linux-kernel - [PATCH] x86/PCI: never allocate PCI MMIO resources below BIOS

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Date:	Fri, 23 Apr 2010 17:05:24 -0600
From:	Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@...com>
To:	Andy Isaacson <adi@...apodia.org>,
	"R. Andrew Bailey" <bailey@...mai.com>
Cc:	Yinghai <yinghai.lu@...cle.com>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, 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>, yaneti@...lera.com
Subject: [PATCH] x86/PCI: never allocate PCI MMIO resources below BIOS_END

On Wednesday 21 April 2010 01:31:20 pm Andy Isaacson wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 10:33:50PM -0700, Yinghai wrote:
> > Update e820 at first, and later put them resource tree.
> > Reserved that early, will not be allocated to unassigned PCI BAR
> > 
> > v3: remove probe_roms() that is not needed, because whole range is reserved
> > 	 already
> 
> Test booted this patch series on the problematic t3400, seems to work
> fine.  dmesg attached to bug 15744.

Thanks for testing (again).  I'm not confident that this series is
going to be successful, so I started looking for other approaches.

I can't reproduce the exact problem you're seeing, but in my
kludged-up attempt, the patch below is enough to keep us from
assigning the space below 1MB to a device.

Would you guys (Andy & Andy, what a coincidence :-)) mind giving
it a try?  This is intended to work on top of current upstream,
with no other patches required.

Bjorn


commit 7fb707eb97fdf6dc4fa4b127f127f8d00223afc7
Author: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@...com>
Date:   Fri Apr 23 15:22:10 2010 -0600

x86/PCI: never allocate PCI MMIO resources below BIOS_END
    
When we move a PCI device or assign resources to a device not configured
by the BIOS, we want to avoid the BIOS region below 1MB.  Note that if the
BIOS places devices below 1MB, we leave them there.
    
See https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15744
and https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15841
    
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@...com>

diff --git a/arch/x86/pci/i386.c b/arch/x86/pci/i386.c
index 46fd43f..97da2ba 100644
--- a/arch/x86/pci/i386.c
+++ b/arch/x86/pci/i386.c
@@ -72,6 +72,9 @@ pcibios_align_resource(void *data, const struct resource *res,
 			return start;
 		if (start & 0x300)
 			start = (start + 0x3ff) & ~0x3ff;
+	} else if (res->flags & IORESOURCE_MEM) {
+		if (start < BIOS_END)
+			start = BIOS_END;
 	}
 	return start;
 }
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