Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S934473AbaGOXkP (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jul 2014 19:40:15 -0400 Received: from mail-ie0-f182.google.com ([209.85.223.182]:38641 "EHLO mail-ie0-f182.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933923AbaGOXkI (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jul 2014 19:40:08 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <20140710200527.GA15190@google.com> <3524198.dm6HbYTJqK@calvin> Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2014 16:40:07 -0700 X-Google-Sender-Auth: fufG2avVUcvmZ6G2XxjHOCWoxHo Message-ID: Subject: Re: WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 1 at arch/x86/mm/ioremap.c:171 __ioremap_caller+0x290/0x2fa() From: Yinghai Lu To: Bjorn Helgaas , "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Fabio Coatti , Stephane Eranian , Peter Zijlstra , Greg Kroah-Hartman , LKML , "mingo@elte.hu" , Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo , "ak@linux.intel.com" , "Yan, Zheng" , "Rafael J. Wysocki" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 1:33 PM, Bjorn Helgaas wrote: > [+cc Yinghai, Rafael] > >>> http://pastebin.com/FiL7N64b >> >> I opened this bugzilla: >> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=80041 and attached your >> dmesg to it. I see what the problem is, but I don't have a good idea >> yet for how to fix it. >> >> The problem is that we don't handle e820 and PNP device resource >> information correctly. From the attached dmesg, we have this: >> >> BIOS-e820: [mem 0x00000000fed10000-0x00000000fed13fff] reserved >> system 00:00: [mem 0xfed10000-0xfed17fff] could not be reserved >> >> The 00:00 PNP device describes the correct 32K range for the Intel MCH >> (see [1] for details). But the [mem 0xfed10000-0xfed13fff] entry from >> e820 was added to the resource map first, and it covers only the first >> 16K of the MCH range. This caused the subsequent PNP reservation to >> fail. Then the snb_uncore_imc_init_box() reservation caused the >> warning, because it would be a child of the e820 entry but it covers >> more space. >> >> [1] fixed a similar issue where the PNP device described only the >> first 16K of the MCH range. This case is slightly different because >> here it's the e820 entry that is incorrect. >> >> [1] http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=cb171f7abb9a > > One of the reasons for iomem_resource is so we don't hand out the same > address space to two different devices. We *could* do that by keeping > track of the union of all devices and reserved areas that we know > about. > > But the current resource code is more strict: it enforces a hierarchy. > For example, in this case, it rejects the 00:00 PNP resource because > it is larger than the e820 entry. The problem with rejecting it is > that we might hand out [mem 0xfed14000-0xfed17fff] to another device > even though PNP told us that it's in use. > > I'm about to head out for a few weeks of vacation, so I won't be able > to do anything with this. In that case, we could reserve the whole MCH range in e820 from trim_snb_memory() instead. HPA, what is your idea about it? Yinghai -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/