IDE/SATA drives //memory hole mapping related bug?!

[Karsten Weiss]

On Wed, 13 Dec 2006, Erik Andersen wrote:

> On Mon Dec 11, 2006 at 10:24:02AM +0100, Karsten Weiss wrote:
> > Last week we did some more testing with the following result:
> > 
> > We could not reproduce the data corruption anymore if we boot the machines 
> > with the kernel parameter "iommu=soft" i.e. if we use software bounce 
> > buffering instead of the hw-iommu. (As mentioned before, booting with 
> > mem=2g works fine, too, because this disables the iommu altogether.)
> > 
> > I.e. on these systems the data corruption only happens if the hw-iommu 
> > (PCI-GART) of the Opteron CPUs is in use.
> > 
> > Christoph, Erik, Chris: I would appreciate if you would test and hopefully 
> > confirm this workaround, too.
> 
> What did you set the BIOS to when testing this setting?
> Memory Hole enabled?  IOMMU enabled?

"Memory hole mapping" was set to "hardware". With "disabled" we only
see 3 of our 4 GB memory.

Best regards,
Karsten

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