RE: the imfamous asix ax88179 iommu error

2017-10-06 Thread David Laight
> >> It appears that my ax88179 is working just fine now with the vendor > >> driver. So perhaps it's possible to revert the old commit in the linux > >> kernel and allow the use of scatter gather ? (perhaps for non-intel > >> hosts ? I'm not sure if this device is effected by intel xhci errata) >

Re: the imfamous asix ax88179 iommu error

2017-10-06 Thread Robin Murphy
On 06/10/17 13:14, Robin Murphy wrote: > Hi Will, > > On 06/10/17 01:19, Will Trives wrote: >> Hello, >> >> Just reporting that it looks like this patch may fix the error (so >> people having issues with VIA controller hosts may also want to try it): >> >> https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/piperma

Re: the imfamous asix ax88179 iommu error

2017-10-06 Thread Robin Murphy
Hi Will, On 06/10/17 01:19, Will Trives wrote: > Hello, > > Just reporting that it looks like this patch may fix the error (so > people having issues with VIA controller hosts may also want to try it): > > https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/iommu/2017-September/024371.html > > It appea

Re: the imfamous asix ax88179 iommu error

2017-10-05 Thread Greg KH
On Fri, Oct 06, 2017 at 11:29:19AM +1100, Will Trives wrote: > sorry, I mean this commit: > > commit469d417b68958a064c09e7875646c97c6e783dfc > > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=469d417b68958a064c09e7875646c97c6e783dfc revert the revert? Plea

Re: the imfamous asix ax88179 iommu error

2017-10-05 Thread Will Trives
sorry, I mean this commit: commit 469d417b68958a064c09e7875646c97c6e783dfc https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=469d417b68958a064c09e7875646c97c6e783dfc -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to ma

Re: the imfamous asix ax88179 iommu error

2017-10-05 Thread Will Trives
Hello, Just reporting that it looks like this patch may fix the error (so people having issues with VIA controller hosts may also want to try it): https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/iommu/2017-September/024371.html It appears that my ax88179 is working just fine now with the vendor driv

the imfamous asix ax88179 iommu error

2017-09-28 Thread Will Trives
Hello, I just saw a post about VIA controllers triggering IOMMU errors. Just want to also point out that the ax88179 will also trigger PTE read errors when using the vendor's driver. I'm nowhere near an expert but I remember seeing that 'TD fragment' is supported now or some such, which I take