[PATCH v4 0/5] PCI: try "pci=use_crs" again
Gary Hade
garyhade at us.ibm.com
Fri Feb 19 11:58:36 EST 2010
On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 01:19:47PM -0700, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> Historically, Linux has assumed a single PCI host bridge, with that bridge
> claiming all the address space left after RAM and legacy devices are taken out.
>
> If the system contains multiple host bridges, we can no longer operate under
> that assumption. We have to know what parts of the address space are claimed
> by each bridge so that when we assign resources to a PCI device, we take them
> from a range claimed by the upstream host bridge.
>
> On x86 and ia64, we use ACPI to enumerate all the PCI host bridges in the
> system, and part of the host bridge description is the "_CRS" (current resource
> settings" property, which lists the address space used by the bridge. On x86,
> we currently ignore most of the _CRS information. This patch series changes
> this, so we will use _CRS to learn about the host bridge windows.
>
> Since most x86 machines with multiple host bridges are relatively new, this
> series only turns this on for machines with BIOS dates of 2008 or newer.
I just tried your changes on an IBM x3850 with a 12/01/2008 BIOS
date. After booting without pci=use_crs I observed the expected
PCI: Using host bridge windows from ACPI; if necessary, use "pci=nocrs" and report a bug
message. I then loaded 'acpiphp' and was able to successfully
hot-remove and hot-add PCI-X and PCIe cards. Without pci=use_crs
a hot-add operation would have previously caused a machine check.
Tested-by: Gary Hade <garyhade at us.ibm.com>
Gary
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