Re: [PATCH 2.6.14-rc2 1/2] libata: Marvell spinlock fixes andsimplification

From: Michael Madore
Date: Wed Oct 05 2005 - 17:36:35 EST


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

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