Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755913AbXLGAnW (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Dec 2007 19:43:22 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752603AbXLGAnO (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Dec 2007 19:43:14 -0500 Received: from smtp2.linux-foundation.org ([207.189.120.14]:33632 "EHLO smtp2.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752068AbXLGAnO (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Dec 2007 19:43:14 -0500 Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2007 16:42:19 -0800 (PST) From: Linus Torvalds To: Andrew Morton cc: Marco Gatti , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Greg KH , Thomas Gleixner , Ingo Molnar Subject: Re: Bug: get EXT3-fs error Allocating block in system zone In-Reply-To: <20071206162500.1f76a234.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Message-ID: References: <4755BEA1.4090604@pianoinflames.de> <20071206162500.1f76a234.akpm@linux-foundation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1300 Lines: 36 On Thu, 6 Dec 2007, Andrew Morton wrote: > > http://bugs.gentoo.org/attachment.cgi?id=135761&action=view > > It disables PCI BARs during sizing. ISTR Linus opining that this was the > wrong thing to do? It looks ok now that it doesn't do it for host controllers. I guess we could just apply it. > ISTR him having opinions on mmconfig too ;) That piece of unbelievable crap? Have I ever said anything negative about something that shitty? I can't imagine having ever badmouthed such a mindless and totally broken piece of sh*t hardware/firmware interface. > We should not require people to use obscure boot options to get their > machines working. Arjan swears he'll have a patch for me to only use mmconfig when actually appropriate by 2.6.25. In the meantime, the BAR disable is probably worth trying. But the disk errors are something else, doesn't ring a bell. Sounds like IO corruption on the group descriptor block or something like that. Might be worth testing to see if the problem goes away with less than 4GB of RAM.. Linus -- 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/