Re: 2.6.16-rc6-mm2

[Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com>]

Hello.

Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Mon, 12 Jun 2006 17:09:52 -0500
> Steve Fox <drfickle@us.ibm.com> wrote:

> > On Fri, 09 Jun 2006 21:40:24 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:

> > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.17-rc6/2.6.17-rc6-mm2/

> > Boot fails on a ppc64 machine.
> >
> > [snip]
> > Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
> > ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
> > AMD8111: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:04.1
> > AMD8111: chipset revision 3
> > AMD8111: 0000:00:04.1 (rev 03) UDMA133 controller
> > AMD8111: 100% native mode on irq 32
> >    ide0: BM-DMA at 0x7c00-0x7c07<3>AMD8111: -- Error, unable to allocate DMA table.
> >    ide1: BM-DMA at 0x7c08-0x7c0f<3>AMD8111: -- Error, unable to allocate DMA table.
> > hda: TOSHIBA MK4019GAXB, ATA DISK drive
> > Unable to handle kernel paging request for data at address 0x00000000
> > Faulting instruction address: 0xc000000000301240
> > cpu 0x1: Vector: 300 (Data Access) at [c000000002a13600]
> >    pc: c000000000301240: .ide_config_drive_speed+0x228/0x624
> >    lr: c0000000002f6c34: .amd_set_drive+0x7c/0x538
> >    sp: c000000002a13880
> >   msr: 8000000000009032
> >   dar: 0
> > dsisr: 40000000
> >  current = 0xc00000000ffd6820
> >  paca    = 0xc000000000590080
> >    pid   = 1, comm = idle

> Thanks.   Reverting the below might fix it.

   Frankly speaking, I don't see how that can be possible. I haven't touched 
any *real* checks in ide_allocate_dma_engine(), so it should fail regardless 
of my patch. I'd rather supposed that pci_alloc_consistent() had failed...

> From: Sergei Shtylylov <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com>

> Release the DMA engine for the custom mapping IDE drivers also (for
> example, siimage.c does allocate it in both I/O-mapped and custom-mapped
> modes).  Remove useless code from the error path of
> ide_allocate_dma_engine().

> Signed-off-by: Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com>
> Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <B.Zolnierkiewicz@elka.pw.edu.pl>
> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
> ---

>  drivers/ide/ide-dma.c |   16 +++++++---------
>  1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

> diff -puN drivers/ide/ide-dma.c~ide-always-release-dma-engine drivers/ide/ide-dma.c
> --- devel/drivers/ide/ide-dma.c~ide-always-release-dma-engine	2006-05-11 15:19:36.000000000 -0700
> +++ devel-akpm/drivers/ide/ide-dma.c	2006-05-11 15:19:36.000000000 -0700
> @@ -808,15 +808,14 @@ static int ide_release_iomio_dma(ide_hwi
>  /*
>   * Needed for allowing full modular support of ide-driver
>   */
> -int ide_release_dma (ide_hwif_t *hwif)
> +int ide_release_dma(ide_hwif_t *hwif)
>  {
> +	ide_release_dma_engine(hwif);
> +
>  	if (hwif->mmio == 2)
>  		return 1;
> -	if (hwif->chipset == ide_etrax100)
> -		return 1;
> -
> -	ide_release_dma_engine(hwif);
> -	return ide_release_iomio_dma(hwif);
> +	else
> +		return ide_release_iomio_dma(hwif);
>  }
>  
>  static int ide_allocate_dma_engine(ide_hwif_t *hwif)
> @@ -828,10 +827,9 @@ static int ide_allocate_dma_engine(ide_h
>  	if (hwif->dmatable_cpu)
>  		return 0;
>  
> -	printk(KERN_ERR "%s: -- Error, unable to allocate%s DMA table(s).\n",
> -			hwif->cds->name, !hwif->dmatable_cpu ? " CPU" : "");
> +	printk(KERN_ERR "%s: -- Error, unable to allocate DMA table.\n",
> +	       hwif->cds->name);
>  
> -	ide_release_dma_engine(hwif);
>  	return 1;
>  }

MBR, Sergei
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