4.9.130: CPU soft lockups and other weird memory errors

2019-04-09 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Hey. Perhaps anyone can help with the following, which is a problem at a mass storage system cluster at the physics faculty here: The cluster consists of 40 nodes all running Debian stable with a 4.9.130 kernel serving some ~3 PiB storage via 10GbE networking. Part of the nodes are some Dell

sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Unaligned partial completion (resid=12, sector_sz=512)

2018-06-09 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Hey. I'm seeing these errors: Jun 09 21:13:22 heisenberg kernel: sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Unaligned partial completion (resid=16, sector_sz=512) Jun 09 21:13:22 heisenberg kernel: sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] tag#0 FAILED Result: hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE Jun 09 21:13:22 heisenberg kernel: sd

sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Unaligned partial completion (resid=12, sector_sz=512)

2018-06-09 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Hey. I'm seeing these errors: Jun 09 21:13:22 heisenberg kernel: sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Unaligned partial completion (resid=16, sector_sz=512) Jun 09 21:13:22 heisenberg kernel: sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] tag#0 FAILED Result: hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE Jun 09 21:13:22 heisenberg kernel: sd

"Core temperature above threshold" on Fujitsu U757 with 2 core Kaby Lake (i7-7600U)

2017-10-27 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Hey. Perhaps someone can help me with this. I got a brand new notebook from the university, a Fujitsu U757[0][1], with a 2 core Kaby Lake (i7-7600U) and 32GB RAM. It runs Debian unstable, that is as of now kernel 4.13.4. Even at pretty simple tasks (just some VM running) and a bit more, the

"Core temperature above threshold" on Fujitsu U757 with 2 core Kaby Lake (i7-7600U)

2017-10-27 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Hey. Perhaps someone can help me with this. I got a brand new notebook from the university, a Fujitsu U757[0][1], with a 2 core Kaby Lake (i7-7600U) and 32GB RAM. It runs Debian unstable, that is as of now kernel 4.13.4. Even at pretty simple tasks (just some VM running) and a bit more, the

USB ExpressCard makes kworker process utilise 72% CPU infinitely

2015-11-21 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Hey. I bough a USB3.0 ExpressCard from StarTech[0] which is apparently[1] based on the NEC uPD720200. Using a kernel 4.2.6 on amd64, the System is Debian sid, the following happens when I plug the card: kernel logs show: Nov 21 17:15:22 heisenberg kernel: [  102.387452] pci :01:00.0:

USB ExpressCard makes kworker process utilise 72% CPU infinitely

2015-11-21 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Hey. I bough a USB3.0 ExpressCard from StarTech[0] which is apparently[1] based on the NEC uPD720200. Using a kernel 4.2.6 on amd64, the System is Debian sid, the following happens when I plug the card: kernel logs show: Nov 21 17:15:22 heisenberg kernel: [  102.387452] pci :01:00.0:

Re: support for Intel Atom based QNAP LEDs/buttons/buzzer in Linux?

2013-10-13 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Hi Greg, Guenter and Chris. Coming back to the stuff discussed previously[0]. Chris Eastwood has made most of these (i.e. LEDs and buttons, the buzzers may work on at least some of the devices via some other serial device) working (AFAIU based on the previously mentioned code at Github[1]), he

Re: support for Intel Atom based QNAP LEDs/buttons/buzzer in Linux?

2013-10-13 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Hi Greg, Guenter and Chris. Coming back to the stuff discussed previously[0]. Chris Eastwood has made most of these (i.e. LEDs and buttons, the buzzers may work on at least some of the devices via some other serial device) working (AFAIU based on the previously mentioned code at Github[1]), he

Re: support for Intel Atom based QNAP LEDs/buttons/buzzer in Linux?

2013-06-20 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Oh and one more thing: The QNAP driver seems to be able to do much more than just LEDs/HDD-LEDs/buzzers/buttons... at least their symbols imply such, like: #define QNAP_IOCTL_SATA_UP 0x0100 #define QNAP_IOCTL_SATA_DOWN0x0200 #define QNAP_IOCTL_ESATA_UP 0x0300 #define

Re: support for Intel Atom based QNAP LEDs/buttons/buzzer in Linux?

2013-06-20 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
On Thu, 2013-06-20 at 14:42 -0700, Greg KH wrote: > Also, do you have a pointer to the git tree for > the hardware again, I can't seem to find it. You mean a git repo for their driver? I don't think they have one... just the big tarball with the patches integrated... > I can dig through the

Re: support for Intel Atom based QNAP LEDs/buttons/buzzer in Linux?

2013-06-20 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Hey Greg. On Wed, 2013-06-19 at 19:59 -0700, Greg KH wrote: > If you can dig the code out into a stand-alone form that I can make into > a patch for the drivers/staging/ tree, I'll be glad to take it. Well I don't think my kernel/hardware development skills are enough for that... especially as

Re: support for Intel Atom based QNAP LEDs/buttons/buzzer in Linux?

2013-06-20 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Hey Greg. On Wed, 2013-06-19 at 19:59 -0700, Greg KH wrote: If you can dig the code out into a stand-alone form that I can make into a patch for the drivers/staging/ tree, I'll be glad to take it. Well I don't think my kernel/hardware development skills are enough for that... especially as

Re: support for Intel Atom based QNAP LEDs/buttons/buzzer in Linux?

2013-06-20 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
On Thu, 2013-06-20 at 14:42 -0700, Greg KH wrote: Also, do you have a pointer to the git tree for the hardware again, I can't seem to find it. You mean a git repo for their driver? I don't think they have one... just the big tarball with the patches integrated... I can dig through the tree

Re: support for Intel Atom based QNAP LEDs/buttons/buzzer in Linux?

2013-06-20 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Oh and one more thing: The QNAP driver seems to be able to do much more than just LEDs/HDD-LEDs/buzzers/buttons... at least their symbols imply such, like: #define QNAP_IOCTL_SATA_UP 0x0100 #define QNAP_IOCTL_SATA_DOWN0x0200 #define QNAP_IOCTL_ESATA_UP 0x0300 #define

Re: support for Intel Atom based QNAP LEDs/buttons/buzzer in Linux?

2013-06-19 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
On Sat, 2013-06-15 at 03:31 +0200, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: > I wondered whether anyone knows, whether the kernel supports the > LEDs/buttons/buzzer of Intel Atom based QNAP NAS like the TS-569 Pro? I tried to find out some more information (and got some help there as well)... see

Re: support for Intel Atom based QNAP LEDs/buttons/buzzer in Linux?

2013-06-19 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
On Sat, 2013-06-15 at 03:31 +0200, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: I wondered whether anyone knows, whether the kernel supports the LEDs/buttons/buzzer of Intel Atom based QNAP NAS like the TS-569 Pro? I tried to find out some more information (and got some help there as well)... seems I'm

support for Intel Atom based QNAP LEDs/buttons/buzzer in Linux?

2013-06-14 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Hi. I wondered whether anyone knows, whether the kernel supports the LEDs/buttons/buzzer of Intel Atom based QNAP NAS like the TS-569 Pro? I got the two line LCD, which is a A125, working,...it can easily be controlled via the serial device... but not the others. Seems these are GPIO

support for Intel Atom based QNAP LEDs/buttons/buzzer in Linux?

2013-06-14 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Hi. I wondered whether anyone knows, whether the kernel supports the LEDs/buttons/buzzer of Intel Atom based QNAP NAS like the TS-569 Pro? I got the two line LCD, which is a A125, working,...it can easily be controlled via the serial device... but not the others. Seems these are GPIO

Re: RNG: is it possible to spoil /dev/random by seeding it from (evil) TRNGs

2012-10-09 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
On Sun, 2012-10-07 at 21:24 -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > I've looked at his message, I didn't see any justification for his > concern/assertion. So I can't really comment on it since he didn't > give any reason for his belief. I asked him again[0] to be sure and he replied to have no reason to

Re: RNG: is it possible to spoil /dev/random by seeding it from (evil) TRNGs

2012-10-09 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
On Sun, 2012-10-07 at 21:24 -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote: I've looked at his message, I didn't see any justification for his concern/assertion. So I can't really comment on it since he didn't give any reason for his belief. I asked him again[0] to be sure and he replied to have no reason to

Re: RNG: is it possible to spoil /dev/random by seeding it from (evil) TRNGs

2012-10-07 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Hi Ted. Thanks for your prompt reply. On Thu, 2012-10-04 at 18:49 -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > It is impossible by design. Or specifically, /dev/random was designed > so that it can be world-writeable, and an attacker can feed in any > kind of input he or she wants, and it will not allow the

Re: RNG: is it possible to spoil /dev/random by seeding it from (evil) TRNGs

2012-10-07 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Hi Ted. Thanks for your prompt reply. On Thu, 2012-10-04 at 18:49 -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote: It is impossible by design. Or specifically, /dev/random was designed so that it can be world-writeable, and an attacker can feed in any kind of input he or she wants, and it will not allow the

RNG: is it possible to spoil /dev/random by seeding it from (evil) TRNGs

2012-10-04 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Hi. This is a question towards the crypto/entropy experts. When seeding the kernels entropy cache (which is then ultimately used for /dev/random), e.g. by (semi-)TRNGs like haveged[0], audio-entropyd[1], Simtec’s Entropy Key[2] or friends... can one spoil the randomness by that or is this

RNG: is it possible to spoil /dev/random by seeding it from (evil) TRNGs

2012-10-04 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Hi. This is a question towards the crypto/entropy experts. When seeding the kernels entropy cache (which is then ultimately used for /dev/random), e.g. by (semi-)TRNGs like haveged[0], audio-entropyd[1], Simtec’s Entropy Key[2] or friends... can one spoil the randomness by that or is this

Re: data corruption with dmcrypt/LUKS

2008-02-15 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Hi Filippo. On Wed, 2008-02-13 at 22:39 +0100, Filippo Zangheri wrote: > have you conducted further tests? Have you discovered anything? I actually conducted some tests last week (also with aes-cbc-essiv) but wasn't able to reproduce the two errors (tested it on the same computer, with the same

Re: data corruption with dmcrypt/LUKS

2008-02-15 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Hi Filippo. On Wed, 2008-02-13 at 22:39 +0100, Filippo Zangheri wrote: have you conducted further tests? Have you discovered anything? I actually conducted some tests last week (also with aes-cbc-essiv) but wasn't able to reproduce the two errors (tested it on the same computer, with the same

Re: kernel support for newer UDF versions (> 2.01)

2008-02-06 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Hi. On Wed, 2008-02-06 at 17:36 +0100, Jan Kara wrote: > I think there's a patch for 2.50 support which is quite recent (2.6.24). > I plan to merge the support when Sebastian submits it (I'm already in > contact with him regarding this). Ah great, so 2.6.25 probably?! Best wishes, Chris. -- To

Re: kernel support for newer UDF versions ( 2.01)

2008-02-06 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Hi. On Wed, 2008-02-06 at 17:36 +0100, Jan Kara wrote: I think there's a patch for 2.50 support which is quite recent (2.6.24). I plan to merge the support when Sebastian submits it (I'm already in contact with him regarding this). Ah great, so 2.6.25 probably?! Best wishes, Chris. -- To

Re: data corruption with dmcrypt/LUKS

2008-02-04 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
On Mon, 2008-02-04 at 10:17 +0100, Milan Broz wrote: > Yes, so if you hit this with 2.6.24 too is very important to sent OOps > log to identify problem (or link to screen snapshot, digital camera > snapshot or so). I did about 5 complete tests today and dozens of mkfs.ext3's but I wasn't able to

Re: data corruption with dmcrypt/LUKS

2008-02-04 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
On Mon, 2008-02-04 at 10:17 +0100, Milan Broz wrote: Yes, so if you hit this with 2.6.24 too is very important to sent OOps log to identify problem (or link to screen snapshot, digital camera snapshot or so). I did about 5 complete tests today and dozens of mkfs.ext3's but I wasn't able to

Re: data corruption with dmcrypt/LUKS

2008-02-03 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Hi Milan Broz On Sun, 2008-02-03 at 23:06 +0100, Milan Broz wrote: > Are you sure, that your USB-stick is not faulty ? I actually tested the stick, too. But I consider problems in the stick (you mean the key-holding stick, do you?) as highly unlikely. If the key would be wrong a good crypto

data corruption with dmcrypt/LUKS

2008-02-03 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Hi. I think I've found a bug somewhere in dm-crypt... First of all the system that I use: Debian (sid) with kernel 2.26.24 on AMD64 (intel core2 duo), 2GB RAM For several days now I try to fully encrypt that system (that is, all partitions are encrypted an I boot from an USB stick) There are

data corruption with dmcrypt/LUKS

2008-02-03 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Hi. I think I've found a bug somewhere in dm-crypt... First of all the system that I use: Debian (sid) with kernel 2.26.24 on AMD64 (intel core2 duo), 2GB RAM For several days now I try to fully encrypt that system (that is, all partitions are encrypted an I boot from an USB stick) There are

Re: data corruption with dmcrypt/LUKS

2008-02-03 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Hi Milan Broz On Sun, 2008-02-03 at 23:06 +0100, Milan Broz wrote: Are you sure, that your USB-stick is not faulty ? I actually tested the stick, too. But I consider problems in the stick (you mean the key-holding stick, do you?) as highly unlikely. If the key would be wrong a good crypto

kernel support for newer UDF versions (> 2.01)

2008-02-02 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Hi everybody. Does someone know if it's planned (or even in the works) to support newer versions of the UDF filesystem? Especially the versions 2.50 and 2.60 would be very interesting for mounting BluRay discs (and HD DVD)... I've seen somewhere a patch but that was pretty old and AFAIK not yet

kernel support for newer UDF versions ( 2.01)

2008-02-02 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Hi everybody. Does someone know if it's planned (or even in the works) to support newer versions of the UDF filesystem? Especially the versions 2.50 and 2.60 would be very interesting for mounting BluRay discs (and HD DVD)... I've seen somewhere a patch but that was pretty old and AFAIK not yet

Re: Blu Ray LG GGW-H20L crashes Linux

2008-01-28 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
On Mon, 2008-01-28 at 17:47 -0600, Robert Hancock wrote: > Nope, I/we are still trying to figure out how to fix this properly.. I see :-) Uhm is there a bugreport opened, so that I can trace your efforts? Or would you be so kind to inform me when you have a patch an Linus accepted it? :-) btw:

Re: Blu Ray LG GGW-H20L crashes Linux

2008-01-28 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
On Mon, 2008-01-28 at 17:38 -0600, Robert Hancock wrote: > Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: > > btw: I'm cross posting this to lkml and debian-user,... hope nobody > > feels offended :-) > > How much RAM is in your machine? There's a known problem with sata_nv > ADMA wit

Blu Ray LG GGW-H20L crashes Linux

2008-01-28 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Hi everybody. I've just bought and installed a LG GGW-H20L Blu-Ray burner,... This is an SATA device, I'm running a 2.6.23.10 kernel (not the Debian version) on Debian sid (AMD64) and I use the proprietary nvidia drivers (169.07). The system is an Dual (!) DualCore AMD Opteron machine. (Please

Blu Ray LG GGW-H20L crashes Linux

2008-01-28 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Hi everybody. I've just bought and installed a LG GGW-H20L Blu-Ray burner,... This is an SATA device, I'm running a 2.6.23.10 kernel (not the Debian version) on Debian sid (AMD64) and I use the proprietary nvidia drivers (169.07). The system is an Dual (!) DualCore AMD Opteron machine. (Please

Re: Blu Ray LG GGW-H20L crashes Linux

2008-01-28 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
On Mon, 2008-01-28 at 17:38 -0600, Robert Hancock wrote: Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: btw: I'm cross posting this to lkml and debian-user,... hope nobody feels offended :-) How much RAM is in your machine? There's a known problem with sata_nv ADMA with ATAPI devices and over 4GB

Re: Blu Ray LG GGW-H20L crashes Linux

2008-01-28 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
On Mon, 2008-01-28 at 17:47 -0600, Robert Hancock wrote: Nope, I/we are still trying to figure out how to fix this properly.. I see :-) Uhm is there a bugreport opened, so that I can trace your efforts? Or would you be so kind to inform me when you have a patch an Linus accepted it? :-) btw:

kexec, initramdisk and dmcrypt questions

2008-01-17 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Hi. I'd like to setup a system where all partitions (including the root file system) are encrypted using dmcrypt. Of course I need some place where I can boot from, and I intended to use an USB-stick for that purpose. Now I think there are (at least) the following two ways of doing this: 1)

kexec, initramdisk and dmcrypt questions

2008-01-17 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Hi. I'd like to setup a system where all partitions (including the root file system) are encrypted using dmcrypt. Of course I need some place where I can boot from, and I intended to use an USB-stick for that purpose. Now I think there are (at least) the following two ways of doing this: 1)

Re: Strange ATA problems

2007-12-14 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
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Re: Strange ATA problems

2007-12-14 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Hi Alan. On Fri, 2007-12-14 at 22:24 +, Alan Cox wrote: > Can you reproduce this without the Nvidia stuff ? No,.. I'm running for about 2 years now with propreitary nvidia gpu module,.. but I've never encountered that problem before. Anyway,... I might have just missed it... Ah and by the

Re: Strange ATA problems

2007-12-14 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Hi Tejun. On Sat, 2007-12-15 at 00:16 +0900, Tejun Heo wrote: > Do you have log with timestamp? It's difficult to tell what's going on > without knowing what happened when. Ah sorry,... I've completely missed that... perhaps those two problems were not related (at least there's so much time

Re: Strange ATA problems

2007-12-14 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Hi Tejun. On Sat, 2007-12-15 at 00:16 +0900, Tejun Heo wrote: Do you have log with timestamp? It's difficult to tell what's going on without knowing what happened when. Ah sorry,... I've completely missed that... perhaps those two problems were not related (at least there's so much time

Re: Strange ATA problems

2007-12-14 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Hi Alan. On Fri, 2007-12-14 at 22:24 +, Alan Cox wrote: Can you reproduce this without the Nvidia stuff ? No,.. I'm running for about 2 years now with propreitary nvidia gpu module,.. but I've never encountered that problem before. Anyway,... I might have just missed it... Ah and by the

Re: Strange ATA problems

2007-12-14 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
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Strange ATA problems

2007-12-13 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA ata1/sda is my harddisk (at least one of them) What do does errors mean? Is this probably a hardware failure? And how can the CD/DVD problem relate to this? Any ideas? Thanks and best wishes, Christoph Anton Mitterer. total demsg: us

Strange ATA problems

2007-12-13 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA ata1/sda is my harddisk (at least one of them) What do does errors mean? Is this probably a hardware failure? And how can the CD/DVD problem relate to this? Any ideas? Thanks and best wishes, Christoph Anton Mitterer. total demsg: usb-dib0700

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

2007-03-22 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Hi folks. 1) Are there any new developments in this issue? Does someone know if AMD and Nvidia is still investigating? 2) Steve Langasek from Debian sent me a patch that disables the hw-iommu per default on Nvidia boards. I've attached it in the kernel bugzilla and asked for inclusion in the

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

2007-03-22 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Hi folks. 1) Are there any new developments in this issue? Does someone know if AMD and Nvidia is still investigating? 2) Steve Langasek from Debian sent me a patch that disables the hw-iommu per default on Nvidia boards. I've attached it in the kernel bugzilla and asked for inclusion in the

Re: Strange

2007-01-24 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Alistair John Strachan wrote: >> I knew of course about libdvdcss but I've never noticed before that the >> kernel issues these error messages to the syslog. >> > If you've replaced the drive, the decss keys might have changed for inserted > media (this is especially true if your old drive

Re: Strange

2007-01-24 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Alan wrote: >> I knew of course about libdvdcss but I've never noticed before that the >> kernel issues these error messages to the syslog. >> > Various bits of random desktop junk poll drives to see what has appeared > and stick icons on desktops. Some of them do stuff that produces messages

Re: Strange

2007-01-24 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Alan wrote: I knew of course about libdvdcss but I've never noticed before that the kernel issues these error messages to the syslog. Various bits of random desktop junk poll drives to see what has appeared and stick icons on desktops. Some of them do stuff that produces messages like

Re: Strange

2007-01-24 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Alistair John Strachan wrote: I knew of course about libdvdcss but I've never noticed before that the kernel issues these error messages to the syslog. If you've replaced the drive, the decss keys might have changed for inserted media (this is especially true if your old drive had a

Re: Strange

2007-01-23 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Alan wrote: >> kernel: Error: Illegal request -- (Sense key=0x05) >> kernel: Read of scrambled sector without authentication -- (asc=0x6f, >> ascq=0x03) >> > > The disc is using digital rights management. If you are in a country that > permits it you can use a dvd reader library with

Strange

2007-01-23 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Hi. I'm using a kernel 2.6.18.1 with a Plextor PX-769A CD/DVD drive (using the old IDE drivers)... The drive itself is brand-new. The firmware version is 1.06 (which is the most recent). There are to issues I experience. 1) On some (but not all) DVD-Videos I get the following messages: kernel:

Strange

2007-01-23 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Hi. I'm using a kernel 2.6.18.1 with a Plextor PX-769A CD/DVD drive (using the old IDE drivers)... The drive itself is brand-new. The firmware version is 1.06 (which is the most recent). There are to issues I experience. 1) On some (but not all) DVD-Videos I get the following messages: kernel:

Re: Strange

2007-01-23 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Alan wrote: kernel: Error: Illegal request -- (Sense key=0x05) kernel: Read of scrambled sector without authentication -- (asc=0x6f, ascq=0x03) The disc is using digital rights management. If you are in a country that permits it you can use a dvd reader library with decss support,

Re: data corruption with nvidia chipsets and IDE/SATA drives (k8 cpu errata needed?)

2007-01-18 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Erik Andersen wrote: > I just tried again and while using iommu=soft does avoid the > corruption problem, as with previous kernels with 2.6.20-rc5 > using iommu=soft still makes my pcHDTV HD5500 DVB cards not work. > I still have to disable memhole and lose 1 GB. :-( Please add this to the

Re: data corruption with nvidia chipsets and IDE/SATA drives (k8 cpu errata needed?)

2007-01-18 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
joachim wrote: > Not only has it only been on Nvidia chipsets but we have only seen > reports on the Nvidia CK804 SATA controller. Please write in or add > yourself to the bugzilla entry [1] and tell us which hardware you have > if you get 4kB pagesize corruption and it goes away with

Re: data corruption with nvidia chipsets and IDE/SATA drives (k8 cpu errata needed?)

2007-01-18 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
joachim wrote: Not only has it only been on Nvidia chipsets but we have only seen reports on the Nvidia CK804 SATA controller. Please write in or add yourself to the bugzilla entry [1] and tell us which hardware you have if you get 4kB pagesize corruption and it goes away with iommu=soft. How

Re: data corruption with nvidia chipsets and IDE/SATA drives (k8 cpu errata needed?)

2007-01-18 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Erik Andersen wrote: I just tried again and while using iommu=soft does avoid the corruption problem, as with previous kernels with 2.6.20-rc5 using iommu=soft still makes my pcHDTV HD5500 DVB cards not work. I still have to disable memhole and lose 1 GB. :-( Please add this to the bugreport

Re: data corruption with nvidia chipsets and IDE/SATA drives (k8 cpu errata needed?)

2007-01-16 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Andi Kleen wrote: > AMD is looking at the issue. Only Nvidia chipsets seem to be affected, > although there were similar problems on VIA in the past too. > Unless a good workaround comes around soon I'll probably default > to iommu=soft on Nvidia. I've just read the posts about AMDs and NVIDIAs

Re: data corruption with nvidia chipsets and IDE/SATA drives (k8 cpu errata needed?)

2007-01-16 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Chris Wedgwood wrote: > I'd like to here from Andi how he feels about this? It seems like a > somewhat drastic solution in some ways given a lot of hardware doesn't > seem to be affected (or maybe in those cases it's just really hard to > hit, I don't know). > Yes this might be true,.. those

Re: data corruption with nvidia chipsets and IDE/SATA drives (k8 cpu errata needed?)

2007-01-16 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Arkadiusz Miskiewicz wrote: > FYI it seems that I was also hit by this bug with qlogic fc card + adaptec > taro raid controller on Thunder K8SRE S2891 mainboard with nvidia chipset on > it. > >

Re: data corruption with nvidia chipsets and IDE/SATA drives (k8 cpu errata needed?)

2007-01-16 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Chris Wedgwood wrote: > right now i'm thinking if we can't figure out which cpu/bios > combinations are safe we might almost be better off doing iommu=soft > for *all* k8 stuff except for those that are whitelisted; though this > seems extremely drastic > I agree,... it seems drastic, but this

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

2007-01-16 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Robert Hancock wrote: >> What is that GART thing exactly? Is this the hardware IOMMU? I've always >> thought GART was something graphics card related,.. but if so,.. how >> could this solve our problem (that seems to occur mainly on harddisks)? >> > The GART built into the Athlon 64/Opteron

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

2007-01-16 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Robert Hancock wrote: What is that GART thing exactly? Is this the hardware IOMMU? I've always thought GART was something graphics card related,.. but if so,.. how could this solve our problem (that seems to occur mainly on harddisks)? The GART built into the Athlon 64/Opteron CPUs is

Re: data corruption with nvidia chipsets and IDE/SATA drives (k8 cpu errata needed?)

2007-01-16 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Chris Wedgwood wrote: right now i'm thinking if we can't figure out which cpu/bios combinations are safe we might almost be better off doing iommu=soft for *all* k8 stuff except for those that are whitelisted; though this seems extremely drastic I agree,... it seems drastic, but this is

Re: data corruption with nvidia chipsets and IDE/SATA drives (k8 cpu errata needed?)

2007-01-16 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Arkadiusz Miskiewicz wrote: FYI it seems that I was also hit by this bug with qlogic fc card + adaptec taro raid controller on Thunder K8SRE S2891 mainboard with nvidia chipset on it.

Re: data corruption with nvidia chipsets and IDE/SATA drives (k8 cpu errata needed?)

2007-01-16 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Chris Wedgwood wrote: I'd like to here from Andi how he feels about this? It seems like a somewhat drastic solution in some ways given a lot of hardware doesn't seem to be affected (or maybe in those cases it's just really hard to hit, I don't know). Yes this might be true,.. those who

Re: data corruption with nvidia chipsets and IDE/SATA drives (k8 cpu errata needed?)

2007-01-16 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Andi Kleen wrote: AMD is looking at the issue. Only Nvidia chipsets seem to be affected, although there were similar problems on VIA in the past too. Unless a good workaround comes around soon I'll probably default to iommu=soft on Nvidia. I've just read the posts about AMDs and NVIDIAs effort

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

2007-01-15 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Sorry, as always I've forgot some things... *g* Robert Hancock wrote: > If this is related to some problem with using the GART IOMMU with memory > hole remapping enabled What is that GART thing exactly? Is this the hardware IOMMU? I've always thought GART was something graphics card related,..

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

2007-01-15 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Hi everybody. Sorry again for my late reply... Robert gave us the following interesting information some days ago: Robert Hancock wrote: > If this is related to some problem with using the GART IOMMU with memory > hole remapping enabled, then 2.6.20-rc kernels may avoid this problem on >

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

2007-01-15 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Hi. Some days ago I received the following message from "Sunny Days". I think he did not send it lkml so I forward it now: Sunny Days wrote: > hello, > > i have done some extensive testing on this. > > various opterons, always single socket > various dimms 1 and 2gb modules > and hitachi+seagate

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

2007-01-15 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Hi. Some days ago I received the following message from Sunny Days. I think he did not send it lkml so I forward it now: Sunny Days wrote: hello, i have done some extensive testing on this. various opterons, always single socket various dimms 1 and 2gb modules and hitachi+seagate disks

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

2007-01-15 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Hi everybody. Sorry again for my late reply... Robert gave us the following interesting information some days ago: Robert Hancock wrote: If this is related to some problem with using the GART IOMMU with memory hole remapping enabled, then 2.6.20-rc kernels may avoid this problem on nForce4

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

2007-01-15 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Sorry, as always I've forgot some things... *g* Robert Hancock wrote: If this is related to some problem with using the GART IOMMU with memory hole remapping enabled What is that GART thing exactly? Is this the hardware IOMMU? I've always thought GART was something graphics card related,..

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

2007-01-04 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Hi. Just for you information: I've put the issue into the kernel.org bugzilla. http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7768 Chris. begin:vcard fn:Mitterer, Christoph Anton n:Mitterer;Christoph Anton email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] x-mozilla-html:TRUE version:2.1 end:vcard

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

2007-01-04 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Hi. Just for you information: I've put the issue into the kernel.org bugzilla. http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7768 Chris. begin:vcard fn:Mitterer, Christoph Anton n:Mitterer;Christoph Anton email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] x-mozilla-html:TRUE version:2.1 end:vcard

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

2007-01-03 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
spent > considerable time attempting to reproduce this problem on one of our > reference motherboards without success. If you could ship a system > which reliably reproduces the problem, I'd be happy to investigate further. > > Thanks, > Lonni J Friedman > NVIDIA Corporation > &g

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

2007-01-03 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
considerable time attempting to reproduce this problem on one of our reference motherboards without success. If you could ship a system which reliably reproduces the problem, I'd be happy to investigate further. Thanks, Lonni J Friedman NVIDIA Corporation Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: Hi

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

2006-12-22 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
John A Chaves wrote: > I didn't need to run a specific test for this. The normal workload of the > machine approximates a continuous selftest for almost the last year. > > Large files (4-12GB is typical) are being continuously packed and unpacked > with gzip and bzip2. Statistical analysis of

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

2006-12-22 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Hi my friends It became a little bit silent about this issue... any new ideas or results? Karsten Weiss wrote: > BTW: Did someone already open an official bug at > http://bugzilla.kernel.org ? Karsten, did you already file a bug? I told the whole issue to the Debian people which are

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

2006-12-22 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Hi my friends It became a little bit silent about this issue... any new ideas or results? Karsten Weiss wrote: BTW: Did someone already open an official bug at http://bugzilla.kernel.org ? Karsten, did you already file a bug? I told the whole issue to the Debian people which are about

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

2006-12-22 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
John A Chaves wrote: I didn't need to run a specific test for this. The normal workload of the machine approximates a continuous selftest for almost the last year. Large files (4-12GB is typical) are being continuously packed and unpacked with gzip and bzip2. Statistical analysis of the

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

2006-12-14 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: >> 4) >> And does someone know if the nforce/opteron iommu requires IBM Calgary >> IOMMU support? >> > It doesn't, Calgary isn't found in machine with Opteron CPUs or NForce > chipsets (AFAIK). However, compiling Calgary in should make no > difference, as we detect in

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

2006-12-14 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: 4) And does someone know if the nforce/opteron iommu requires IBM Calgary IOMMU support? It doesn't, Calgary isn't found in machine with Opteron CPUs or NForce chipsets (AFAIK). However, compiling Calgary in should make no difference, as we detect in run-time

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

2006-12-13 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Hi. I've just looked for some kernel config options that might relate to our issue: 1) Old style AMD Opteron NUMA detection (CONFIG_K8_NUMA) Enable K8 NUMA node topology detection. You should say Y here if you have a multi processor AMD K8 system. This uses an old method to read the NUMA

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

2006-12-13 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Lennart Sorensen wrote: > I upgrade my plextor firmware using linux. pxupdate for most devices, > and pxfw for new drivers (like the PX760). Works perfectly for me. It > is one of the reasons I buy plextors. Yes I know about it,.. although never tested it,... anyway the main reason for Windows

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

2006-12-13 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Erik Andersen wrote: > I just realized that booting with "iommu=soft" makes my pcHDTV > HD5500 DVB cards not work. Time to go back to disabling the > memhole and losing 1 GB. :-( Crazy,... I have a Hauppauge Nova-T 500 DualDVB-T card,... I'll check it later if I have the same problem and will

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

2006-12-13 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Chris Wedgwood wrote: >> Did anyone made any test under Windows? I cannot set there >> iommu=soft, can I? >> > Windows never uses the hardware iommu, so it's always doing the > equivalent on iommu=soft > That would mean that I'm not able to reproduce the issue unter windows, right? Does

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

2006-12-13 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Karsten Weiss wrote: > "Memory hole mapping" was set to "hardware". With "disabled" we only > see 3 of our 4 GB memory. > That sounds reasonable,... I even only see 2,5 GB,.. as my memhole takes 1536 MB (don't ask me which PCI device needs that much address space ;) ) begin:vcard fn:Mitterer,

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

2006-12-13 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Karsten Weiss wrote: > Of course, the big question "Why does the hardware iommu *not* > work on those machines?" still remains. > I'm going to check AMDs errata docs these days,.. perhaps I find something that relates. But I'd ask you to do the same as I don't consider myself as an expert in

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

2006-12-13 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Ah and I forgot,... Did anyone made any test under Windows? I cannot set there iommu=soft, can I? Chris. begin:vcard fn:Mitterer, Christoph Anton n:Mitterer;Christoph Anton email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] x-mozilla-html:TRUE version:2.1 end:vcard

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