Re: Latest git oopses during boot

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Wed Feb 06 2008 - 17:48:20 EST


On Wed, 6 Feb 2008 17:32:22 +0100
"Harald Arnesen" <skogtun.linux@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Photo of screen attached (no serial terminal, and alas, no decent
> tripod either).

Thanks, but you've disabled so many debug options that the trace isn't
very useful.

> git-bisect gives me this:
>
> 6b7b651055221127304a4e373ee9b762398d54d7 is first bad commit
> commit 6b7b651055221127304a4e373ee9b762398d54d7
> Author: FUJITA Tomonori <tomof@xxxxxxx>
> Date: Mon Feb 4 22:27:55 2008 -0800
>
> iommu sg merging: add device_dma_parameters structure
>
> IOMMUs merges scatter/gather segments without considering a low level
> driver's restrictions. The problem is that IOMMUs can't access to the
> limitations because they are in request_queue.
>
> This patchset introduces a new structure, device_dma_parameters,
> including dma information. A pointer to device_dma_parameters is added
> to struct device. The bus specific structures (like pci_dev) includes
> device_dma_parameters. Low level drivers can use dma_set_max_seg_size
> to tell IOMMUs about the restrictions.
>
> We can move more dma stuff in struct device (like dma_mask) to struct
> device_dma_parameters later (needs some cleanups before that).
>
> This includes patches for all the IOMMUs that could merge sg (x86_64,
> ppc, IA64, alpha, sparc64, and parisc) though only the ppc patch was
> tested. The patches for other IOMMUs are only compile tested.
>
> $ gcc -v
> Using built-in specs.
> Target: i686-pc-linux-gnu
> Configured with: ../configure --prefix=/opt/gcc
> Thread model: posix
> gcc version 4.2.3
>
> Config:
>
> ...
>
> # CONFIG_DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE is not set
>

This one really should be enabled at all times, please.

Can you please set it and retry?
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