linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] x86: use PCI method for enabling AMD extended config space before MSR method

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Date:	Fri, 7 Jan 2011 13:58:18 +0100
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Robert Richter <robert.richter@....com>
Cc:	Jan Beulich <JBeulich@...ell.com>,
	"tglx@...utronix.de" <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	"hpa@...or.com" <hpa@...or.com>,
	"Herrmann3, Andreas" <Andreas.Herrmann3@....com>,
	"Roedel, Joerg" <Joerg.Roedel@....com>,
	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: use PCI method for enabling AMD extended config
 space before MSR method


* Robert Richter <robert.richter@....com> wrote:

> On 06.01.11 18:20:04, Robert Richter wrote:
> > On 06.01.11 11:57:35, Jan Beulich wrote:
> > > While both methods should work equivalently well for the native case,
> > > the Xen Dom0 case can't reliably work with the MSR one, since there's
> > > no guarantee that the virtual CPUs it has available fully cover all
> > > necessary physical ones.
> > > 
> > > As per the suggestion of Robert Richter the patch only adds the PCI
> > > method, but leaves the MSR one as a fallback to cover new systems the
> > > PCI IDs of which may not have got added to the code base yet.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@...ell.com>
> > > Cc: Robert Richter <robert.richter@....com>
> > > Cc: Joerg Roedel <Joerg.Roedel@....com>
> > > Cc: Andreas Herrmann <Andreas.Herrmann3@....com>
> > > Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>
> > > 
> > > ---
> > >  arch/x86/include/asm/amd_nb.h |    7 ++++++
> > >  arch/x86/kernel/amd_nb.c      |    7 ++++++
> > >  arch/x86/kernel/aperture_64.c |   44 +++++++++++++++---------------------------
> > >  arch/x86/pci/amd_bus.c        |   30 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> > >  4 files changed, 60 insertions(+), 28 deletions(-)
> 
> Btw, the patch should be relative to tip/x86/amd-nb as there would be
> conflicts otherwise due to other changes.

that's upstream meanwhile, so a patch against -git or -tip would suffice.

Thanks,

	Ingo
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