Re: [PATCH 6/6] x86/PCI: quirk Thunderbolt PCI-to-PCI bridges

From: Yinghai Lu
Date: Thu Jun 27 2013 - 13:18:26 EST


On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 9:27 AM, Mika Westerberg
<mika.westerberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 04:54:05PM +0300, Mika Westerberg wrote:
>> I think that we can get this working so that we add a new flag to struct
>> pci_dev, something like 'no_additional_hotplug_bus_space' and in this quirk
>> set that.
>>
>> Then in __pci_bus_size_bridges() we do:
>>
>> pci_bridge_check_ranges(bus);
>> if (bus->self->is_hotplug_bridge &&
>> !bus->self->no_additional_hotplug_bus_space) {
>> additional_io_size = pci_hotplug_io_size;
>> additional_mem_size = pci_hotplug_mem_size;
>> }
>>
>> This should prevent the problem this patch was trying to solve. Does that
>> work for you?
>
> Forget about that -- It looks like these messages are harmless:
>
> pcieport 0000:0a:05.0: BAR 8: can't assign mem (size 0x200000)
> pcieport 0000:0a:05.0: BAR 9: can't assign mem pref (size 0x200000)
>
> It just means that we tried to allocate the resource but failed because the
> bridge has that window closed, if I got it right. If user doesn't want to
> see those, he/she can always pass 'pci=hpmensize=0,hpiosize=0' in the
> kernel command line.

Yes, that extra range for hotplug is optional, so if must+optional
fails, second try
will be must only.

>
> With pcibios_resource_survey_bus() fix, looks like this quirk is not needed
> at all.

Good.
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