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

[Yinghai <yinghai.lu@oracle.com>]

On 04/26/2010 01:37 PM, Jesse Barnes wrote:
> On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 14:27:56 -0600
>> I think it also leads to at least one problem: Guenter's machine has no
>> VGA but has a PCI device that lives at 0xa0000.  The driver for that
>> device won't be able to request that region if the arch code has marked
>> it busy.
> 
> Ah good point, so we'll want another approach at any rate.  Yinghai?

With current linus's tree, there is some difference between mmio > 1M and MMIO < 1M.

Actually it does not care about E820_RESERVED for > 1M range, because it doesn't have _BUSY.

For < 1M range, 
a. MMIO is not with E820_RESERVED, the device driver will work.
b. MMIO is with E820_RESERVED, the device driver can not reserve it's mmio later. because that MMIO could have parent resource with "reserved" name and _BUSY flag

My patch -v3 will break a.
but my patch -v4 patch will make it work.

but looks -v4 is too tricky.

maybe we just need remove change like following.

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/e820.c b/arch/x86/kernel/e820.c
index 7bca3c6..9849824 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/e820.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/e820.c
@@ -1094,7 +1094,7 @@ void __init e820_reserve_resources(void)
 		 * pci device BAR resource and insert them later in
 		 * pcibios_resource_survey()
 		 */
-		if (e820.map[i].type != E820_RESERVED || res->start < (1ULL<<20)) {
+		if (e820.map[i].type != E820_RESERVED) {
 			res->flags |= IORESOURCE_BUSY;
 			insert_resource(&iomem_resource, res);
 		}

May need Linus to ack it.

Those strange devices could be some kind of virtual debug devices. and they like to use those low mmio range.

YH