linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 02/11] PCI: Try to allocate mem64 above 4G at first

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Message-ID: <CAE9FiQX=ECg5BmKm7B2ua_rZ6bOsceeHNsfFQRWBbNZx+8sBfw@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Wed, 23 May 2012 11:40:46 -0700
From:	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Steven Newbury <steve@...wbury.org.uk>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Cc:	Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-pci@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/11] PCI: Try to allocate mem64 above 4G at first

On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 10:30 AM, Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org> wrote:
> On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 8:57 AM, Linus Torvalds
> <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
>> On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 11:34 PM, Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org> wrote:
>>> and will fall back to below 4g if it can not find any above 4g.
>>
>> Has this been tested on 32-bit machines without PAE? There might be
>> things that just happen to work because their allocations were always
>> done bottom-up.
>
> Good point. that problem should be addressed at first before this patch.

Just checked code for 32bit machines without PAE.

when X86_PAE is not set, phys_addr_t aka resource_size_t will be 32bit.
so in drivers/pci/bus.c::pci_bus_alloc_resource_fit()
will have bottom to 0.
    resource_size_t bottom = PCIBIOS_MAX_MEM_32 + 1ULL;
also in arch/x86/kernel/setup.c::setup_arch()
   iomem_resource.end = (1ULL << boot_cpu_data.x86_phys_bits) - 1;
will have iomem_resource.end to 0xffffffff

when X86_PAE is set, but CPU does not support PAE.
phys_addr_t aka resource_size_t will be 32bit.
so in drivers/pci/bus.c::pci_bus_alloc_resource_fit()
will have bottom to 4g.
    resource_size_t bottom = PCIBIOS_MAX_MEM_32 + 1ULL;
but
in arch/x86/kernel/setup.c::setup_arch()
   iomem_resource.end = (1ULL << boot_cpu_data.x86_phys_bits) - 1;
will have iomem_resource.end to 0xffffffff, because x86_phys_bits is 32 when PAE
is not detected in arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c::get_cpu_cap.
that mean first try will fail, so it will go to second try with bottom to 0.

so both case are safe with this patch.

Thanks

Yinghai
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