On Mon, Sep 22, 2025 at 11:04:06PM +0200, Magnus Lindholm wrote: > On Thu, Sep 18, 2025 at 8:45 PM Leon Romanovsky <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > From: Leon Romanovsky <[email protected]> > > > > Alpha doesn't need struct *page and can perform mapping based on > > physical addresses. So convert it to implement new .map_phys callback. > > > Hi, > > SInce this patch affects the Alpha platform I got curious and decided to > try it out. The patch series requires some preparatory patches. Leon > provided me with links to his dmabuf-vfio branch, which had the > patches (and some prerequisite stuff) applied already. > > Based on the dmabuf-vfio branch, I've built a kernel and tested it on > my ES40 Alphaserver, the kernel booted fine but after a while of > moderate filesystem load I started seeing some ext3/4 related error > messages in the system logs. Rebooting with my old kernel into > single user mode, I was able to recover the filesystem using fsck. > Clearly this set of patches breaks things (at least on Alpha).
I will try to setup Alpha architecture in QEMU in following days, but would like to ask first. Did you test alpha on clean v6.17-rc5 (without my patches) as a reference? Thanks
