Re: [PATCH PING] Fix coalescing of host bridge windows in arch/x86/pci/acpi.c

[Alexey Neyman]

[Resending without HTML part - sorry for possible duplicates]

As requested by Peter, resending the patch with ACPI/x86 maintainers CC'ed.

Short description:
Make coalesce_windows() handle multiple resource overlaps.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Neyman <stilor@xxxxxxx>

Regards,
Alexey.

On Monday, September 16, 2013 07:31:58 PM Peter Hurley wrote:
> [ +cc Bjorn Helgaas, Rafael Wysocki, linux-acpi ]
> 
> On 09/16/2013 12:41 PM, Alexey Neyman wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > Could anybody review/commit the patch?
> 
> LKML is a pretty general list and maintainers don't typically
> trawl the list for more work to do. The get_maintainer script
> can be used to help determine to whom to address a patch.
> 
> peter@thor:~/src/kernels/next$ ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl -f
> arch/x86/pci/acpi.c Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> (maintainer:X86
> ARCHITECTURE...) Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> (maintainer:X86
> ARCHITECTURE...)
> "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> (maintainer:X86 ARCHITECTURE...)
> x86@xxxxxxxxxx (maintainer:X86 ARCHITECTURE...)
> Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@xxxxxxxxxx> (commit_signer:5/8=62%)
> "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael.j.wysocki@xxxxxxxxx> (commit_signer:3/8=38%)
> Feng Tang <feng.tang@xxxxxxxxx> (commit_signer:1/8=12%)
> Yijing Wang <wangyijing@xxxxxxxxxx> (commit_signer:1/8=12%)
> Mike Yoknis <mike.yoknis@xxxxxx> (commit_signer:1/8=12%)
> linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (open list)
> 
> Regards,
> Peter Hurley
> 
> PS - You'll want to inline your patch as well because as you can see
> replies don't include it.
> 
> > Regards,
> > Alexey.
> > 
> > On Thursday, September 12, 2013 05:19:16 pm Alexey Neyman wrote:
> >> Hi all,
> >> 
> >> I have a board with a BIOS bug that reports the following I/O port
> >> regions
> >> in _CRS on one of the host bridges:
> >> 
> >> 0x0000-0x03af // #0
> >> 0x03e0-0x0cf7 // #1
> >> 0x03b0-0x03bb // #2
> >> 0x03c0-0x03df // #3
> >> 0x0000-0xdfff // #4
> >> 0xf000-0xffff // #5
> >> 
> >> Obviously, region number #4 is erroneous as it overlaps with regions
> >> #0..3.
> >> However, code in coalesce_windows() in arch/x86/pci/acpi.c attempts to
> >> recover from such kind of BIOS bugs by merging the overlapping regions.
> >> Current code expands region #0 to 0x0000-0xdffff and makes region #4
> >> ignored. As a result, overlap of the expanded region #0 with regions
> >> #1..3
> >> remains undetected. As a result, regions #1..3 are inserted into the
> >> resource tree as if they were consumers of the 0x0000-0xdfff regions, and
> >> devices that have resources in one of these regions (e.g. 0x3f6 for
> >> legacy
> >> IDE) have a resource conflict - the kernel does not initialize them.
> >> 
> >> The attached patch makes the code in coalesce_windows() instead ignore
> >> res1
> >> (which is already dealt with), possibly expanding res2 instead. As res2
> >> has
> >> not been reached in the outer loop in coalesce_windows(), the code will
> >> then check for overlaps of the just-expanded resource with the rest of
> >> the
> >> resources.
> >> 
> >> Regards,
> >> Alexey.--- arch/x86/pci/acpi.c.orig	2013-09-12 16:23:06.113813150 -0700
+++ arch/x86/pci/acpi.c	2013-09-12 16:23:56.605813117 -0700
@@ -357,12 +357,12 @@
 			 * the kernel resource tree doesn't allow overlaps.
 			 */
 			if (resource_overlaps(res1, res2)) {
-				res1->start = min(res1->start, res2->start);
-				res1->end = max(res1->end, res2->end);
+				res2->start = min(res1->start, res2->start);
+				res2->end = max(res1->end, res2->end);
 				dev_info(&info->bridge->dev,
 					 "host bridge window expanded to %pR; %pR ignored\n",
-					 res1, res2);
-				res2->flags = 0;
+					 res2, res1);
+				res1->flags = 0;
 			}
 		}
 	}