Re: [RESEND PATCH v2 1/4] PCI: Ignore resource_alignment if PCI_PROBE_ONLY was set\\

From: Bjorn Helgaas
Date: Mon Jun 20 2016 - 21:46:15 EST


On Thu, Jun 02, 2016 at 01:46:48PM +0800, Yongji Xie wrote:
> The resource_alignment will releases memory resources allocated
> by firmware so that kernel can reassign new resources later on.
> But this will cause the problem that no resources can be
> allocated by kernel if PCI_PROBE_ONLY was set, e.g. on pSeries
> platform because PCI_PROBE_ONLY force kernel to use firmware
> setup and not to reassign any resources.
>
> To solve this problem, this patch ignores resource_alignment
> if PCI_PROBE_ONLY was set.
>
> Signed-off-by: Yongji Xie <xyjxie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/pci/pci.c | 6 ++++++
> 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/pci/pci.c b/drivers/pci/pci.c
> index c8b4dbd..a259394 100644
> --- a/drivers/pci/pci.c
> +++ b/drivers/pci/pci.c
> @@ -4761,6 +4761,12 @@ static resource_size_t pci_specified_resource_alignment(struct pci_dev *dev)
> spin_lock(&resource_alignment_lock);
> p = resource_alignment_param;
> while (*p) {
> + if (pci_has_flag(PCI_PROBE_ONLY)) {
> + printk(KERN_ERR "PCI: Ignore resource_alignment parameter: %s with PCI_PROBE_ONLY set\n",
> + p);
> + *p = 0;
> + break;

Wouldn't it be simpler to make pci_set_resource_alignment_param() fail
if PCI_PROBE_ONLY is set?

> + }
> count = 0;
> if (sscanf(p, "%d%n", &align_order, &count) == 1 &&
> p[count] == '@') {
> --
> 1.7.9.5
>
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