linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] PCI: Do not touch siblings in pci_assign_unassigned_bridge

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Date:	Tue, 17 Jun 2014 16:39:12 -0700
From:	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>
To:	Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>
Cc:	Andreas Noever <andreas.noever@...il.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-pci@...r.kernel.org" <linux-pci@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] PCI: Do not touch siblings in pci_assign_unassigned_bridge_resources

On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 3:16 PM, Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com> wrote:
> [+cc Yinghai]
>
> On Mon, Jun 09, 2014 at 10:45:30PM +0200, Andreas Noever wrote:
>> The problem can be reproduced by having two sibling hotplug bridges A
>> and B. The problem will occour if the parent of A and B does not have
>> enough resources to satisfy window allocations for B during a hotplug
>> event.

> I don't understand how all this works either.  Yinghai?
>
> We definitely don't want to release resources that are already in use.  Can
> you review and ack or nack this?

Hi Andreas,

Can you check if attached patch fix the problem on your test case?

In some case, if we can not assign pref mmio properly for the bridge,
we may need to even clear non-pref mmio for the bridge.

Thanks

Yinghai

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