Re: [RESEND PATCH v2 1/4] PCI: Ignore resource_alignment if PCI_PROBE_ONLY was set\\

Yongji Xie
2016-06-21T08:38:53Z

On 2016/6/21 10:16, Yongji Xie wrote:

> On 2016/6/21 9:43, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Jun 02, 2016 at 01:46:48PM +0800, Yongji Xie wrote:
>>> The resource_alignment will releases memory resources allocated
>>> by firmware so that kernel can reassign new resources later on.
>>> But this will cause the problem that no resources can be
>>> allocated by kernel if PCI_PROBE_ONLY was set, e.g. on pSeries
>>> platform because PCI_PROBE_ONLY force kernel to use firmware
>>> setup and not to reassign any resources.
>>>
>>> To solve this problem, this patch ignores resource_alignment
>>> if PCI_PROBE_ONLY was set.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Yongji Xie <xyjxie@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
>>> ---
>>> drivers/pci/pci.c | 6 ++++++
>>> 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/drivers/pci/pci.c b/drivers/pci/pci.c
>>> index c8b4dbd..a259394 100644
>>> --- a/drivers/pci/pci.c
>>> +++ b/drivers/pci/pci.c
>>> @@ -4761,6 +4761,12 @@ static resource_size_t
>>> pci_specified_resource_alignment(struct pci_dev *dev)
>>> spin_lock(&resource_alignment_lock);
>>> p = resource_alignment_param;
>>> while (*p) {
>>> + if (pci_has_flag(PCI_PROBE_ONLY)) {
>>> + printk(KERN_ERR "PCI: Ignore resource_alignment
>>> parameter: %s with PCI_PROBE_ONLY set\n",
>>> + p);
>>> + *p = 0;
>>> + break;
>> Wouldn't it be simpler to make pci_set_resource_alignment_param() fail
>> if PCI_PROBE_ONLY is set?
>
> I add the check here because I want to print some logs so that users
> could know the reason why resource_alignment doesn't work when
> they add this parameter.
>
> Thanks,
> Yongji
>

Sorry, please ignore the previous reply. I didn't add this check in
pci_set_resource_alignment_param() because PCI_PROBE_ONLY
may be set after we parse "resource_alignment".

And it seems that printk_once() may be better here so that
we don't need to set *p = 0.

Thanks,
Yongji

>>> + }
>>> count = 0;
>>> if (sscanf(p, "%d%n", &align_order, &count) == 1 &&
>>> p[count] == '@') {
>>> --
>>> 1.7.9.5
>>>
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