Re: [Patch v2] Make PCI extended config space (MMCONFIG) a driver opt-in

Matthew Wilcox
2008-01-11T21:18:06Z

On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 01:12:12PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
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> On Fri, 11 Jan 2008, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
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> > But they can't. We limit the size they can access to 256 bytes, unless
> > the kernel probed address 256 and it worked.
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> Umm. Probing address 256 (or *any* address) using MMCONFIG will simply
> lock up the machine. HARD.

Did I miss a bug report? The only problems I'm currently aware of are
the ones where using MMCONFIG during BAR probing causes a hard lockup on
some Intel machines, and the ones where we get bad config data on some
AMD machines due to the configuration retry status being mishandled.

All the other lockups I'm aware of are already handled by the existing
checks.

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