Re: [RFC PATCH 1/1] PCI: skip release and reallocation of io port resources

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Thanks, that patch fixes the invalid memtype messages on boot and the
graphics performance.

On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 4:55 AM, Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Andrew, Can you check if this patch resolves your PAT issue?
>
> http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=127833440902862&w=2
>
> thanks,
> suresh
>
> On Wed, 2010-07-07 at 11:35 -0700, Jesse Barnes wrote:
>> This looks like a different issue, I think the PAT code tracks memtypes
>> like this.
>>
>> Suresh, any changes in this area that might explain this?
>>
>> Jesse
>>
>> On Wed, 7 Jul 2010 14:28:47 +1000
>> Andrew Hendry <andrew.hendry@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> > Is this the same or related issue?
>> >
>> > http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/7/6/108
>> > New messages since -rc4, X and graphics really slow after.
>> >
>> > [    1.387013] swapper:1 freeing invalid memtype bf788000-bf789000
>> > [    1.387409] swapper:1 freeing invalid memtype bf789000-bf78a000
>> > [    5.999675] modprobe:548 freeing invalid memtype d0000000-d0040000
>> > [    6.068347] modprobe:548 freeing invalid memtype d0140000-d0150000
>> > [    6.068647] modprobe:548 freeing invalid memtype d0150000-d0160000
>> > [    6.069661] modprobe:548 freeing invalid memtype d0170000-d01f0000
>> > [    6.085969] modprobe:548 freeing invalid memtype d01f0000-d0200000
>> > [    6.087673] modprobe:548 freeing invalid memtype d0210000-d0220000
>> > [    6.087900] modprobe:548 freeing invalid memtype d0220000-d0230000
>> > [    6.088092] modprobe:548 freeing invalid memtype d0230000-d0240000
>> > [    6.088317] modprobe:548 freeing invalid memtype d0240000-d0250000
>> >
>> >
>> > On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 10:49 AM, Yinghai Lu <yinghai@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > > On 07/06/2010 04:58 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>> > >> On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 4:13 PM, Yinghai Lu <yinghai@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > >>>
>> > >>> So you want to use pci=override_bios to reallocate all bios assigned resource include
>> > >>> peer root buses resources and pci bridge resource and pci devices BAR?
>> > >>
>> > >> In a perfect world, we'd never need this at all, but sicne that's not
>> > >> an option, the second-best alternative might be something like the
>> > >> following:
>> > >>
>> > >>   pci=override=off # default
>> > >>   pci=override=conflict # override only on conflicts
>> > >>   pci=override=<device> # clear BIOS allocations for <device> (and any
>> > >> children, if it's a bus)
>> > >
>> > > current:
>> > > if there is conflict, like pci bridge resources or pci devices resources is not in the scope of peer root bus resource range.
>> > > or pci devices is not in pci bridge resources range.
>> > > kernel would reject the resource and try to get new range in parent resource for the children.
>> > >
>> > > so current default is overriding the conflicts already.
>> > >
>> > > Maybe your conflicts have other meaning? like pci bridge resource size is not big enough?
>> > >
>> > > or we can have use
>> > >
>> > > pci=override=small_bridge
>> > >
>> > > or
>> > >
>> > > pci=override=bridges
>> > >
>> > > instead?
>> > >
>> > > Thanks
>> > >
>> > > Yinghai
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