Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Wed, 17 Jan 2007 14:46:01 -0500 (EST) | | From | Chip Coldwell <> | | Subject | Re: data corruption with nvidia chipsets and IDE/SATA drives (k8 cpu errata needed?) |
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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
-- Charles M. "Chip" Coldwell Senior Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc 978-392-2426
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