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Date:	Wed, 21 Apr 2010 09:21:49 -0600
From:	Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@...com>
To:	Yinghai <yinghai.lu@...cle.com>
Cc:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org>,
	Andy Isaacson <adi@...apodia.org>, guenter.roeck@...csson.com,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"linux-pci@...r.kernel.org" <linux-pci@...r.kernel.org>,
	"x86@...nel.org" <x86@...nel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Thomas Renninger <trenn@...e.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] x86,pci,acpi: Handle invalid _CRS

On Tuesday 20 April 2010 11:35:59 pm Yinghai wrote:
> 
> Don't clear root bus resource too early, until We can make sure _CRS works

Please observe English conventions like capitalizing the first word
of a sentence (and not things like "We" in the middle) and using
a period at the end.

> also restore it, if all _CRS get rejected because of conflicts
> 
> Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>
> 
> ---
>  arch/x86/pci/acpi.c |   13 ++++++++++---
>  1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> Index: linux-2.6/arch/x86/pci/acpi.c
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6.orig/arch/x86/pci/acpi.c
> +++ linux-2.6/arch/x86/pci/acpi.c
> @@ -196,9 +196,6 @@ get_current_resources(struct acpi_device
>  	struct pci_root_info info;
>  	size_t size;
>  
> -	if (pci_use_crs)
> -		pci_bus_remove_resources(bus);
> -
>  	info.bridge = device;
>  	info.bus = bus;
>  	info.res_num = 0;
> @@ -217,10 +214,20 @@ get_current_resources(struct acpi_device
>  		goto name_alloc_fail;
>  	sprintf(info.name, "PCI Bus %04x:%02x", domain, busnum);
>  
> +	/* Only clear that when _CRS works for sure*/

If you put a comment here, please at least add a space before the
closing "*/".  Otherwise it looks sloppy.

> +	if (pci_use_crs)
> +		pci_bus_remove_resources(bus);
> +
>  	info.res_num = 0;
>  	acpi_walk_resources(device->handle, METHOD_NAME__CRS, setup_resource,
>  				&info);
>  
> +	if (pci_use_crs && !info.res_num) {
> +		/* Restore default one */
> +		bus->resource[0] = &ioport_resource;
> +		bus->resource[1] = &iomem_resource;

This is ugly because it just repeats this code from pci_create_bus(),
and there's no indication either here or there that they are connected.

Admittedly, I think it's also sort of ugly that pci_bus_remove_resources()
exists at all -- I'd rather have some sort of hook so we could set the
bus resources correctly the first time.

Maybe you could at least add a pci_bus_set_default_resources() that
could be called both here and from pci_create_bus().

Why are you doing this patch?  Did you see a machine where the host
bridge was left with no resources because of _CRS issues?  If so,
this patch feels like a band-aid.  I'd rather investigate the issue
directly, because that would probably be a Linux problem we could fix.

Also, if there *is* a reported problem, you should include a link to
the bugzilla or email thread.

Bjorn

> +	}
> +
>  	return;
>  
>  name_alloc_fail:
> 

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