Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753265Ab0DMXMs (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Apr 2010 19:12:48 -0400 Received: from acsinet12.oracle.com ([141.146.126.234]:64238 "EHLO acsinet12.oracle.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752728Ab0DMXMq (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Apr 2010 19:12:46 -0400 Message-ID: <4BC4F9C2.20503@oracle.com> Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2010 16:09:54 -0700 From: Yinghai User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100317 SUSE/3.0.4-1.1.1 Thunderbird/3.0.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "H. Peter Anvin" CC: Bjorn Helgaas , Thomas Gleixner , Ingo Molnar , Andy Isaacson , guenter.roeck@ericsson.com, Linus Torvalds , "linux-pci@vger.kernel.org" , "x86@kernel.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , Thomas Renninger Subject: Re: [PATCH -v2 1/2] x86: Reserve [0xa0000, 0x100000] in e820 map References: <20100409223532.GC11130@hexapodia.org> <4BBFB1D8.6090802@oracle.com> <20100410000030.GE11130@hexapodia.org> <4BBFD019.9040405@oracle.com> <20100410014308.GG11130@hexapodia.org> <4BBFD8EF.6020108@oracle.com> <20100410015711.GH11130@hexapodia.org> <4BBFE66C.2040603@oracle.com> <20100412185416.GA19959@hexapodia.org> <4BC375D9.4040503@oracle.com> <20100412200224.GO11130@hexapodia.org> <4BC39F67.4090407@oracle.com> <1271192527.6035.44.camel@dc7800.home> <4BC4DD85.5030203@zytor.com> <4BC4DDEA.60202@oracle.com> <4BC4DFAD.9020600@zytor.com> <4BC4E55B.7000103@oracle.com> <4BC4E8FB.8060802@zytor.com> <4BC4F03C.1020707@oracle.com> <4BC4F320.8020902@zytor.com> <4BC4F703.5030700@oracle.com> <4BC4F80C.2020209@zytor.com> <4BC4F851.7040500@oracle.com> <4BC4F948.8050500@zytor.com> In-Reply-To: <4BC4F948.8050500@zytor.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Source-IP: acsmt353.oracle.com [141.146.40.153] X-Auth-Type: Internal IP X-CT-RefId: str=0001.0A090206.4BC4FA2C.0145:SCFMA4539814,ss=1,fgs=0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 987 Lines: 25 On 04/13/2010 04:07 PM, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > On 04/13/2010 04:03 PM, Yinghai wrote: >> On 04/13/2010 04:02 PM, H. Peter Anvin wrote: >>>> >>>> Are you sure? what is BAR range? greater than 1M ? >>>> >>>> e820_reserve_resources() will make that range to be reserved and BUSY in resource tree. >>>> and if driver for that device want to call pci_request_region, it will get failure... >>>> >>> >>> Yes, > 1 MB in that case, I'm fairly sure. >> >> that is ok. actually that is handled by e820_reserve_resource_late(), and it will not put BUSY on the entry at all. >> > > OK... why is that handled differently? about one year ago, Linus made that change to use insert_resource_expand_to_fit() to honor PCI device BAR than E820_RESERVED. 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/