On Wed, 27 Jan 2010 09:45:15 -0700 Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@xxxxxx> wrote: > On Tuesday 26 January 2010 03:57:31 pm Yinghai Lu wrote: > > [PATCH] x86/pci: don't use ioh resource if only have one ioh > > > > some system could use reosurce out of IOH resources when only one ioh is there. > > > > could be BIOS have wrong IOH resources and not enable them. > > The subtractive decode theory makes sense and would explain what's > happening, but I don't like this patch. > > If we assume that this really is a subtractive decode issue, this > patch approaches it the wrong way. We need to know whether a > particular host bridge is configured for subtractive decode. This > patch tests whether we have more than one host bridge, which is quite > a different question. > > Imagine these system configurations: > > 1) a single host bridge with subtractive decode > 2) a single host bridge with only positive decode > 3) multiple host bridges with subtractive decode enabled on one > 4) multiple host bridges with only positive decode > > This patch will break if we encounter configs 2 or 3. In config 2, > this patch assumes the bridge performs subtractive decode, so we > think the bridge forwards more address space than it actually does. > If we try to use that address space, the device will never see the > accesses. In config 3, this patch assumes there's no subtractive > decode, so we would see Jeff's problem all over again. Right, but OTOH: - multiple IOH has already been tested with the intel_bus.c code - we want to move to using _CRS data in these cases instead So do you have any objection to applying this patch for 2.6.33 and then moving away from intel_bus.c in .34 (assuming we can get _CRS working well on the same machines where intel_bus.c was needed)? -- Jesse Barnes, Intel Open Source Technology Center -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-testers" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
