Re: data corruption with nvidia chipsets and IDE/SATA drives (k8 cpu errata needed?)

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Mon Mar 12 2007 - 09:07:01 EST



> Andi, have you had a look at this? I'm a bit surprised at the lack of
> reaction to this find..


FYI the problem is still being analysed behind the scenes. Chip's patch didn't fix
it in all cases unfortunately -- it just changed the timing enough to make it happen
less often. The latest evidence points to a DMA mapping management problem
in Linux. Apparently in some cases sata_nv does DMA on an already freed and then
reused mapping.

-Andi
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