Re: Bug: get EXT3-fs error Allocating block in system zone

2008-01-31 Thread Marco Gatti
Robert Hancock schrieb: Linus Torvalds wrote: On Mon, 10 Dec 2007, Marco Gatti wrote: I didn't compile completly. drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c:1565:1: error: unterminated #else Heh. That #else should be an #endif, of course. It is a bit strange that it still tries to do IO to high memory.

Re: Bug: get EXT3-fs error Allocating block in system zone

2007-12-19 Thread Marco Gatti
Linus Torvalds schrieb: On Sun, 9 Dec 2007, Robert Hancock wrote: The obvious suspect with a filesystem problem would be the disk controller driver, AHCI here. However, the controller appears to set the flag to indicate that it supports 64-bit DMA, so it should be fine, unless it lies of

Re: Bug: get EXT3-fs error Allocating block in system zone

2007-12-19 Thread Alan Cox
AHCI is a pretty well tested driver, but 99%+ of all testers still tend to have less than 4GB of memory. So I do *not* believe that the highmem bits are all that well tested at all. Lab tested well and we pretty rapidly found the problems with non Intel AHCI that had 4GB cases. dmesg,

Re: Bug: get EXT3-fs error Allocating block in system zone

2007-12-18 Thread Marco Gatti
Linus Torvalds schrieb: On Mon, 10 Dec 2007, Marco Gatti wrote: I didn't compile completly. drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c:1565:1: error: unterminated #else Heh. That #else should be an #endif, of course. It is a bit strange that it still tries to do IO to high memory. Either the whole 64 bit

Responding to 2 thread 2.6.23.8 - Hang with sata_mv (7042)... AND Bug: get EXT3-fs error Allocating block in system zone

2007-12-11 Thread Morrison, Tom
-ide) entitled Bug: get EXT3-fs error Allocating block in system zone . Somebody there has a similar problem on x86-32 with RAM above 4GB using a standard AHCI SATA controller. Jens has posted a couple of debugging patches there to try and isolate things. (patches attached here for convenience

Re: Responding to 2 thread 2.6.23.8 - Hang with sata_mv (7042)... AND Bug: get EXT3-fs error Allocating block in system zone

2007-12-11 Thread Mark Lord
is located). .. Tom: could you please try and follow the recent thread here (linux-ide) entitled Bug: get EXT3-fs error Allocating block in system zone . Somebody there has a similar problem on x86-32 with RAM above 4GB using a standard AHCI SATA controller. Jens has posted a couple of debugging

RE: Responding to 2 thread 2.6.23.8 - Hang with sata_mv (7042)... AND Bug: get EXT3-fs error Allocating block in system zone

2007-12-11 Thread Morrison, Tom
@vger.kernel.org; Tejun Heo; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Responding to 2 thread 2.6.23.8 - Hang with sata_mv (7042)... AND Bug: get EXT3-fs error Allocating block in system zone Morrison, Tom wrote: snip results that worked That's a bit strange, actually.. because you said that this system does not have any

Re: Bug: get EXT3-fs error Allocating block in system zone

2007-12-10 Thread Mark Lord
Linus Torvalds wrote: On Sun, 9 Dec 2007, Robert Hancock wrote: The obvious suspect with a filesystem problem would be the disk controller driver, AHCI here. However, the controller appears to set the flag to indicate that it supports 64-bit DMA, so it should be fine, unless it lies of

Re: Bug: get EXT3-fs error Allocating block in system zone

2007-12-10 Thread Marco Gatti
Mark Lord schrieb: AHCI is a pretty well tested driver, but 99%+ of all testers still tend to have less than 4GB of memory. So I do *not* believe that the highmem bits are all that well tested at all. Can somebody who knows the driver send Marco a test-patch to just limit DMA to the low 32

Re: Bug: get EXT3-fs error Allocating block in system zone

2007-12-10 Thread Marco Gatti
Jens Axboe schrieb: Hello Jens, Thanks for help. I just applied the patch. Unfortunately it doesn't work. Can you try and additionally boot with iommu=off as a boot parameter? Yes. This is the end of getting any sata devices. See screenshots for errors. It continued untill ata4. At the end no

Re: Bug: get EXT3-fs error Allocating block in system zone

2007-12-10 Thread Jens Axboe
On Mon, Dec 10 2007, Marco Gatti wrote: Jens Axboe schrieb: Hello Jens, Thanks for help. I just applied the patch. Unfortunately it doesn't work. Can you try and additionally boot with iommu=off as a boot parameter? Yes. This is the end of getting any sata devices. See screenshots for

Re: Bug: get EXT3-fs error Allocating block in system zone

2007-12-10 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Mon, 10 Dec 2007, Marco Gatti wrote: I didn't compile completly. drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c:1565:1: error: unterminated #else Heh. That #else should be an #endif, of course. It is a bit strange that it still tries to do IO to high memory. Either the whole 64 bit capability thing in AHCI

Re: Bug: get EXT3-fs error Allocating block in system zone

2007-12-10 Thread Robert Hancock
Linus Torvalds wrote: On Mon, 10 Dec 2007, Marco Gatti wrote: I didn't compile completly. drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c:1565:1: error: unterminated #else Heh. That #else should be an #endif, of course. It is a bit strange that it still tries to do IO to high memory. Either the whole 64 bit

Re: Bug: get EXT3-fs error Allocating block in system zone

2007-12-09 Thread Jens Axboe
On Sun, Dec 09 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote: On Sun, 9 Dec 2007, Robert Hancock wrote: The obvious suspect with a filesystem problem would be the disk controller driver, AHCI here. However, the controller appears to set the flag to indicate that it supports 64-bit DMA, so it should

Re: Bug: get EXT3-fs error Allocating block in system zone

2007-12-09 Thread Jens Axboe
On Sun, Dec 09 2007, Marco Gatti wrote: Jens Axboe schrieb: Was just thinking that, this should do the trick. If this works, then we can look at whether this is a hardware or iommu or block bouncing (unlikely, would affect more people) bug. diff --git a/drivers/ata/ahci.c

Re: Bug: get EXT3-fs error Allocating block in system zone

2007-12-09 Thread Marco Gatti
Jens Axboe schrieb: Was just thinking that, this should do the trick. If this works, then we can look at whether this is a hardware or iommu or block bouncing (unlikely, would affect more people) bug. diff --git a/drivers/ata/ahci.c b/drivers/ata/ahci.c index 4688dbf..cad3cbc 100644 ---

Re: Bug: get EXT3-fs error Allocating block in system zone

2007-12-09 Thread Jens Axboe
On Sun, Dec 09 2007, Marco Gatti wrote: Jens Axboe schrieb: On Sun, Dec 09 2007, Marco Gatti wrote: Jens Axboe schrieb: Was just thinking that, this should do the trick. If this works, then we can look at whether this is a hardware or iommu or block bouncing (unlikely, would affect more