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SubjectRe: sata_sil24: swiotlb buffer is full ?
Hello,

On Sat, Oct 29, 2016 at 11:40:29PM -0400, Andrew Ryder wrote:
> I have some disks attached to a "Silicon Image, Inc. SiI 3124 PCI-X Serial
> ATA Controller" and it repeatedly locks up the system with the message
> whenever there is heavy disk i/o. The system the controller is attached to
> is a via EPIA-M910 board.
>
> sata_sil24: 0000:06:03.0: swiotlb buffer is full: 65536 bytes)
> DMA: Out of SW-IOMMU space for 65536 bytes at device .."
> sata_sil24 0000:06:03.0: swiotlb buffer is full (sz: 65536 bytes .."
>
> For the past week I have been running with two additional boot parameters
> (iommu=allowdac swiotlb=131072) which seem to have solved the issue, but I
> was curious if this is a driver bug or not?

(cc'ing swiotbl maintainer, hi!)

That looks like iotlb area running out. I don't think there's much to
be done from driver side and we've traditionally been pretty bad at
handling iotlb errors. Konrad, do you have any ideas?

Thanks.

--
tejun

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