Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753750AbZJ2JDg (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Oct 2009 05:03:36 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752886AbZJ2JDf (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Oct 2009 05:03:35 -0400 Received: from hera.kernel.org ([140.211.167.34]:37499 "EHLO hera.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752858AbZJ2JDe (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Oct 2009 05:03:34 -0400 Message-ID: <4AE95A57.6050504@kernel.org> Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 02:03:19 -0700 From: Yinghai Lu User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (X11/20090817) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Eric W. Biederman" CC: Kenji Kaneshige , Jesse Barnes , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-pci@vger.kernel.org" , Alex Chiang , Ivan Kokshaysky , Bjorn Helgaas Subject: Re: [PATCH] pci: pciehp update the slot bridge res to get big range for pcie devices References: <4ADEB601.8020200@kernel.org> <4AE52B68.3070501@jp.fujitsu.com> <4AE53883.3070709@kernel.org> <4AE5545E.1020900@jp.fujitsu.com> <4AE55D12.30403@kernel.org> <4AE57976.4060107@jp.fujitsu.com> <4AE5E37F.8070707@kernel.org> <4AE5EFDB.2060908@kernel.org> <4AE80170.6030402@jp.fujitsu.com> <4AE88305.8020207@kernel.org> <4AE897B4.9030206@kernel.org> <4AE8A080.1040208@kernel.org> <4AE8BA1D.5030908@kernel.org> <4AE8C4BF.8040306@kernel.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1745 Lines: 42 Eric W. Biederman wrote: > Yinghai Lu writes: >> after closing look up the code, it looks it will not break your setup. >> >> 1. before the patches: >> a. when master card is inserted, all bridge in that card will get assigned with min_size >> b. when new cards is inserted to those slots in master card, will get assigned in the bridge size. >> >> 2. after the patches: v5 >> a. booted up, all leaf bridge mmio get clearred. >> b. when master card is inserted, all bridge in that card will get assigned with min_size, and master bridge will be sum of them >> c. when new cards is inserted to those slots in master card, will get assigned in the bridge size. >> >> can you check those two patches in your setup to verify it? > > I have a much simpler case I will break, as I tried something similar by accident. which kernel version? > > AMD cpu MCP55 with one pcie port setup as hotplug. > The system only has 2GB of RAM. So plenty of space for pcie devices. one or two ht chains? do you still have lspci -tv with it? > > If the firmware assigns nothing and linux at boot time assigns the pci mmio space: > Reads from the bar of the hotplugged device work > Writes to the bar of the hotplugged device, cause further writes to go to lala land. > > So I had to have the firmware make the assignment, because only it knows the > details of the hidden AMD bar registers for each hypertransport chain etc. that mean kernel doesn't get peer root bus res probed properly YH -- 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/