BUG in dma-mapping.h:218 // MESH SCSI driver not working
Benjamin Herrenschmidt
benh at kernel.crashing.org
Thu Jul 30 10:52:29 EST 2009
On Thu, 2009-07-30 at 01:42 +0200, Stef Simoens wrote:
> What would be the best approach?
> - if the kernel boots, it's obviously 'good'
> - but what if the kernel hits the 'BUG', should I apply your patch
> then? If it doesn't work with your patch, would it be 'bad' then?
Yes.
> > One thing I know is that the MESH HW has "issues" that make it very
> > sensitive to alignment DMA buffers, it's possible that the SCSI stack no
> > longer aligns some stuff ?
> >
> Hmm, great... how can I verify this?
I will once we get a closer idea of where the bug started to happen.
Thanks !
Cheers,
Ben.
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