From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752035AbWFWUaw (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 Jun 2006 16:30:52 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752036AbWFWUaw (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 Jun 2006 16:30:52 -0400 Received: from mx2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:33677 "EHLO mx2.suse.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752035AbWFWUav (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 Jun 2006 16:30:51 -0400 From: Andi Kleen To: rajesh.shah@intel.com Subject: Re: [patch 2/2] x86_64 PCI: improve extended config space verification Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2006 22:30:36 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.3 Cc: gregkh@suse.de, akpm@osdl.org, brice@myri.com, 76306.1226@compuserve.com, arjan@linux.intel.com, linux-pci@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20060623200928.036235000@rshah1-sfield.jf.intel.com> <20060623201601.752629000@rshah1-sfield.jf.intel.com> In-Reply-To: <20060623201601.752629000@rshah1-sfield.jf.intel.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200606232230.36579.ak@suse.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Friday 23 June 2006 22:09, rajesh.shah@intel.com wrote: > Extend the verification for PCI-X/PCI-Express extended config > space pointer. This patch checks whether the MCFG address range > is listed as a motherboard resource, per the PCI firmware spec. > The old check only looked in int 15 e820 memory map, causing > several systems to fail the verification and lose extended > config space. By adding so much code to it you volunteered to factor the sanity check into a common i386/x86-64 file first. -Andi