linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Update MMCONFIG resource insertion to check against e820 map.

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Message-Id: <200611081625.35318.ak@suse.de>
Date:	Wed, 8 Nov 2006 16:25:35 +0100
From:	Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>
To:	"Aaron Durbin" <adurbin@...gle.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, "Matthew Wilcox" <matthew@....cx>,
	"Jeff Chua" <jeff.chua.linux@...il.com>, discuss@...-64.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Update MMCONFIG resource insertion to check against e820 map.

On Tuesday 07 November 2006 21:49, Aaron Durbin wrote:
> Check to see if MMCONFIG region is marked as reserved in the e820 map
> before inserting the MMCONFIG region into the resource map. If the region
> is not entirely marked as reserved in the e820 map attempt to find a region
> that is. Only insert the MMCONFIG region into the resource map if there was
> a region found marked as reserved in the e820 map.  This should fix a known
> regression in 2.6.19 by not reserving all of the I/O space on misconfigured
> systems.

I added the patch. Thanks

-Andi
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