Re: Linux 2.6.28-rc8

[Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>]

On Fri, 12 Dec 2008 08:11:35 -0800 (PST)
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:

> 
> 
> On Fri, 12 Dec 2008, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > 
> > another thing we could do is try to only warn if you cross bar
> > boundaries but not if you cross other user-of-the-resource
> > boundaries.
> 
> Hmm. We could use the res->flags for this. But I'm not sure non-PCI 
> resources fill those in correctly.
> 
> A pure "busy" allocation (ie a driver marker) would generally have
> just the IORESOURCE_BUSY bit set, while a real PCI hardware resource
> will have other bits set (ie the IORESOURCE_IO/MEM bits) and not be
> marked BUSY.
> 
> Maybe just ignoring resources with BUSY set, as they are driver
> markers rather than actual HW resources.

something like this: ?

From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2008 09:12:18 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] resource: Don't warn for driver originated resource structures

Some drivers (vesafb) only map/reserve a portion of a resource.
If then some other driver comes in and maps the whole resource,
the current code WARN_ON's. This is not the intent of the checks
in iomem_map_sanity_check(); rather these checks want to
warn when crossing *hardware* resources only.

This patch skips BUSY resources as suggested by Linus.

Note: having two drivers talk to the same hardware at the same
time is obviously not optimal behavior, but that's a separate story.

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
---
 kernel/resource.c |    9 +++++++++
 1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/resource.c b/kernel/resource.c
index 4337063..e633106 100644
--- a/kernel/resource.c
+++ b/kernel/resource.c
@@ -853,6 +853,15 @@ int iomem_map_sanity_check(resource_size_t addr, unsigned long size)
 		if (PFN_DOWN(p->start) <= PFN_DOWN(addr) &&
 		    PFN_DOWN(p->end) >= PFN_DOWN(addr + size - 1))
 			continue;
+		/*
+		 * if a resource is "BUSY", it's not a hardware resource
+		 * but a driver mapping of such a resource; we don't want
+		 * to warn for those; some drivers legitimately map only
+		 * partial hardware resources. (example: vesafb)
+		 */
+		if (p->flags & IORESOURCE_BUSY)
+			continue;
+
 		printk(KERN_WARNING "resource map sanity check conflict: "
 		       "0x%llx 0x%llx 0x%llx 0x%llx %s\n",
 		       (unsigned long long)addr,
-- 
1.6.0.4



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