Date:	Fri, 17 Sep 2010 16:32:06 -0600
From:	Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@...com>
To:	Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org>
Cc:	Brian Bloniarz <phunge0@...mail.com>,
	Charles Butterfield <charles.butterfield@...tcentury.com>,
	Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@...hat.com>,
	linux-pci@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Stefan Becker <chemobejk@...il.com>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Subject: [PATCH v2 0/4] PCI: allocate space top-down, not bottom-up

When we move PCI devices, we currently allocate space bottom-up, i.e., we look
at PCI bus resources in the order we found them, we look at gaps between child
resources bottom-up, and we align the new space at the bottom of an available
region.

On x86, we move PCI devices more than we used to because we now pay attention
to the PCI host bridge windows from ACPI.  For example, when we find a device
that's outside all the known host bridge windows, we try to move it into a
window, and we look for space starting at the bottom.

Windows does similar device moves, but it looks for space top-down rather than
bottom-up.  Since most machines are better-tested with Windows than Linux, this
difference means that Linux is more likely to trip over BIOS bugs in the PCI
host bridge window descriptions than Windows is.

We've had several reports of Dell machines where the BIOS leaves the AHCI
controller outside the host bridge windows (BIOS bug #1), *and* the lowest
host bridge window includes an area that doesn't actually reach PCI (BIOS
bug #2).  The result is that Windows (which moves AHCI to the top of a window)
works fine, while Linux (which moves AHCI to the bottom, buggy, area) doesn't
work.

These patches change Linux to allocate space more like Windows does:

    1) The x86 pcibios_align_resource() will choose space from the
       end of an available area, not the beginning.

    2) In the generic allocate_resource() path, we'll look for space
       between existing children from the top, not from the bottom.

    3) When pci_bus_alloc_resource() looks for available space, it
       will start from the highest window, not the first one we found.

This series fixes a 2.6.34 regression that prevents many Dell Precision
workstations from booting:

    https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16228

Changes from v1 to v2:
    - Moved check for allocating before the available area from
      pcibios_align_resource() to find_resource().  Better to do it
      after the alignment callback is done, and make it generic.
    - Fixed pcibios_align_resource() alignment.  If we start from the
      end of the available area, we must align *downward*, not upward.
    - Fixed pcibios_align_resource() ISA alias avoidance.  Again, since
      the starting point is the end of the area, we must align downward
      when we avoid aliased areas.

---

Bjorn Helgaas (4):
      resources: ensure alignment callback doesn't allocate below available start
      x86/PCI: allocate space from the end of a region, not the beginning
      resources: allocate space within a region from the top down
      PCI: allocate bus resources from the top down


 arch/x86/pci/i386.c |   18 ++++++++++++-----
 drivers/pci/bus.c   |   53 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
 kernel/resource.c   |   50 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------------
 3 files changed, 92 insertions(+), 29 deletions(-)
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