Highmem issues with MMC filesystem

Catalin Marinas catalin.marinas at arm.com
Fri Mar 19 14:26:52 EDT 2010


On Fri, 2010-03-19 at 17:59 +0000, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> On Fri, 19 Mar 2010, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 09:17:19AM -0400, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> > > And in this case, the same SATA driver is used on two different system,
> > > one being ARMv5 with absolutely no issues with highmem, and the other
> > > being ARMv6 with highmem problems.  So that pretty much rules out IDE
> > > driver bugs.
> >
> > No it doesn't - there's more changes between ARMv5 and ARMv6 than just
> > the cache model.  There's weak memory ordering effects too.
> 
> Sure.  But at the moment we have:
> 
>  - ARMv5 without highmem -> works
> 
>  - ARMv5 with highmem -> works
> 
>  - ARMv6 without highmem -> works
> 
>  - ARMv6 with highmem -> fails
> 
> In all four cases the SATA driver, the hard disk and the filesystem on
> it are identical.  In the two ARMv5 cases the system and the kernel are
> identical.  Ditto for the two ARMv6 cases.

Which ARMv6 processor is this?

Is the SATA driver using DMA (I think I read this in the thread but it
started as MMC issues and got confused)?

Thanks.

-- 
Catalin




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