Re: USB transfer_buffer allocations on 64bit systems

From: Chris Wright
Date: Wed Apr 14 2010 - 18:28:05 EST


* Pedro Ribeiro (pedrib@xxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> Turns out CONFIG_DMAR was disabled because of PREEMPT_RT. I disabled
> the later and enabled _DMAR. It took a long time to boot, something
> wrong with the usb ports. You can see it in the appended dmesg from
> time 11s to 100s.
>
> Then after it booted, I could barely move my USB mouse and lots of
> errors appeared on dmesg. I tried to connect the DVB card but it
> wouldn't even initialize.

[ 316.360045] DMAR:[DMA Write] Request device [00:02.0] fault addr 23c00000
[ 316.360046] DMAR:[fault reason 05] PTE Write access is not set

That's your video device. Do you have CONFIG_DMAR_BROKEN_GFX_WA=y?

> Enabling it with iommu=pt seemed to make no difference.

It should (it should at least eliminate the video device problem).
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