On Mon, 14 Feb 2011 17:43:20 -0800 Ram Pai <linuxram@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Linux tries to pre-allocate minimal resources to hotplug bridges. This > works fine as long as there are enough resources to satisfy all other > genuine resource requirements. However if enough resources are not > available to satisfy any of these nice-to-have pre-allocations, the > resource-allocator reports errors and returns failure. > > This patch distinguishes between must-have resource from nice-to-have > resource. Any failure to allocate nice-to-have resources are ignored. > > This behavior can be particularly useful to trigger automatic > reallocation when the OS discovers genuine allocation-conflicts > or genuine unallocated-requests caused by buggy allocation behavior > of the native BIOS/uEFI. > > https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15960 captures the movitation > behind the patch. This patch is verified to resolve the above bug. Ok, applied this series. Everyone please test thoroughly as resource changes always seem to bite us. -- Jesse Barnes, Intel Open Source Technology Center -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-pci" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
