Re: [PATCH] x86/PCI: never allocate PCI MMIO resources below BIOS_END

["H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>]

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The 1 MB range is only one case of a prereserved space.  It's special only in the sense that it is *always* reserved, even if the map doesn't mark it as such.  Fixed (or SMM-used) resources in reserved space above 1 MB are exactly the same issue.

"Jesse Barnes" <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org> wrote:

>On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 18:27:27 -0700 (PDT)
>Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
>> 
>> 
>> On Mon, 26 Apr 2010, Jesse Barnes wrote:
>> > 
>> > Glad we agree.  As I said (and echoing Bjorn), I think it would be best
>> > to reserve this space in a way that doesn't just use IORESOURCE_BUSY.
>> > We want and need to do allocations from the special region, so we
>> > should mark it as such.
>> 
>> I think Bjorn's patch to pcibios_align_resource() is really good and 
>> clever, and I think it should take care of the need for IORESOURCE_BUSY, 
>> no? We do want to let devices that are _already_ allocated there insert 
>> their resources, it's just that we never want to allocate new ones in the 
>> low 1M region.
>> 
>> Do we actually have a regression left with Bjorn's patch?
>
>No, I think we're covered.  But it sounded like Peter was also
>concerned about making new allocations from the 1M space, which would
>mean we'd need something other than the IORESOURCE_BUSY bit.  But maybe
>Bjorn's patch plus simply removing the IORESOURCE_BUSY line is
>sufficient for that.  The downside there is that it doesn't clearly
>communicate the special nature of the 1M region.
>
>-- 
>Jesse Barnes, Intel Open Source Technology Center

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