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Re: [suse-amd64] -171 iommu corruption reintroduced?
- From: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 20:37:12 +0000 (UTC)
- Message-id: <20040115213711.64131f3b.ak@xxxxxxx>
On Thu, 15 Jan 2004 12:16:03 -0800
John McCorquodale <mcq1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I just grabbed -171 and gave it a whirl on my S2885. It seems to reintroduce
> the IOMMU optimization that was problematic on 3ware and QLogic cards a
> while back and fixed in -156 (all trace of the changes to kernel/pci-gart.c
> relating to the 'nofullflush' option have disappeared). Booting -171 sees
> all sorts of DMA corruption doing things like paging in libc, then it eats
> my / as soon as it writes the superblock out (wrong). Fun!
>
> Am I mistaken, or is there something more recent/better than -171 floating
> around out there?
The latest released 9.0 kernel is -178 (including security updates, so you should
definitely update). It has the workaround enabled by default.
It also has updated SATA support.
-Andi
John McCorquodale <mcq1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I just grabbed -171 and gave it a whirl on my S2885. It seems to reintroduce
> the IOMMU optimization that was problematic on 3ware and QLogic cards a
> while back and fixed in -156 (all trace of the changes to kernel/pci-gart.c
> relating to the 'nofullflush' option have disappeared). Booting -171 sees
> all sorts of DMA corruption doing things like paging in libc, then it eats
> my / as soon as it writes the superblock out (wrong). Fun!
>
> Am I mistaken, or is there something more recent/better than -171 floating
> around out there?
The latest released 9.0 kernel is -178 (including security updates, so you should
definitely update). It has the workaround enabled by default.
It also has updated SATA support.
-Andi
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