On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 11:40:46AM -0700, Yinghai Lu wrote: > On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 10:30 AM, Yinghai Lu <yinghai@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 8:57 AM, Linus Torvalds > > <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 11:34 PM, Yinghai Lu <yinghai@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >>> and will fall back to below 4g if it can not find any above 4g. > >> > >> Has this been tested on 32-bit machines without PAE? There might be > >> things that just happen to work because their allocations were always > >> done bottom-up. > > > > Good point. that problem should be addressed at first before this patch. > > Just checked code for 32bit machines without PAE. > > when X86_PAE is not set, phys_addr_t aka resource_size_t will be 32bit. > so in drivers/pci/bus.c::pci_bus_alloc_resource_fit() > will have bottom to 0. > resource_size_t bottom = PCIBIOS_MAX_MEM_32 + 1ULL; > also in arch/x86/kernel/setup.c::setup_arch() > iomem_resource.end = (1ULL << boot_cpu_data.x86_phys_bits) - 1; > will have iomem_resource.end to 0xffffffff > > when X86_PAE is set, but CPU does not support PAE. > phys_addr_t aka resource_size_t will be 32bit. I think you meant phys_addr_t and resource_size_t will be *64* bit when X86_PAE is set. Obvious to you, but quite confusing to non-x86 experts like me :) > so in drivers/pci/bus.c::pci_bus_alloc_resource_fit() > will have bottom to 4g. > resource_size_t bottom = PCIBIOS_MAX_MEM_32 + 1ULL; > but > in arch/x86/kernel/setup.c::setup_arch() > iomem_resource.end = (1ULL << boot_cpu_data.x86_phys_bits) - 1; > will have iomem_resource.end to 0xffffffff, because x86_phys_bits is 32 when PAE > is not detected in arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c::get_cpu_cap. > that mean first try will fail, so it will go to second try with bottom to 0. > > so both case are safe with this patch. I don't really like the dependency on PCIBIOS_MAX_MEM_32 + 1ULL overflowing to zero -- that means the reader has to know what the value of PCIBIOS_MAX_MEM_32 is, and things would break in non-obvious ways if we changed it. What do you think of a patch like the following? It makes it explicit that we can only allocate space the CPU can address. commit feded2ae21d6160292726ccd5128080d42395be4 Author: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu May 24 22:15:26 2012 -0600 PCI: try to allocate 64-bit resources above 4GB If we have a 64-bit resource, try to allocate it above 4GB first. If that fails, either because there's no space or the CPU can't address space above 4GB (iomem_resource.end is the highest address the CPU supports), we'll fall back to allocating space below 4GB. diff --git a/drivers/pci/bus.c b/drivers/pci/bus.c index 4ce5ef2..2c56693 100644 --- a/drivers/pci/bus.c +++ b/drivers/pci/bus.c @@ -121,14 +121,18 @@ pci_bus_alloc_resource(struct pci_bus *bus, struct resource *res, { int i, ret = -ENOMEM; struct resource *r; - resource_size_t max = -1; + resource_size_t start = 0; + resource_size_t end = PCIBIOS_MAX_MEM_32; type_mask |= IORESOURCE_IO | IORESOURCE_MEM; - /* don't allocate too high if the pref mem doesn't support 64bit*/ - if (!(res->flags & IORESOURCE_MEM_64)) - max = PCIBIOS_MAX_MEM_32; + /* If this is a 64-bit resource, prefer space above 4GB */ + if (res->flags & IORESOURCE_MEM_64) { + start = PCIBIOS_MAX_MEM_32 + 1ULL; + end = iomem_resource.end; + } +again: pci_bus_for_each_resource(bus, r, i) { if (!r) continue; @@ -145,12 +149,18 @@ pci_bus_alloc_resource(struct pci_bus *bus, struct resource *res, /* Ok, try it out.. */ ret = allocate_resource(r, res, size, - r->start ? : min, - max, align, + max(start, r->start ? : min), + end, align, alignf, alignf_data); if (ret == 0) - break; + return 0; } + + if (start != 0) { + start = 0; + goto again; + } + return ret; } -- 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