Re: highmem, aic7xxx, and vfat: too few segs for dma mapping

[Steve Lord <lord@sgi.com>]

On Thu, 2001-12-13 at 14:48, Justin T. Gibbs wrote:
> >So according to this, zero.
> 
> Thanks for the info - its the first useful report I've gotten todate. 8-)
> I believe I've found and fixed the bug.  I've changed a few other things
> in the driver for the 6.2.5 release, so once I've tested them I'll release
> new patches.  In the mean time, you should be able to avoid the problem by
> moving the initialization of scb->sg_count to 0 in the function:
> 
> 	aic7xxx_linux.c:ahc_linux_run_device_queue()
> 
> to before the statement:
> 
> 	if (cmd->use_sg != 0) {
> 
> I'd give you diffs, but these other changes in my tree need more testing
> before I'll feel comfortable releasing them.  I also don't have a 2.5 tree
> downloaded yet to verify that the driver functions there.
> 
> In order to reproduce the bug, you need to issue a command that uses
> all of the segments of a given transaction and then have a command with
> use_sg == 0 be the next command to use that same SCB.  This explains why
> I was not able to reproduce the problem here.

Thanks, I will test it out here and let you know, looks like David
Miller is proposing the same assignment in a different place.

Steve

> 
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> Justin
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