Re: 2.6.33: pci 0000:00:00.0: address space collision / spontaenous reboots [full dmesg]

[Yinghai Lu]

On 03/12/2010 12:34 PM, Justin Piszcz wrote:
> 
> 
> On Fri, 12 Mar 2010, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> 
>> On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 12:02 PM, Justin Piszcz
>> <jpiszcz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, 12 Mar 2010, Yinghai Lu wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 5:10 AM, Justin Piszcz
>>>> <jpiszcz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> [    0.112379] pci 0000:00:00.0: reg 1c: [mem 0xe0000000-0xffffffff
>>>>> 64bit]
>>>>
>>>>> [    0.133510] PCI: pci_cache_line_size set to 64 bytes
>>>>> [    0.133515] pci 0000:00:00.0: BAR 3: reserving [mem
>>>>> 0xe0000000-0xffffffff
>>>>> flags 0x120204] (d=0, p=0)
>>>>> [    0.133518] pci 0000:00:00.0: address space collision: [mem
>>>>> 0xe0000000-0xffffffff 64bit] already in use
>>>>> [    0.133522] pci 0000:00:00.0: can't reserve [mem
>>>>> 0xe0000000-0xffffffff
>>>>> 64bit]
>>>>> [    0.137020] system 00:09: [mem 0xe0000000-0xefffffff] has been
>>>>> reserved
>>>>> [    0.172034] pci_bus 0000:00: resource 0 [io  0x0000-0xffff]
>>>>> [    0.172035] pci_bus 0000:00: resource 1 [mem 0x00000000-0xffffffff]
>>>>
>>>> looks like the silicon report wrong size in that BAR3
>>>>
>>>> YH
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Is there anyway to work around this?  Or is it a bad motherboard?
>>>
>>
>> maybe one new BIOS could hide that register
> Hi,
> 
> It is using the latest F8c BIOS:
> http://www.gigabyte.us/Products/Motherboard/Products_Overview.aspx?ProductID=3007
> 
> 
> Other (earlier) bios' have been tested, that did not help either.
> 
> Is there anyway to to the kernel not to touch that range of memory?
> 0xe0000000-0xffffffff?

kernel doesn't touch that BAR. just set the res start to 0, but later it doesn't try to get one for it. because pci 00:00.0 is one hostbridge.

YH

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