[PATCH v3 5/7] PCI: Do not use IORESOURCE_STARTALIGN to identify bridge resources

Yongji Xie xyjxie at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Fri Jul 1 17:04:10 AEST 2016


Hi Gavin,

On 2016/7/1 10:34, Gavin Shan wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 30, 2016 at 06:53:11PM +0800, Yongji Xie wrote:
>> Now we use the IORESOURCE_STARTALIGN to identify bridge resources
>> in __assign_resources_sorted(). That's quite fragile. We may also
>> set flag IORESOURCE_STARTALIGN for SR-IOV resources in some cases,
>> for example, using the option "noresize" of parameter
>> "pci=resource_alignment".
>>
>> In this patch, we try to use a more robust way to identify
>> bridge resources.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Yongji Xie <xyjxie at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Reviewed-by: Gavin Shan <gwshan at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
>
> Yongji, I think this doesn't have to be part of this series, meaning
> it can be sent or merged separately.
>

Seems like I give a wrong example in my changelog.  The
parameter "pci=resource_alignment" would not set flag
IORESOURCE_STARTALIGN for SR-IOV resources as I replied
to you in previous patch. So this patch has nothing to do
with this series now, I will remove it as you suggested.

Thanks,
Yongji



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