Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v8] hw/arm/virt: Add high MMIO PCI region, 512G in size

[Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>]

On 3 October 2015 at 19:04, Peter Crosthwaite
<crosthwaitepeter@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 5:13 PM, Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> wrote:
>> On 4 September 2015 at 00:13, Pavel Fedin <p.fedin@samsung.com> wrote:
>>> Peter Maydell wrote:
>>>> Did you report the bug where the pci controller driver
>>>> fails to start if the second region is out of its range
>>>> to the kernel mailing list? (It would be nice to be able
>>>> to point to a kernel patch in the changelog too.)
>>>
>>>  I didn't yet, because have to time to retest it. Well, OK, will
>>> do it.
>>
>> Nudge -- have you reported this as a kernel bug against the
>> PCI generic driver yet?
>>
>
> So the use case that causes this bug is very vanilla (I just got bit).
> Can we reverse the default of the highmem switch so the unmodified
> command line continues to work?

That would then mean we practically never would use the
highmem window, and we'd have to tell everybody "you need
to use this extra weird command line option", which I don't
like.

Once again: has anybody reported this as a kernel bug?

thanks
-- PMM