linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/3] x86,pci,acpi: Handle invalid

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Date:	Wed, 21 Apr 2010 17:04:04 -0600
From:	Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@...com>
To:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Cc:	Yinghai Lu <yinghai.lu@...cle.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org>,
	Andy Isaacson <adi@...apodia.org>, guenter.roeck@...csson.com,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"linux-pci@...r.kernel.org" <linux-pci@...r.kernel.org>,
	"x86@...nel.org" <x86@...nel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Thomas Renninger <trenn@...e.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] x86,pci,acpi: Handle invalid _CRS

On Wednesday 21 April 2010 04:33:28 pm H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Do you have opinions on patches 1-2 of the series?
> 
> I'm getting concerned about how the size of the patchset has grown, and
> we're past -rc5 already... but it is a regression so we can't just defer
> it to .35.

Part 1: the essential part of this seems to be the trim_bios_range()
change, and that part is not too big.  In v4, Yinghai also removed
probe_roms_32.c.  That sounds like the right thing to do, but I'd
rather have that in separate patch so it doesn't obfuscate the other
change, and I don't know whether it *has* to be done for .34; maybe
it could be deferred.

Part 2: IMHO, we're putting way too much crap in kernel/resource.c.
A name like "reserve_region_with_split_check_child()" is a pretty
good clue that we've lost our way somewhere.  But that's mostly a
cosmetic thing, and the end result does seem to be something that
fixes the current regression.

So I guess that in spite of my issues with the implementation, I'm
still OK with the concept.

Bjorn
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