linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] x86/PCI: Ignore E820 reservations for bridge windows on newer systems

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Message-ID: <7545b263-b1a4-1c85-7f88-674ae0bb87ac@canonical.com>
Date:   Tue, 12 Oct 2021 11:22:01 +0800
From:   Hui Wang <hui.wang@...onical.com>
To:     Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@...ux.intel.com>,
        Hans de Goede <hdegoede@...hat.com>
Cc:     "Rafael J . Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>,
        Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>,
        Myron Stowe <myron.stowe@...hat.com>,
        Juha-Pekka Heikkila <juhapekka.heikkila@...il.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        "H . Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, linux-pci@...r.kernel.org,
        x86@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Benoit Grégoire <benoitg@...us.ca>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] x86/PCI: Ignore E820 reservations for bridge windows
 on newer systems


On 10/11/21 9:53 PM, Mika Westerberg wrote:
> Hi Hans,
>
> On Mon, Oct 11, 2021 at 11:05:31AM +0200, Hans de Goede wrote:
>> Some BIOS-es contain a bug where they add addresses which map to system RAM
>> in the PCI bridge memory window returned by the ACPI _CRS method, see
>> commit 4dc2287c1805 ("x86: avoid E820 regions when allocating address
>> space").
>>
>> To avoid this Linux by default excludes E820 reservations when allocating
>> addresses since 2010. Windows however ignores E820 reserved regions for PCI
>> mem allocations, so in hindsight Linux honoring them is a problem.
>>
>> Recently (2020) some systems have shown-up with E820 reservations which
>> cover the entire _CRS returned PCI bridge memory window, causing all
>> attempts to assign memory to PCI BARs which have not been setup by the BIOS
>> to fail. For example here are the relevant dmesg bits from a
>> Lenovo IdeaPad 3 15IIL 81WE:
>>
>> [    0.000000] BIOS-e820: [mem 0x000000004bc50000-0x00000000cfffffff] reserved
>> [    0.557473] pci_bus 0000:00: root bus resource [mem 0x65400000-0xbfffffff window]
>>
>> Ideally Linux would fully stop honoring E820 reservations for PCI mem
>> allocations, but then the old systems this was added for will regress.
>> Instead keep the old behavior for old systems, while ignoring the E820
>> reservations like Windows does for any systems from now on.
>>
>> Old systems are defined here as BIOS year < 2018, this was chosen to
>> make sure that pci_use_e820 will not be set on the currently affected
>> systems, while at the same time also taking into account that the
>> systems for which the E820 checking was orignally added may have
>> received BIOS updates for quite a while (esp. CVE related ones),
>> giving them a more recent BIOS year then 2010.
>>
>> Also add pci=no_e820 and pci=use_e820 options to allow overriding
>> the BIOS year heuristic.
>>
>> BugLink: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=206459
>> BugLink: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1868899
>> BugLink: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1871793
>> BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1878279
>> BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1931715
>> BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1932069
>> BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1921649
>> Cc: Benoit Grégoire <benoitg@...us.ca>
>> Cc: Hui Wang <hui.wang@...onical.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@...hat.com>
> Thanks for fixing this! Few comments below. Otherwise looks good,
>
> Reviewed-by: Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@...ux.intel.com>
>
Thanks for fixing this! We almost reach a solution. :-)

Thanks,

Hui.