[ltp] x201s experience?

Yves-Alexis Perez linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Sat, 30 Jul 2011 11:58:20 +0200


On ven., 2011-07-29 at 16:18 -0700, Nathaniel Smith wrote:
> > As said somewhere else in the thread, Debian Sid. But I've found the
> > culprit, I use intel_iommu=3Don in order to activate the I/O MMU. I've
> > reported a bug (https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3D40332)
> but
> > it was marked as invalid. I cooked a patch which (for now) seem to
> work
> > so I'll submit it there.
>=20
> Hmm. I don't use that; my dmesg says
>   [    1.282462] PCI-DMA: Using software bounce buffering for IO
> (SWIOTLB)
> But like I said, I've still been seeing similar issues, which must
> have a different cause. So I'd be curious to know whether or not you
> still get crashes if you leave the iommu off. (And I've set up
> netconsole now too, thanks for the idea.)=20

My issues seem fixed using intel_iommu=3Doff or intel_iommu=3Don,igfx_off s=
o
yeah, it doesn't look like it's the same thing, sorry.

Regards,
--=20
Yves-Alexis