Re: [PATCH 0/5 v2] PCI: fix cardbus and sriov regressions

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On Sat, Jul 02, 2011 at 12:07:48AM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Thu, 2011-06-30 at 16:47 -0700, Ram Pai wrote:
> > The following patch-set fixes regressions caused by:
> > 
> > the commit "PCI: update bridge resources to get more big ranges when allocating space (again)"
> > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=da7822e5ad71ec9b745b412639f1e5e0ba795a20
> > 
> > patch 1/5: fix calculation of additional resource size for hotplug bridges
> > patch 2/5: ability to resize assigned pci-resource
> > patch 3/5: make SRIOV BARs resources optional
> > patch 4/5: make cardbus bridge resources optional
> > patch 5/5: code and terminology cleanup
> > 
> > The regression was caused on some platforms with limited i/o and memory
> > resources, the optional resources were allocated ahead of required resources,
> > thus starving the latter. The patchset ensures that all the required resources
> > are satisfied before any optional resources are satisfied.
> 
> This certainly fixes the problem I originally reported: all the basic
> BARs for devices with SR-IOV enabled are mapped.
> 
> When testing this, I noticed that a BAR which we fail to allocate space
> for may be left configured with an address range that overlaps that of
> other BARs.  However, that does not appear to be a regression.

overlaps the other SRIOV BARs of the same device?

Can you send me the dmesg output?
RP
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