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Date:	Sat, 27 Jun 2009 11:42:15 +0200
From:	Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@...uu.se>
To:	Grant Grundler <grundler@...isc-linux.org>
Cc:	Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@...uu.se>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-pci@...r.kernel.org, hpa@...or.com
Subject: Re: [BUG 2.6.31-rc1] HIGHMEM64G causes hang in PCI init on 32-bit
	x86

Grant Grundler writes:
 > On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 03:13:52AM +0200, Mikael Pettersson wrote:
 > > Mikael Pettersson writes:
 > ...
 > >  > CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU          6600  @ 2.40GHz stepping 06
 > >  > Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
 > >  > PCI: PCI BIOS revision 3.00 entry at 0xf0031, last bus=2
 > ...
 > >  > pci 0000:00:1e.0: transparent bridge
 > >  > pci 0000:00:1f.0: PIIX/ICH IRQ router [8086:2810]
 > >  > 
 > >  > At this point the kernel hangs hard until rebooted.
 > 
 > ...
 > > I've now identified commit 95ee14e4379c5e19c0897c872350570402014742
 > > "x86: cap iomem_resource to addressable physical memory" by hpa (cc:d)
 > > as the culprit. Reverting it fixes my boot hang.
 > 
 > Mikael,
 > thanks for tracking this down...can you dump the value of c->x86_phys_bits
 > please?

Sure. This is from 2.6.31-rc1 with the commit commented out and
replaced by a debug printk:

identify_cpu: ->x86_phys_bits == 36, would change iomem_resource.end from 0xffffffffffffffff to 0x0000000fffffffff

which looks correct for HIGHMEM64G.
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