Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> > Has anyone else reported a problem like this?  It requires
> > non-coherent DMA, and a lack of a cache invalidate instruction, and
> > one of the drivers that has this problem (it looks like sata_qstor
> > does too, I haven't looked at others), so maybe that doesn't cover
> > any other architectures.
> 
> Nobody has, not even PA-RISC which is normally guaranteed to make life
> miserable in the caching area but I agree entirely with your diagnosis
> and that buffer should indeed be marked cache aligned
> 
> > I can provide a patch if you're interested.
> 
> Please do.

Oops, sorry, I left a file out of that diff.  Here it is again...

*** drivers/scsi/libata-core.c  2008-02-13 13:34:32.141489000 -0500
--- drivers/scsi/libata-core.c.orig     2008-02-13 13:29:35.620360000 -0500
***************
*** 5335,5369 ****
        }
  
        host = scsi_host_alloc(ent->sht, sizeof(struct ata_port));
        if (!host)
                return NULL;
  
        host->transportt = &ata_scsi_transport_template;
  
        ap = ata_shost_to_port(host);
  
-       ap->sector_buf = kmalloc(ATA_SECT_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL);
-       if (!ap->sector_buf)
-               goto err_out;
- 
        ata_host_init(ap, host, host_set, ent, port_no);
  
        rc = ap->ops->port_start(ap);
        if (rc)
                goto err_out;
  
        return ap;
  
  err_out:
-       if (ap->sector_buf)
-               kfree(ap->sector_buf);
        scsi_host_put(host);
        return NULL;
  }
  
  /**
   *    ata_device_add - Register hardware device with ATA and SCSI layers
   *    @ent: Probe information describing hardware device to be registered
   *
   *    This function processes the information provided in the probe
   *    information struct @ent, allocates the necessary ATA and SCSI
--- 5335,5363 ----
***************
*** 5602,5645 ****
   *    Unregister all objects associated with this host set. Free those
   *    objects.
   *
   *    LOCKING:
   *    Inherited from calling layer (may sleep).
   */
  
  void ata_host_set_remove(struct ata_host_set *host_set)
  {
        unsigned int i;
-       u8 *sector_buf;
  
        for (i = 0; i < host_set->n_ports; i++)
                ata_port_detach(host_set->ports[i]);
  
        free_irq(host_set->irq, host_set);
  
        for (i = 0; i < host_set->n_ports; i++) {
                struct ata_port *ap = host_set->ports[i];
  
                ata_scsi_release(ap->host);
  
                if ((ap->flags & ATA_FLAG_NO_LEGACY) == 0) {
                        struct ata_ioports *ioaddr = &ap->ioaddr;
  
                        if (ioaddr->cmd_addr == 0x1f0)
                                release_region(0x1f0, 8);
                        else if (ioaddr->cmd_addr == 0x170)
                                release_region(0x170, 8);
                }
  
-               sector_buf = ap->sector_buf;
                scsi_host_put(ap->host);
-               kfree(sector_buf);
        }
  
        if (host_set->ops->host_stop)
                host_set->ops->host_stop(host_set);
  
        kfree(host_set);
  }
  
  /**
   *    ata_scsi_release - SCSI layer callback hook for host unload
--- 5596,5636 ----
*** include/linux/libata.h      2008-02-13 10:51:39.151202000 -0500
--- include/linux/libata.h.orig 2008-02-13 13:50:26.531572000 -0500
***************
*** 550,570 ****
  
        u32                     msg_enable;
        struct list_head        eh_done_q;
        wait_queue_head_t       eh_wait_q;
  
        pm_message_t            pm_mesg;
        int                     *pm_result;
  
        void                    *private_data;
  
!       u8                      *sector_buf; /* owned by EH */
  };
  
  struct ata_port_operations {
        void (*port_disable) (struct ata_port *);
  
        void (*dev_config) (struct ata_port *, struct ata_device *);
  
        void (*set_piomode) (struct ata_port *, struct ata_device *);
        void (*set_dmamode) (struct ata_port *, struct ata_device *);
        unsigned long (*mode_filter) (const struct ata_port *, struct 
ata_device *, unsigned long);
--- 550,570 ----
  
        u32                     msg_enable;
        struct list_head        eh_done_q;
        wait_queue_head_t       eh_wait_q;
  
        pm_message_t            pm_mesg;
        int                     *pm_result;
  
        void                    *private_data;
  
!       u8                      sector_buf[ATA_SECT_SIZE]; /* owned by EH */
  };
  
  struct ata_port_operations {
        void (*port_disable) (struct ata_port *);
  
        void (*dev_config) (struct ata_port *, struct ata_device *);
  
        void (*set_piomode) (struct ata_port *, struct ata_device *);
        void (*set_dmamode) (struct ata_port *, struct ata_device *);
        unsigned long (*mode_filter) (const struct ata_port *, struct 
ata_device *, unsigned long);
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