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

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

Never mind, for 2.6.34 your patch should be good enough.

On 04/28/2010 09:07 AM, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> Yinghai, ping, do you have any more information about this?
>
> On Tuesday 27 April 2010 09:11:10 am Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
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>> On Monday 26 April 2010 07:41:55 pm Yinghai wrote:
>> But let's double-check this:
>>
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>>> also find one AMD system:
>>> [    7.056011] pci_root PNP0A03:00: host bridge window [mem 0xfed20000-0xffffffff]
>>> ...
>>> pci assign unassign code could use range like [mem 0xfed20000-0xffffffff] wrongly.
>>>       
>> I agree, it's very unlikely that it's safe to put PCI devices all the
>> way up to 0xffffffff.  I suspect this might be fixed by d558b483d5a,
>> which computes the end of the bridge window using _MAX rather than _LEN.
>>
>> See https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15480#c15 for an example
>> similar to the one above: we originally thought the window was
>> [mem 0xcff00000-0xffffffff], but d558b483d5a changes that to
>> [mem 0xcff00000-0xfebfffff], which matches what Windows found.
>>
>> Yinghai, can you take a look at your AMD system again with a kernel that
>> includes d558b483d5a, and see whether we still have a problem?  If we
>> *do* still have a problem, please open a bugzilla and attach a dmesg log
>> with ACPI resource info collected with the debug patch here:
>> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15533#c5
>>
>> Bjorn
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