3.16.37-rc1 review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael.j.wysocki@xxxxxxxxx> commit 86314751c7945fa0c67f459beeda2e7c610ca429 upstream. Roland Dreier reports that one of his systems cannot boot because of the changes made by commit ac212b6980d8 (ACPI / processor: Use common hotplug infrastructure). The problematic part of it is the request_region() call in acpi_processor_get_info() that used to run at module init time before the above commit and now it runs much earlier. Unfortunately, the region(s) reserved by it fall into a range the PCI subsystem attempts to reserve for AHCI IO BARs. As a result, the PCI reservation fails and AHCI doesn't work, while previously the PCI reservation would be made before acpi_processor_get_info() and it would succeed. That request_region() call, however, was overlooked by commit ac212b6980d8, as it is not necessary for the enumeration of the processors. It only is needed when the ACPI processor driver actually attempts to handle them which doesn't happen before loading the ACPI processor driver module. Therefore that call should have been moved from acpi_processor_get_info() into that module. Address the problem by moving the request_region() call in question out of acpi_processor_get_info() and use the observation that the region reserved by it is only needed if the FADT-based CPU throttling method is going to be used, which means that it should be sufficient to invoke it from acpi_processor_get_throttling_fadt(). Fixes: ac212b6980d8 (ACPI / processor: Use common hotplug infrastructure) Reported-by: Roland Dreier <roland@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Tested-by: Roland Dreier <roland@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/acpi/acpi_processor.c | 9 --------- drivers/acpi/processor_throttling.c | 9 +++++++++ 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/acpi/acpi_processor.c +++ b/drivers/acpi/acpi_processor.c @@ -311,15 +311,6 @@ static int acpi_processor_get_info(struc pr->throttling.duty_width = acpi_gbl_FADT.duty_width; pr->pblk = object.processor.pblk_address; - - /* - * We don't care about error returns - we just try to mark - * these reserved so that nobody else is confused into thinking - * that this region might be unused.. - * - * (In particular, allocating the IO range for Cardbus) - */ - request_region(pr->throttling.address, 6, "ACPI CPU throttle"); } /* --- a/drivers/acpi/processor_throttling.c +++ b/drivers/acpi/processor_throttling.c @@ -680,6 +680,15 @@ static int acpi_processor_get_throttling if (!pr->flags.throttling) return -ENODEV; + /* + * We don't care about error returns - we just try to mark + * these reserved so that nobody else is confused into thinking + * that this region might be unused.. + * + * (In particular, allocating the IO range for Cardbus) + */ + request_region(pr->throttling.address, 6, "ACPI CPU throttle"); + pr->throttling.state = 0; duty_mask = pr->throttling.state_count - 1; -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html