Re: oom-killer: gfp_mask=0xd1 with 2.6.15.4 on EM64T [previously 2.6.12]

[Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>]

J M Cerqueira Esteves <jmce@artenumerica.com> wrote:
>
> Andrew Morton wrote:
> > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.16-rc5/2.6.16-rc5-mm2/broken-out/x86_64-mm-blk-bounce.patch.
> >  Could you test that?  (and don't alter the Cc: list!).  The patch is
> > against 2.6.16-rc5.
> 
> I forgot to mention that the DVD drive was not automatically recognized:
> 
> ata1: PATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0x1F0 ctl 0x3F6 bmdma 0x18F0 irq 14
> ata1: dev 0 cfg 49:0f00 82:0218 83:4000 84:4000 85:0218 86:0000 87:4000
> 88:041f
> ata1: dev 0 ATAPI, max UDMA/66
> ata1: dev 0 configured for UDMA/33
> scsi0 : ata_piix
> ata1(0): WARNING: ATAPI is disabled, device ignored.
> 
> Is this still as described in
> http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Problems_with_SATA_and_Linux
> under "DVD drive not recognized"?  Perhaps I'll be able to do some tests
> on that later, too.
> 

I've not been following the saga of atapi-versus-libata at all closely. 
Booting with libata.atapi_enabled=1 might make things work.  I think Randy
should know what happened here?

You were testing 2.6.16-rc5, yes?  What did you expect to see and what were
you seeing in earlier kernels (which versions?)  (IOW: what did we break
this time?)