Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030408AbVJEWgI (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Oct 2005 18:36:08 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030405AbVJEWgH (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Oct 2005 18:36:07 -0400 Received: from ylpvm12-ext.prodigy.net ([207.115.57.43]:58264 "EHLO ylpvm12.prodigy.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030408AbVJEWgF (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Oct 2005 18:36:05 -0400 X-ORBL: [69.225.172.73] Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.14-rc2 1/2] libata: Marvell spinlock fixes and simplification From: Michael Madore To: Brett Russ Cc: Jeff Garzik , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Pasi Pirhonen , Bogdan Costescu , "Mr. Berkley Shands" , Jim Edwards , scott olson , Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen , Evgeny Rodichev In-Reply-To: <20051005210842.F366B26369@lns1058.lss.emc.com> References: <20051005210610.EC31826369@lns1058.lss.emc.com> <20051005210842.F366B26369@lns1058.lss.emc.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2005 15:35:44 -0700 Message-Id: <1128551744.4041.7.camel@drevil.aslab.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.0.4 (2.0.4-6) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 673 Lines: 18 On Wed, 2005-10-05 at 17:08 -0400, Brett Russ wrote: > This patch should fix up lockups that people were seeing due to > improper spinlock placement. Also, the start/stop DMA routines put > guarded trust in the cached state of DMA. Hi Brett, I assume this patch doesn't address the 'abnormal status 0x80' issue on the 6081. On the 5081, I still get two machine checks followed by a hard lockup when I load the driver. Mike - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/