Re: acenic >4gig sendfile problem

[Dave Hansen]

Jes Sorensen wrote:
>>>>>>"Dave" == Dave Hansen <[e-mail]> writes:
>>>>>
> 
> Dave> When doing sendfile with my acenic card on my 8xPIII-700 and PAE
> Dave> running 2.4.18, I'm getting all zeros in the files being
> Dave> transmitted.  Running the Redhat 2.4.18-4 kernel fixes the
> Dave> problem.  I saw this entry in the rpm's changelog: * Sat Aug 25
> Dave> 2001 Ingo Molnar <[e-mail]> - fix the acenic driver bug
> Dave> that caused random kernel memory being sent out on the wire, on
> Dave> x86 systems with more than 4 GB RAM.
> 
> Actually I think you're hitting a bug in pci_map_page() rather than in
> the acenic.driver.
> 
> Try the patch from Ben LaHaise included below.
> 

Thanks for the patch.  I'll give it a shot when I get back from OLS.

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Dave Hansen
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