linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] PCI, ACPI, x86: update MMCFG information when hot-plugging PCI host bridges

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Date:	Wed, 11 Apr 2012 00:05:34 +0800
From:	Jiang Liu <liuj97@...il.com>
To:	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>
CC:	Kenji Kaneshige <kaneshige.kenji@...fujitsu.com>,
	Taku Izumi <izumi.taku@...fujitsu.com>,
	Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>,
	Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@...wei.com>,
	Keping Chen <chenkeping@...wei.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-pci@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] PCI, ACPI, x86: update MMCFG information when hot-plugging
 PCI host bridges

On 04/10/2012 11:47 PM, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 3:32 AM, Kenji Kaneshige
> <kaneshige.kenji@...fujitsu.com> wrote:
>> Additionally, I think there is a remaining issue even if we change
>> this check like below.
>>
>>
>>        if (!!(pci_probe & PCI_PROBE_MASK & ~PCI_PROBE_MMCONF))
>>                return 0;
>>
>> I think this check has an assumption that system has at least one
>> MCFG table entry and it has been initialized before
>> acpi_pci_root_add() is called. I think this doesn't work on the
>> system that doesn't have MCFG and all the pci root bridge have
>> _CBA (that is, all host bridges are hot-pluggable and BIOS is
>> implemented in the way PCI FW spec defines). As a result, MMCONFIG
>> would never be enabled on such systems. Could you double check this?
> 
> You are right.
> 
> We can just remove that checking.
> 
> But wonder if current x86_64 system support that.
> All peer root buses can be physically removed ?
It's theoretically possible that BIOS doesn't provide MMCFG or _CBA
for the legacy (non-removable bus 0) host bridge. 

> 
> Thanks
> 
> Yinghai

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