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authorDean Nelson <dcn@sgi.com>2006-08-08 16:03:29 -0400
committerTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>2006-08-08 16:28:52 -0400
commit7682a4c624e0011b5f3e8dd3021dc54961260d97 (patch)
treef57ecd8f805a4df701812d3f7456da48bcdf63ac /arch/x86_64
parent9f737633e6ee54fc174282d49b2559bd2208391d (diff)
[IA64-SGI] Silent data corruption caused by XPC V2.
Jack Steiner identified a problem where XPC can cause a silent data corruption. On module load, the placement may cause the xpc_remote_copy_buffer to span two physical pages. DMA transfers are done to the start virtual address translated to physical. This patch changes the buffer from a statically allocated buffer to a kmalloc'd buffer. Dean Nelson reviewed this before posting. I have tested it in the configuration that was showing the memory corruption and verified it works. I also added a BUG_ON statement to help catch this if a similar situation is encountered. Signed-off-by: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Dean Nelson <dcn@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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