linux-kernel - Re: fixing "pci=use

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Message-ID: <86802c440909232142p3e5d4974g51eb519d5d0ef58e@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Wed, 23 Sep 2009 21:42:09 -0700
From:	Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@...il.com>
To:	Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@...com>
Cc:	Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@...inger.net>,
	Gary Hade <garyhade@...ibm.com>,
	Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org>,
	Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinder@...nel.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>, x86@...nel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: fixing "pci=use_crs"

On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 8:21 PM, Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@...com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-09-23 at 16:28 -0700, Yinghai Lu wrote:
>> On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 4:23 PM, Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@...com> wrote:
>
>> > P.S.  Yinghai, you posted some patches earlier dealing with "only one
>> > HT chain."  You apparently have some insight into what's going on here,
>> > but unfortunately, the changelogs mean absolutely nothing to me.  Can
>> > you give me any clues?
>>
>> which commit?
>>
>> normally we only need to have split root resource into several pieces
>> when we have two HT chains or other io chains...
>
> I meant the patches here:
>  http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/6/24/557
>
> My opinion is that ACPI is there to give us an abstract description of
> the machine, and we shouldn't have to introduce knowledge like "this
> machine has two HT chains" or add checks in amd_bus.c about
> "pci_root_num <= 1".
>
> But maybe if I knew what an HT chain was and why you think it affects
> the description returned by _CRS, it would give me a clue about how to
> deal with this in a generic way.

we could use _CRS, but lots of BIOS just provide messed up resources
in _CRS to OS.

for example, the HW conf register does have mmio high range there, but
_CRS doesn't report them.

thought we can use whilelist to use _CRS for them.

YH
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