Re: PCI error on x86_64 2.6.13 kernel

[Voluspa]

On Fri, 18 Nov 2005 17:18:40 -0800 Greg KH wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 18, 2005 at 08:04:40AM +0100, Voluspa wrote:
> > 
> > On 2005-11-18 0:24:51 Rajesh Shah wrote:
> > >On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 11:06:05PM +0200, Niklas Kallman wrote:
> > >>Jack Howarth wrote:
> > >>> Has anyone reported the following? For both of the 2.6.13 based
> > >>> kernels released so far on Fedora Core 4 for x86_64, we are seeing
> > >>> error messages of the form...
> > >>> 
> > >>> Oct  3 11:21:48 XXXXX  kernel:   MEM window: d0200000-d02fffff
> > >>> Oct  3 11:21:48 XXXXX  kernel:   PREFETCH window: disabled.
> > >>> Oct  3 11:21:48 XXXXX  kernel: PCI: Failed to allocate mem resource #6:20000 \
> > >>> f0000000 for 0000:09:00.0 
> > >
> > >I ran into a similar problem, and posted a fix, see
> > >http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-pci&m=113225006603745&w=2
> > >
> > >Can you try it to see if this problem goes away?
> > 
> > Even though your patch touched arch/i386/pci/i386.c I tried it in my pure AMD64
> > environment. No luck... I remember when this PCI error turned up, but since it
> > was non-fatal I shrugged it off. Early 2.6.13 it was. Booting back on my
> > non-distro, plain kernel.org notebook I indeed see that 2.6.11.11 and 2.6.12
> > are fine.
> 
> Others are reporting this problem too.
> 
> Is there any way you could be able to run 'git bisect' between 2.6.12
> and 2.6.13 to try to find the offending changeset?  I would really
> appreciate it.

I have to do all the groundwork first (getting git, some dataset, read an howto),
but I'll try to return with some answers by weekend's end or Monday morning. If I fail,
the pointer will be the oldfashioned -rcX is Ok but -rcY not.

Mvh
Mats Johannesson
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