Re: [PATCH 0/4] i2o: Use pci_bus_alloc_resource()

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 12:08 PM, Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> i20 currently uses pci_find_parent_resource() followed by
> allocate_resource() to allocate PCI space.  The problem is that this won't
> work reliably because before we allocate the space, we don't know its
> address, and therefore we can't find the parent resource.  Even if we know
> the *type* of space we want, in some cases there are multiple possibilities
> (root buses with multiple apertures to them, prefetchable or
> non-prefetchable apertures, etc.)
>
> This changes it to use pci_bus_alloc_resource(), which takes care of those
> details.
>
> This also fixes some things that look like copy/paste errors, e.g., trying
> to allocate an I/O space with 1MB alignment.
>
> I don't have hardware to test these changes, but I don't think these
> allocation paths actually worked before, this shouldn't be any worse than
> what we have today.
>
> ---
>
> Bjorn Helgaas (4):
>       i2o: Fix I/O space allocation copy/paste error
>       i2o: Fix I/O space alignment requirement
>       i2o: Refactor i2o_iop_systab_set() PCI space allocation
>       i2o: Use pci_bus_alloc_resource(), not allocate_resource() directly
>
>
>  drivers/message/i2o/iop.c |   85 ++++++++++++++++++++++-----------------------
>  1 file changed, 42 insertions(+), 43 deletions(-)

I applied these to pci/resource for v3.15.
--
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




[Index of Archives]     [DMA Engine]     [Linux Coverity]     [Linux USB]     [Video for Linux]     [Linux Audio Users]     [Yosemite News]     [Linux Kernel]     [Linux SCSI]     [Greybus]

  Powered by Linux