Bug 434741 - AMD SB700/SB800 SATA support 64bit DMA
Summary: AMD SB700/SB800 SATA support 64bit DMA
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
Classification: Red Hat
Component: kernel
Version: 5.2
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
high
Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: Bhavna Sarathy
QA Contact: Martin Jenner
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Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks: 253746
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2008-02-25 07:45 UTC by Shane Huang
Modified: 2009-06-20 02:25 UTC (History)
6 users (show)

Fixed In Version: RHBA-2008-0314
Doc Type: Bug Fix
Doc Text:
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed: 2008-05-21 15:10:41 UTC
Target Upstream Version:
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Attachments (Terms of Use)
SB700/SB800 SATA support 64bit DMA (1.75 KB, patch)
2008-02-25 07:45 UTC, Shane Huang
no flags Details | Diff
RHEL patch: 64-bit DMA support patch (2.30 KB, patch)
2008-02-28 20:16 UTC, Bhavna Sarathy
no flags Details | Diff


Links
System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHBA-2008:0314 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Updated kernel packages for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2 2008-05-20 18:43:34 UTC

Description Shane Huang 2008-02-25 07:45:32 UTC
Description of problem:
SB700 SATA controller can support 64 bit DMA, the previous git commit
badc2341579511a247f5993865aa68379e283c5c was added with
careless reference to SB600, which should be modified by this patch.

This patch has been accepted by kernel.org, the git commit is:
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-
2.6.git;a=commit;h=e39fc8c9fd0bb6f4018186801e4a53a5eccaaf70

Can you add this patch to RHEL5.2 before its final release?
If it is too late to add it to RHEL5.2, you can add it to RHEL5.3

Thanks

Comment 1 Shane Huang 2008-02-25 07:45:32 UTC
Created attachment 295770 [details]
SB700/SB800 SATA support 64bit DMA

Comment 2 Russell Doty 2008-02-25 19:40:19 UTC
Shane,

What problem does this patch fix? What happens if we do not include this patch?

Comment 3 Shane Huang 2008-02-26 02:19:22 UTC
We are only be able to benefit from 4G system memory without this patch,
even if there is more than 4G physical memory on the board with SB700.

Comment 4 Bhavna Sarathy 2008-02-27 20:04:55 UTC
Russ,

Peter verbally okayed the inclusion of this patch yesterday and I'll work on 
creating a patch for testing and submission.  I've added the BZ to the R5.2 
masterbug so I don't lose sight of it's existance.

Bhavana

Comment 5 RHEL Program Management 2008-02-27 20:59:06 UTC
This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for inclusion in a Red
Hat Enterprise Linux maintenance release.  Product Management has requested
further review of this request by Red Hat Engineering, for potential
inclusion in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux Update release for currently deployed
products.  This request is not yet committed for inclusion in an Update
release.

Comment 6 Bhavna Sarathy 2008-02-28 20:16:49 UTC
Created attachment 296252 [details]
RHEL patch: 64-bit DMA support patch

RPMs built on brew and uploaded to AMD for testing.

Comment 7 Bhavna Sarathy 2008-02-29 16:08:57 UTC
AMD chipset QA test results using RHEL brew build

List test item as below and result at the right side.

4G/6G memory boot     ----------------------   PASS
AHCI/Native IDE/Combine Mode --------   PASS
Hdd performance test     --------------------   PASS
Bonnie++ on hdd   -----------------------------  PASS
Burnintest for 5h   ------------------------------   PASS

Config:

CPU: Deerhound AM2r2 B0 Node4M uPGA Organic 1800MHz/1600MHz/2048K/2MB/1.2V DT 4C
89W EVT
Motherboard: AMD Shiner RS780 A12/SB700 A12 Rev.04
Memory: Kingston 1024MB 800MT/s DDR2 UDIMM(2048M for 6G test)
SATA HDD: Western Digital Caviar SE WD1600AAJS SATA/300 160GB   

Submitted to RHML on Feb 29

Comment 8 Bhavna Sarathy 2008-03-20 13:36:08 UTC
Submitted to RHML on 2/29, received 2 ACKs.

Comment 9 Bhavna Sarathy 2008-04-01 15:04:00 UTC
Submitted two upstream commits to address SB600 32-bit and sect255 issue:

a878539ef994787c447a98c2e3ba0fe3dad984ec
4cde32fc4b32e96a99063af3183acdfd54c563f0



Comment 11 Shane Huang 2008-04-02 00:49:28 UTC
1. Can you also upload the testing patch to this BZ?
2. Has the patch in comment #6 been added into RHEL5.2 kernel?
3. Do you mean you only add these two upstream commits to SB600? While SB700 
is not impacted?


Comment 12 Shane Huang 2008-04-03 06:45:33 UTC
The testing kernel with those two upstream commits to address SB600 32-bit
and sect255 issue:

a878539ef994787c447a98c2e3ba0fe3dad984ec
4cde32fc4b32e96a99063af3183acdfd54c563f0

works well on SB600 boards in our QA's test. FYI.


Comment 13 Don Zickus 2008-04-09 18:44:22 UTC
in kernel-2.6.18-89.el5
You can download this test kernel from http://people.redhat.com/dzickus/el5

Comment 15 John Poelstra 2008-04-23 17:40:38 UTC
Greetings Red Hat Partner,

A fix for this issue should be included in the latest packages contained in
RHEL5.2-Snapshot6--available now on partners.redhat.com.  

We are nearing GA for 5.2 so please test and confirm that your issue is fixed ASAP.

After you (Red Hat Partner) have verified that this issue has been addressed,
please perform the following:
1) Change the *status* of this bug to VERIFIED.
2) Add *keyword* of PartnerVerified (leaving the existing keywords unmodified)

If this issue is not fixed, please add a comment describing the most recent
symptoms of the problem you are having and change the status of the bug to ASSIGNED.

If you are receiving this message in Issue Tracker, please reply with a message
to Issue Tracker about your results and I will update bugzilla for you.  If you
need assistance accessing ftp://partners.redhat.com, please contact your Partner
Manager.

Thank you


Comment 16 John Poelstra 2008-05-01 16:50:44 UTC
Greetings Red Hat Partner,

A fix for this issue should be included in the latest packages contained in
RHEL5.2-Snapshot7--available now on partners.redhat.com.  

We are nearing GA for 5.2--this is the last opportunity to test and confirm that
your issue is fixed.

After you (Red Hat Partner) have verified that this issue has been addressed,
please perform the following:
1) Change the *status* of this bug to VERIFIED.
2) Add *keyword* of PartnerVerified (leaving the existing keywords unmodified)

If this issue is not fixed, please add a comment describing the most recent
symptoms of the problem you are having and change the status of the bug to ASSIGNED.

If you are receiving this message in Issue Tracker, please reply with a message
to Issue Tracker about your results and I will update bugzilla for you.  If you
need assistance accessing ftp://partners.redhat.com, please contact your Partner
Manager.

Thank you

Comment 18 errata-xmlrpc 2008-05-21 15:10:41 UTC
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on the solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2008-0314.html



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