On Saturday 20 January 2007 19:59, Robert Hancock wrote: > Ian Kumlien wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I went from 2.6.19+sata_nv-adma-ncq-v7.patch, with no problems and adama > > enabled, to 2.6.20-rc5, which gave me problems almost instantly. > > > > I just thought that it might be interesting to know that it DID work > > nicely. > > > > CC since i'm not on the ml > > (I'm ccing more of the people who reported this) > > Well that's interesting.. The only significant change that went into > 2.6.20-rc5 in that driver that wasn't in that version you mentioned was > this one: > > http://www2.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=com >mit;h=2dec7555e6bf2772749113ea0ad454fcdb8cf861 > > Could you (or anyone else) test what happens if you take the 2.6.20-rc5 > version of sata_nv.c and try it on 2.6.19? That would tell us whether > it's this change or whether it's something else (i.e. in libata core).
I'm still running an -rc5 kernel with ADMA switched off entirely and I can't reproduce the problem. How is everybody else reproducing this? I've been successful installing bonnie++, then going to a large XFS partition and running "bonnie++ -u 1000:1000" and letting it run through, all defaults. It doesn't cause the problem I was seeing in -rc5 with ADMA on, when I switch ADMA off, so I think this is sufficient to fix it. Others have reported differently. Did you guys do: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cat /proc/cmdline root=/dev/sda1 ro sata_nv.adma=0 Or something similar? This is how Jeff suggested disabling ADMA and indeed the messages about its use disappear from dmesg. -- Cheers, Alistair. Final year Computer Science undergraduate. 1F2 55 South Clerk Street, Edinburgh, UK. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
