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

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Date:	Mon, 26 Apr 2010 12:31:35 -0700
From:	Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org>
To:	Andy Isaacson <adi@...apodia.org>
Cc:	Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@...com>,
	"R. Andrew Bailey" <bailey@...mai.com>,
	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: Re: [PATCH] x86/PCI: never allocate PCI MMIO resources below
 BIOS_END

On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 11:34:36 -0700
Andy Isaacson <adi@...apodia.org> wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 05:05:24PM -0600, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Works for me.  dmesg at
> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/attachment.cgi?id=26150

Great, thanks for testing.  Applied this one to my for-linus tree.  I
still thing Yinghai's patches should go in as well (marking regions as
busy seems like good housekeeping), but with this fixed they're a better
fit for -next.

Thanks,
-- 
Jesse Barnes, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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