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There was an issue in the data structure defined by megaraid driver
casuing "kernel unaligned access.." messages to be displayed during
IOCTL on IA64 platform.

The issue has been reported/fixed by Sakurai Hiroomi
[[email protected]].

Signed-Off By: Seokmann Ju <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <[email protected]>
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Ju, Seokmann authored and James Bottomley committed Jul 28, 2006
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55 changes: 55 additions & 0 deletions Documentation/scsi/ChangeLog.megaraid
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@@ -66,6 +66,61 @@ Older Version : 2.20.4.8 (scsi module), 2.20.2.6 (cmm module)
Fix: MegaRAID F/W has fixed the problem and being process of release,
soon. Meanwhile, driver will filter out the request.

3. One of member in the data structure of the driver leads unaligne
issue on 64-bit platform.
Customer reporeted "kernel unaligned access addrss" issue when
application communicates with MegaRAID HBA driver.
Root Cause: in uioc_t structure, one of member had misaligned and it
led system to display the error message.
Fix: A patch submitted to community from following folk.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Sakurai Hiroomi
> Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2006 4:20 AM
> To: [email protected]; [email protected]
> Subject: Re: Help: strange messages from kernel on IA64 platform
>
> Hi,
>
> I saw same message.
>
> When GAM(Global Array Manager) is started, The following
> message output.
> kernel: kernel unaligned access to 0xe0000001fe1080d4,
> ip=0xa000000200053371
>
> The uioc structure used by ioctl is defined by packed,
> the allignment of each member are disturbed.
> In a 64 bit structure, the allignment of member doesn't fit 64 bit
> boundary. this causes this messages.
> In a 32 bit structure, we don't see the message because the allinment
> of member fit 32 bit boundary even if packed is specified.
>
> patch
> I Add 32 bit dummy member to fit 64 bit boundary. I tested.
> We confirmed this patch fix the problem by IA64 server.
>
> **************************************************************
> ****************
> --- linux-2.6.9/drivers/scsi/megaraid/megaraid_ioctl.h.orig
> 2006-04-03 17:13:03.000000000 +0900
> +++ linux-2.6.9/drivers/scsi/megaraid/megaraid_ioctl.h
> 2006-04-03 17:14:09.000000000 +0900
> @@ -132,6 +132,10 @@
> /* Driver Data: */
> void __user * user_data;
> uint32_t user_data_len;
> +
> + /* 64bit alignment */
> + uint32_t pad_0xBC;
> +
> mraid_passthru_t __user *user_pthru;
>
> mraid_passthru_t *pthru32;
> **************************************************************
> ****************

Release Date : Mon Apr 11 12:27:22 EST 2006 - Seokmann Ju <[email protected]>
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)
4 changes: 4 additions & 0 deletions drivers/scsi/megaraid/megaraid_ioctl.h
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@@ -132,6 +132,10 @@ typedef struct uioc {
/* Driver Data: */
void __user * user_data;
uint32_t user_data_len;

/* 64bit alignment */
uint32_t pad_for_64bit_align;

mraid_passthru_t __user *user_pthru;

mraid_passthru_t *pthru32;
2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion drivers/scsi/megaraid/megaraid_mm.c
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@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
* 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
*
* FILE : megaraid_mm.c
* Version : v2.20.2.6 (Mar 7 2005)
* Version : v2.20.2.7 (Jul 16 2006)
*
* Common management module
*/
4 changes: 2 additions & 2 deletions drivers/scsi/megaraid/megaraid_mm.h
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@@ -27,9 +27,9 @@
#include "megaraid_ioctl.h"


#define LSI_COMMON_MOD_VERSION "2.20.2.6"
#define LSI_COMMON_MOD_VERSION "2.20.2.7"
#define LSI_COMMON_MOD_EXT_VERSION \
"(Release Date: Mon Mar 7 00:01:03 EST 2005)"
"(Release Date: Sun Jul 16 00:01:03 EST 2006)"


#define LSI_DBGLVL dbglevel

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