Re: [PATCH] pci: pciehp update the slot bridge res to get big range for pcie devices

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Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> Yinghai Lu <yinghai@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>> after closing look up the code, it looks it will not break your setup.
>>
>> 1. before the patches:
>> a. when master card is inserted, all bridge in that card will get assigned with min_size
>> b. when new cards is inserted to those slots in master card, will get assigned in the bridge size.
>>
>> 2. after the patches: v5
>> a. booted up, all leaf bridge mmio get clearred.
>> b. when master card is inserted, all bridge in that card will get assigned with min_size, and master bridge will be sum of them
>> c. when new cards is inserted to those slots in master card, will get assigned in the bridge size.
>>
>> can you check those two patches in your setup to verify it?
> 
> I have a much simpler case I will break, as I tried something similar by accident.
which kernel version?
> 
> AMD cpu MCP55 with one pcie port setup as hotplug.
> The system only has 2GB of RAM.  So plenty of space for pcie devices.

one or two ht chains?

do you still have lspci -tv with it?

> 
> If the firmware assigns nothing and linux at boot time assigns the pci mmio space:
> Reads from the bar of the hotplugged device work
> Writes to the bar of the hotplugged device, cause further writes to go to lala land.
> 
> So I had to have the firmware make the assignment, because only it knows the
> details of the hidden AMD bar registers for each hypertransport chain etc.

that mean kernel doesn't get peer root bus res probed properly


YH
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