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+Release Date : Fri May 19 09:31:45 EST 2006 - Seokmann Ju <sju@lsil.com>
+Current Version : 2.20.4.9 (scsi module), 2.20.2.6 (cmm module)
+Older Version : 2.20.4.8 (scsi module), 2.20.2.6 (cmm module)
+
+1. Fixed a bug in megaraid_init_mbox().
+ Customer reported "garbage in file on x86_64 platform".
+ Root Cause: the driver registered controllers as 64-bit DMA capable
+ for those which are not support it.
+ Fix: Made change in the function inserting identification machanism
+ identifying 64-bit DMA capable controllers.
+
+ > -----Original Message-----
+ > From: Vasily Averin [mailto:vvs@sw.ru]
+ > Sent: Thursday, May 04, 2006 2:49 PM
+ > To: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org; Kolli, Neela; Mukker, Atul;
+ > Ju, Seokmann; Bagalkote, Sreenivas;
+ > James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com; devel@openvz.org
+ > Subject: megaraid_mbox: garbage in file
+ >
+ > Hello all,
+ >
+ > I've investigated customers claim on the unstable work of
+ > their node and found a
+ > strange effect: reading from some files leads to the
+ > "attempt to access beyond end of device" messages.
+ >
+ > I've checked filesystem, memory on the node, motherboard BIOS
+ > version, but it
+ > does not help and issue still has been reproduced by simple
+ > file reading.
+ >
+ > Reproducer is simple:
+ >
+ > echo 0xffffffff >/proc/sys/dev/scsi/logging_level ;
+ > cat /vz/private/101/root/etc/ld.so.cache >/tmp/ttt ;
+ > echo 0 >/proc/sys/dev/scsi/logging
+ >
+ > It leads to the following messages in dmesg
+ >
+ > sd_init_command: disk=sda, block=871769260, count=26
+ > sda : block=871769260
+ > sda : reading 26/26 512 byte blocks.
+ > scsi_add_timer: scmd: f79ed980, time: 7500, (c02b1420)
+ > sd 0:1:0:0: send 0xf79ed980 sd 0:1:0:0:
+ > command: Read (10): 28 00 33 f6 24 ac 00 00 1a 00
+ > buffer = 0xf7cfb540, bufflen = 13312, done = 0xc0366b40,
+ > queuecommand 0xc0344010
+ > leaving scsi_dispatch_cmnd()
+ > scsi_delete_timer: scmd: f79ed980, rtn: 1
+ > sd 0:1:0:0: done 0xf79ed980 SUCCESS 0 sd 0:1:0:0:
+ > command: Read (10): 28 00 33 f6 24 ac 00 00 1a 00
+ > scsi host busy 1 failed 0
+ > sd 0:1:0:0: Notifying upper driver of completion (result 0)
+ > sd_rw_intr: sda: res=0x0
+ > 26 sectors total, 13312 bytes done.
+ > use_sg is 4
+ > attempt to access beyond end of device
+ > sda6: rw=0, want=1044134458, limit=951401367
+ > Buffer I/O error on device sda6, logical block 522067228
+ > attempt to access beyond end of device
+
Release Date : Mon Apr 11 12:27:22 EST 2006 - Seokmann Ju <sju@lsil.com>
Current Version : 2.20.4.8 (scsi module), 2.20.2.6 (cmm module)
Older Version : 2.20.4.7 (scsi module), 2.20.2.6 (cmm module)