Re: [Xen-devel] DL385 G2 - PCI-DMA: Random memory would be DMAed

[Mark Williamson <mark.williamson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for chiming in Mark, I was at a loss to suggest something specific!

> For some reason, your kernel is running with pci-gart.c
> enabled, and dom0 is trying to allocate DMA through the
> AGP GART in your AMD64 processor's Northbridge.  I
> didn't think Xen supported pci-gart, but maybe I missed
> a changeset.

Maybe a Gentoo-specific patch?

> At any rate, passing iommu=soft should disable the pci-gart
> and allow you to use bounce buffering.  Hopefully, that
> should clear up your problem.

If it does fix it, I'd suggest reporting it to the package maintainer.

Cheers,
Mark

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