linux-kernel - [PATCH] agp: ensure GART has an address before enabling it

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Date:	Mon, 31 Jan 2011 15:11:56 +0100
From:	Stephen Kitt <steve@....org>
To:	David Airlie <airlied@...ux.ie>
Cc:	Kulikov Vasiliy <segooon@...il.com>,
	Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@...com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: [PATCH] agp: ensure GART has an address before enabling it

Some BIOSs (eg. the AMI BIOS on the Asus P4P800 motherboard) don't
initialise the GART address, and pcibios_assign_resources() can ignore
it because it can be marked as a host bridge (see
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24392#c5 for
details). This was handled correctly up to 2.6.35, but the
pci_enable_device() cleanup in 2.6.36 means that the kernel tries to
enable the GART before assigning it an address; in such cases the GART
overlaps with other device assignments and ends up being disabled.

This patch fixes #24392.

Note that I imagine efficeon-agp.c probably has the same problem, but
I can't test that and I'd like to make sure this patch is suitable for
-stable (since 2.6.36 and 2.6.37 are affected).

Cc: <stable@...nel.org>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Kitt <steve@....org>
---
diff --git a/drivers/char/agp/intel-agp.c b/drivers/char/agp/intel-agp.c
index 857df10..b0a0dcc 100644
--- a/drivers/char/agp/intel-agp.c
+++ b/drivers/char/agp/intel-agp.c
@@ -774,20 +774,14 @@ static int __devinit agp_intel_probe(struct pci_dev *pdev,
 	dev_info(&pdev->dev, "Intel %s Chipset\n", intel_agp_chipsets[i].name);
 
 	/*
-	* If the device has not been properly setup, the following will catch
-	* the problem and should stop the system from crashing.
-	* 20030610 - hamish@....org
-	*/
-	if (pci_enable_device(pdev)) {
-		dev_err(&pdev->dev, "can't enable PCI device\n");
-		agp_put_bridge(bridge);
-		return -ENODEV;
-	}
-
-	/*
 	* The following fixes the case where the BIOS has "forgotten" to
 	* provide an address range for the GART.
 	* 20030610 - hamish@....org
+	* This happens before pci_enable_device() intentionally;
+	* calling pci_enable_device() before assigning the resource
+	* will result in the GART being disabled on machines with such
+	* BIOSs (the GART ends up with a BAR starting at 0, which
+	* conflicts a lot of other devices).
 	*/
 	r = &pdev->resource[0];
 	if (!r->start && r->end) {
@@ -798,6 +792,17 @@ static int __devinit agp_intel_probe(struct pci_dev *pdev,
 		}
 	}
 
+	/*
+	* If the device has not been properly setup, the following will catch
+	* the problem and should stop the system from crashing.
+	* 20030610 - hamish@....org
+	*/
+	if (pci_enable_device(pdev)) {
+		dev_err(&pdev->dev, "can't enable PCI device\n");
+		agp_put_bridge(bridge);
+		return -ENODEV;
+	}
+
 	/* Fill in the mode register */
 	if (cap_ptr) {
 		pci_read_config_dword(pdev,
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