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SubjectRe: [PATCH] atl1: disable 64bit DMA
Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Jay Cliburn wrote:
>> On Mon, 25 Jun 2007 17:57:20 -0400
>> Chris Snook <csnook@redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Jay L. T. Cornwall wrote:
>>>> Chris Snook wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> What boards have we seen this on? It's quite possible this is:
>>>> I can reproduce on an Asus P5K with a Core 2 Duo E6600.
>>>>
>>>> lspci identifies the controller as:
>>>> 02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Attansic Technology Corp. L1 Gigabit
>>>> Ethernet Adapter (rev b0)
>>>>
>>>> dmesg notes the PCI-DMA mapping implementation:
>>>> PCI-DMA: Using software bounce buffering for IO (SWIOTLB)
>>>>
>>> I had a hunch this was on Intel. I'd rather just disable this when
>>> swiotlb is in use, unless we get more complaints. It's probably
>>> ultimately a BIOS quirk anyway.
>>
>> So far we have reports from both camps:
>>
>> Asus M2N8-VMX (AM2): 1 report of lockup
>> http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=46780384.063603.26165%40m12-15.163.com&forum_name=atl1-devel
>>
>>
>> Asus P5K (LGA775): 2 reports of lockups
>> http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=467E7E34.4010603%40gmail.com&forum_name=atl1-devel
>>
>> http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/6/25/107
>>
>> The common denominator in these reports is 4GB RAM.
>
> Although its possible this device doesn't really support 64-bit, it's
> more likely that this is a platform problem of some sort, or a driver
> bug of some sort. In the driver, maybe it has a problem when you
> -cross- a 4GB boundary, which is not uncommon.
>
> Jeff

I'm going on the record to say I don't trust the chipsets on these boards, and
I'd like anyone having these problems to let us
(atl1-devel@lists.sourceforge.net) know if they encounter similar problems with
any other hardware. That said, I'm not going to stand in the way of stability
just because it *might* be someone else's fault. I don't think limiting
ourselves to dma32, at least while we track this down, is much of a loss on
current hardware.

Acked-By: Chris Snook <csnook@redhat.com>
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