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Message-Id: <1189668286.18361.3.camel@sli10-conroe.sh.intel.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2007 15:24:46 +0800
From: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@...el.com>
To: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@....cx>
Cc: lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
linux-pci <linux-pci@...ey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH]PCI:disable resource decode in PCI BAR detection
On Thu, 2007-09-13 at 01:31 -0600, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 02:21:07PM +0800, Shaohua Li wrote:
> > http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8833
> > We write 0xffffffff to BARs to detect BAR size, this will change BAR
> > base to 0xfxxxxxx depends on BAR size. In the bug, PCI MCFG base address
> > is 0xf4000000. One PCI device (gfx) has a 256M BAR, the detection code
> > will temprarily change it to 0xf0000000, so conflict with MCFG decode
> > range. Later memory based config space read/write address is decoded by
> > both MCH and gfx and cause a hang. This patch disables resource decode
> > in BAR size detection to avoid resource conflict.
>
> You missed the part where we have to avoid doing this for host bridges ...
>
> http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=118809338631160&w=2
>
> (I believe it's now queued in Greg's tree, and possibly Andrew's tree
> too)
Hmm, I don't know there is already a fix for this, so waste a whole
morning :(. yes, your patch looks better.
Thanks,
Shaohua
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