From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261193AbTLCUvt (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Dec 2003 15:51:49 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261492AbTLCUvt (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Dec 2003 15:51:49 -0500 Received: from scrye.com ([216.17.180.1]:63150 "EHLO mail.scrye.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261193AbTLCUvq (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Dec 2003 15:51:46 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2003 13:51:40 -0700 From: Kevin Fenzi To: Mark Haverkamp Cc: linux-kernel , linux aacraid devel Subject: Re: aacraid and large memory problem (2.6.0-test11) In-Reply-To: <1070396482.16903.11.camel@markh1.pdx.osdl.net> References: <20031202193520.74481F7CC8@voldemort.scrye.com> <1070396482.16903.11.camel@markh1.pdx.osdl.net> X-Mailer: VM 7.17 under 21.4 (patch 14) "Reasonable Discussion" XEmacs Lucid Message-Id: <20031203205141.EB67EF7C86@voldemort.scrye.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 >>>>> "Mark" == Mark Haverkamp writes: Mark> On Tue, 2003-12-02 at 11:35, Kevin Fenzi wrote: >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 >> >> >> Greetings, >> >> Booting 2.6.0-test11 on a machine with 8GB memory and using the >> aacraid driver results in a hang on boot. Passing mem=2048M causes >> it to boot normally. 4GB also hangs. 2.6.0-test8 booted normally on >> this same hardware. >> >> 8GB memory, dual xeon 3.06mhz with hyperthreading, RedHat 9 on it >> currently. >> >> Happy to provide details on setup/software, etc. >> >> Perhaps this patch in 2.6.0-test9 is the culprit? >> http://www.linuxhq.com/kernel/v2.6/0-test9/drivers/scsi/aacraid/comminit.c Mark> This patch is what made aacraid work with over 4 gig of memory Mark> for me. I have an 8 proc system with 16gig of memory and without Mark> this patch I get data corruption in high memory. Mark> I don't boot on the aacraid though. Is there any way you can try booting from it and see if it's a boot issue for you as well? I can try booting the one here from something else and see if it works with that. kevin -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Processed by Mailcrypt 3.5.8 iD8DBQE/zkzd3imCezTjY0ERAtdRAJ9NIp56DWRFI6zxpbgyLtKQzkYcIACfYKil Z6XcmnrXQ9Qsiy24d7ac044= =a+PX -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----