[regression] 2.6.37-rc1: Freeze while booting on HP nx6325

[Grzegorz Chwesewicz <grzegorz.chwesewicz@retis.net.pl>]

Hi, I have a problem with 2.6.37-rc1. My HP nx6325 freezes during boot.
It happens after printing lines:

[    0.298457] atiixp 0000:00:14.1: not 100% native mode: will probe
irqs later
[    0.298515]     ide0: BM-DMA at 0x7040-0x7047
[    0.298573] atiixp 0000:00:14.1: simplex device: DMA disabled
[    0.298625] ide1: DMA disabled
<Freeze>

This didn't happen in 2.6.36. I bisected between 2.6.36 and 2.6.37-rc1:

1af3c2e45e7a641e774bbb84fa428f2f0bf2d9c9 is the first bad commit
commit 1af3c2e45e7a641e774bbb84fa428f2f0bf2d9c9
Author: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Date:   Tue Oct 26 15:41:54 2010 -0600

    x86: allocate space within a region top-down

    Request that allocate_resource() use available space from high addresses
    first, rather than the default of using low addresses first.

    The most common place this makes a difference is when we move or assign
    new PCI device resources.  Low addresses are generally scarce, so it's
    better to use high addresses when possible.  This follows Windows
practice
    for PCI allocation.

    Reference: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16228#c42
    Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
    Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>

Reverting above patch from latest linus-tree resolves problem.

My lspci:

00:00.0 Host bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 Host Bridge (rev 10)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 PCI Bridge
00:04.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 PCI Bridge
00:05.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 PCI Bridge
00:06.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 PCI Bridge
00:12.0 IDE interface: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 Serial ATA
Controller (rev 80)
00:13.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 USB Host
Controller (rev 80)
00:13.1 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 USB Host
Controller (rev 80)
00:13.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 USB2 Host
Controller (rev 80)
00:14.0 SMBus: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 SMBus Controller (rev 82)
00:14.1 IDE interface: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 IDE Controller
(rev 80)
00:14.2 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB4x0 High Definition
Audio Controller (rev 01)
00:14.3 ISA bridge: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 PCI-ISA Bridge (rev 80)
00:14.4 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 PCI-PCI Bridge (rev 80)
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron]
HyperTransport Technology Configuration
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron]
Address Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron]
DRAM Controller

00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron]
Miscellaneous Control

01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RS482 [Radeon
Xpress 200M]

02:01.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5788
Gigabit Ethernet (rev 03)

02:04.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCIxx12 Cardbus Controller


02:04.1 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments PCIxx12 OHCI Compliant
IEEE 1394 Host Controller

02:04.2 Mass storage controller: Texas Instruments 5-in-1 Multimedia
Card Reader (SD/MMC/MS/MS PRO/xD)

02:04.3 SD Host controller: Texas Instruments PCIxx12 SDA Standard
Compliant SD Host Controller

03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8169
Gigabit Ethernet (rev 10)

30:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11a/b/g
(rev 01)

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Greetings
Grzegorz Chwesewicz
mailto:grzegorz.chwesewicz@retis.net.pl