From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 28 12:22:37 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 047AB16A46D for ; Wed, 28 Nov 2007 12:22:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from barney_cordoba@yahoo.com) Received: from web63908.mail.re1.yahoo.com (web63908.mail.re1.yahoo.com [69.147.97.123]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9D9BF13C469 for ; Wed, 28 Nov 2007 12:22:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from barney_cordoba@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 38231 invoked by uid 60001); 28 Nov 2007 12:22:35 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=X-YMail-OSG:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:Cc:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Message-ID; b=XnDU0QN+9Uk7WI8pGe7PKf5DifnPOdIF6Hke+hFTfbsyNpWYsZHe5AYn9fayUk+iWZk9tqzQT+/wE9LAQbN/NdIWHVzL3tv7OSYn4BFjCZ9ERQTJbhLY9FBvn7xg4CQ/6AeIlSVwmm89fR6r00oRQ6mi54fgHkjAHYk9JlxemVQ=; X-YMail-OSG: BLAECoUVM1nPT2zzBZe8pXCOSj0P8hAJycSeqm_vq5MotFJuHPXxuyE0kjRvrli4tm1DJyhy9gft65Y0KlsPR2qe5cciHV6dyluD6jgFjS8Zp71koNeqig-- Received: from [98.203.28.38] by web63908.mail.re1.yahoo.com via HTTP; Wed, 28 Nov 2007 04:22:35 PST Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 04:22:35 -0800 (PST) From: Barney Cordoba To: "Søren" Schmidt , John Baldwin In-Reply-To: <474D1C8C.2060304@deepcore.dk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: <716784.37627.qm@web63908.mail.re1.yahoo.com> Cc: Barney Cordoba , freebsd-current@freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Any successful installs on a Broadcom HT1000 chipset? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 12:22:37 -0000 --- Søren Schmidt wrote: > John Baldwin wrote: > > > > FYI, I've seen weird in-memory corruption with > machines with the HT1000_S1 > > atapci device. In all the cases I've seen so far, > a single page is corrupted > > with garbage and the page happens to be used by > UMA to hold credentials > > including proc0's credentials. I've seen this > corruption (trashed creds for > > proc0 and other creds in that page) on many of the > same boxes (Dell 1435's > > IIRC) running on 6.2. I've tried switching the > HT1000_S1 to use SWKSMIO > > rather SWKS100 as I mentioned to you in an earlier > e-mail (the Linux driver > > uses equivalent of SWKSMIO FWIW) but don't have > any conclusive tests on that. > > > > > OK, seems the chipset has some real problems, I have > digged through all > the (very little) docs and info I got from > serverworks back when, and > the only thing I can find is that the chips doesn't > support MSI in any > shape or fashion or it will do really strange > things. > Now on my system it seems to be disabled but I'm not > sure yet how its > determined to be that way. Would be worth for you > guys to check what the > sysctl's "hw.pci.enable_msi" and > "hw.pci.enable_msix" are set to. > I havn't looked into this yet, but I'm pretty sure > we added MSI support > in the 6.2 -> 7.0 timeframe, so that might have > uncovered this chipset > bug, and possibly the Promise data corruption one as > well. > > -Søren That was something that was suggested a while ago when I pointed out the linux disables MSI. It had no effect in our systems. Barney ____________________________________________________________________________________ Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs