I still have one that has a DMA error, but this case has a modified M5 so I
could likely be the cause. All the vanilla kernel and vanilla m5 runs check
out.

Best,
-Rick

On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 4:54 PM, Ali Saidi <[email protected]> wrote:

> Most?
>
> Ali
>
> On Aug 22, 2011, at 11:35 AM, Richard Strong wrote:
>
> Updating gem5 to the current version appears to have removed most of the
> errors. Thanks for the tip.
>
> Best,
> -Rick
>
> On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 3:33 PM, Ali Saidi <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hi Rick,
>>
>> I just committed a fix that addresses an issue I found with newer kernels
>> and our ide disk, but I haven't seen this one. It's possible that
>> they're related, so you might want to try it.
>>
>> Ali
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, 19 Aug 2011 11:03:39 -0700, Richard Strong <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I was doing an experiment with the Berkeley DB benchmark ex_tpc. What I
>> notice is that increasing the disk latency from 1us to 10us causes the
>> following: panic in a vanilla kernel:
>>
>> panic: Inconsistent DMA transfer state: dmaState = 2 devState = 0
>>
>> In addition, I notice that if I bind network and disk interrupts to a
>> core, this error occurs in twice as many cases. The tested simulation
>> featured two m5 default setting O3 cores (I have also seen the same DMA
>> problem with simpler O3 models and the TimingSimpleCPU), the vanilla 2.6.27
>> m5 kernel  and a 3 level cache (using the MESI express snoop protocol). I am
>> currently running gem5-changeset:8339.
>>
>> I have also found this thread which seems to have a similar problem, but
>> considers the x86 ISA and mentions that the APIC is the heart of the
>> problem.
>>
>> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg03192.html
>>
>> If anyone happens to know how to fix the problem or efficient
>> documentation on how Ide works, your thoughts and words would be greatly
>> appreciated.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> -Rick
>>
>>
>>
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