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

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Date:	Mon, 26 Apr 2010 18:27:27 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org>
cc:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	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,
	"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, Jesse Barnes wrote:
> 
> Glad we agree.  As I said (and echoing Bjorn), I think it would be best
> to reserve this space in a way that doesn't just use IORESOURCE_BUSY.
> We want and need to do allocations from the special region, so we
> should mark it as such.

I think Bjorn's patch to pcibios_align_resource() is really good and 
clever, and I think it should take care of the need for IORESOURCE_BUSY, 
no? We do want to let devices that are _already_ allocated there insert 
their resources, it's just that we never want to allocate new ones in the 
low 1M region.

Do we actually have a regression left with Bjorn's patch?

		Linus
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