Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1762297AbYGOUyx (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jul 2008 16:54:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753835AbYGOUyo (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jul 2008 16:54:44 -0400 Received: from smtp-outbound-2.vmware.com ([65.115.85.73]:37684 "EHLO smtp-outbound-2.vmware.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752155AbYGOUyn (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jul 2008 16:54:43 -0400 Subject: Re: acpi based pci gap calculation - v3 From: Alok Kataria Reply-To: akataria@vmware.com To: Jesse Barnes Cc: "ak@linux.intel.com" , Ingo Molnar , "Brown, Len" , LKML , linux-acpi , "linux-pci@vger.kernel.org" , TJ In-Reply-To: <200807151328.00739.jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org> References: <1216148382.6135.21.camel@alok-dev1> <200807151328.00739.jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: VMware INC. Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 13:54:16 -0700 Message-Id: <1216155256.6135.25.camel@alok-dev1> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.8.0 (2.8.0-40.el5) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1600 Lines: 44 On Tue, 2008-07-15 at 13:28 -0700, Jesse Barnes wrote: > On Tuesday, July 15, 2008 11:59 am Alok Kataria wrote: > > Hi Andi, > > > > I don't see this patch being applied in any of the tree yet. > > Resending this incase you guys might have missed it. > > I assume this will go through the ACPI tree. > > > > The need for this patch was explained in > > http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=121441818818598&w=2 > > > > The v2 patch was discussed in > > http://marc.info/?l=linux-acpi&m=121433339619175&w=2 > > > > I then sent a incremental patch on top of v2 to fix some conditions and > > handle the change in the e820_search_gap interface. > > > > In this v3 patch, i have folded the incremental fix into the v2 patch. > > Please apply this. > > This should probably go to linux-pci too. > > I wonder if this is stable enough to go into 2.6.27? I have tested it with couple of different BIOS settings and it seems to work as it should. > Most of the PCI bugs we > have at the moment are related to PCI resource allocation failures. My hope > is that finding more space will fix most of them. Assuming this patch > doesn't have any dependencies, I can put it in my linux-next branch. No dependencies, I had added a function e820_search_gap which is used by this patch. This function is already in the mainline tree. Thanks for applying. -- Alok -- 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/