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

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Date:	Mon, 26 Apr 2010 14:53:52 -0700
From:	Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org>
To:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Cc:	"Bjorn Helgaas" <bjorn.helgaas@...com>,
	"Andy Isaacson" <adi@...apodia.org>,
	"R. Andrew Bailey" <bailey@...mai.com>,
	"Yinghai" <yinghai.lu@...cle.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 14:44:50 -0700
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com> wrote:

> >
> > Agreed.  The trickier part is handling any platform devices that
> > request_resource against that space.  But maybe we don't need to do
> > anything special; just making sure we avoid it in the PCI "BIOS" code
> > as Bjorn did may be sufficient.
> >
> 
> Why is that hard?  If a platform device does a request_resource against
> that space, it's a request for specific address space and it should be
> granted.

I was thinking if we made it a special resource type we'd have to
change any platform drivers to use it; i.e. it wouldn't be
IORESOURCE_MEM or IORESOURCE_IO but IORESOURCE_DRAGONS.  That way it
wouldn't be part of the normal resource space.

But that's definitely overkill.  I think Bjorn's fix is sufficient.

-- 
Jesse Barnes, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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