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DateWed, 17 Jan 2007 14:46:01 -0500 (EST)
FromChip Coldwell <>
SubjectRe: data corruption with nvidia chipsets and IDE/SATA drives (k8 cpu errata needed?)
On Wed, 17 Jan 2007, Chip Coldwell wrote:

> On Wed, 17 Jan 2007, Andi Kleen wrote:
>
>> On Wednesday 17 January 2007 07:31, Chris Wedgwood wrote:
>>> On Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 08:52:32PM +0100, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote:
>>>> I agree,... it seems drastic, but this is the only really secure
>>>> solution.
>>>
>>> I'd like to here from Andi how he feels about this? It seems like a
>>> somewhat drastic solution in some ways given a lot of hardware doesn't
>>> seem to be affected (or maybe in those cases it's just really hard to
>>> hit, I don't know).
>>
>> AMD is looking at the issue. Only Nvidia chipsets seem to be affected,
>> although there were similar problems on VIA in the past too.
>> Unless a good workaround comes around soon I'll probably default
>> to iommu=soft on Nvidia.
>>
>
> We've just verified that configuring the graphics aperture to be
> write-combining instead of write-back using an MTRR also solves the
> problem. It appears to be a cache incoherency issue in the graphics
> aperture.

I take it back. Further testing has revealed that this does not solve
the problem.

Chip

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Charles M. "Chip" Coldwell
Senior Software Engineer
Red Hat, Inc
978-392-2426

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