Re: USB transfer_buffer allocations on 64bit systems

[Pedro Ribeiro]

On 14 April 2010 23:25, Chris Wright <chrisw@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> * 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?
>

Where do I find this option in make menuconfig? Doesn't seem to be available...

>> Enabling it with iommu=pt seemed to make no difference.
>
> It should (it should at least eliminate the video device problem).
>

You are right, it does eliminate that problem. However I can't get any
of the USB devices to work, and the mouse is terribly slow. One more
dmesg attached.

Pedro

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