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IB/mlx4: Don't overwrite fast registration page list when posting work request

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The low-level mlx4 driver modified the page-list addresses for fast
register work requests post send to big-endian, and set a "present"
bit.  This caused problems later when the consumer attempted to unmap
the pages using the page-list (using the list addresses which were
assumed to be still in CPU-endian order).  Fix the mlx4 driver to
allocate two buffers and use a private buffer for the hardware-format
bus addresses.

This patch fixes <https://bugs.openfabrics.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1571>,
an NFS/RDMA server crash.  The cause of the crash was found by Vu Pham
of Mellanox.  The fix is along the lines suggested by Steve Wise in
comment #21 in bug 1571.

Signed-off-by: Jack Morgenstein <jackm@dev.mellanox.co.il>
Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
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Jack Morgenstein 2009-05-07 21:35:13 -07:00 • committed by Roland Dreier
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