Re: Error assigning BAR 0 to hotplugged device

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On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 6:00 PM, Chuck Tuffli <ctuffli@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 4:47 PM, Yinghai Lu <yinghai@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> ...
>> in the tree:
>>    80:03.0 ==> 96:00.0 ==> 97:08.0 ==> 98:00.0 ==> 99:00.0 ==> 9a:00.0
>> ==> 9b:15.0
>>
>> only 97:08.0 and 99:00.0 is hotplug+.
>>
>> and kernel will honor BIOS set value at first, and realloc will only work on
>> unassigned/invalid assigned BARs. and hpmem_size will be only treated at
>> optional size even on hotplug slots.
>
> Does this mean the only time the kernel will re-allocate the BARs and
> use hpmemsize is if they have the value 0x0? If so, does realloc have
> any limitations with respect to where in the tree the invalid BAR
> exists? In my example, could realloc fix 80:03.0? 9b:15.0?

the problem is 9b:15.0 is not hotplugable, when a5:00.0 is not
inserted into the slot,
realloc will not pre-reserve range for 9b:15.0.

> If the BIOS doesn't allocate enough memory mapped IO resources for
> devices, it sounds like the kernel can't really fix this problem,
> right?

Yes. You need to fix BIOS at first.

So it will be final products or just development prototype?

Yinghai
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