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

[Bjorn Helgaas]

Yinghai, ping, do you have any more information about this?

On Tuesday 27 April 2010 09:11:10 am Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> On Monday 26 April 2010 07:41:55 pm Yinghai wrote:
> But let's double-check this:
> 
> > 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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