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From: Yannick Roehlly <yannick.roehlly@free.fr>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>,
	Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-pci@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/pci: make pci_mem_start to be aligned only
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 00:35:39 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200904150035.40535.yannick.roehlly@free.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0904141359020.18124@localhost.localdomain>

Le Tuesday 14 April 2009 23:10:38 Linus Torvalds, vous avez écrit :
> The reason? We've definitely seen ACPI code or integrated graphics stuff
> that steals a lot of memory at the end, which means that end-of-RAM might
> be not at 2GB, but at 2GB-16MB-1MB, for example (1MB of "ACPI data", and
> 16MB of "stolen video ram").

Good evening (UTC+0200),

First, I must say that I don't understand 99% of the technical details of this 
discussion. I'm only the bug reporter. ;-)

There's one thing about my computer that may affect, or maybe cause this bug. 
There's no need to make possibly harmful change to the kernel only to fix it on 
a few machines with buggy bioses.

My computer is an Asus M51Se laptop with an HD3470 graphic card. This card is 
an "hypermemory" one with 256MB dedicated RAM and up to 1GB with shared 
memory. The problem is that I don't know how the computer assigns main memory 
to the card. There is nothing in the bios to indicate the amount of shared 
memory (and Asus did not answer my questions).

Once again, I'm not an expert, so if this details are not important, please 
forgive me.

Sincerely,

Yannick

-- 
"...Unix, MS-DOS, and Windows NT (also known as the Good, the Bad, and
the Ugly)."
(By Matt Welsh)


  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-04-14 22:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 117+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <bug-11103-13546@http.bugzilla.kernel.org/>
     [not found] ` <200904101913.n3AJDhMm018684@demeter.kernel.org>
2009-04-10 20:27   ` [Bug 11103] Can't use framebuffer or vesa Xorg with two memory modules Yinghai Lu
2009-04-11  3:29     ` Yinghai Lu
2009-04-14 20:49       ` [PATCH] pci: don't assume pref memio are 64bit -v2 Yinghai Lu
2009-04-14 20:50         ` [PATCH] x86/pci: make pci_mem_start to be aligned only Yinghai Lu
2009-04-14 21:10           ` Linus Torvalds
2009-04-14 21:27             ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-04-14 21:27             ` Yinghai Lu
2009-04-14 22:35             ` Yannick Roehlly [this message]
2009-04-15  0:29             ` [PATCH] x86/pci: make pci_mem_start to be aligned only -v2 Yinghai Lu
2009-04-15  0:41               ` [PATCH] x86/pci: make pci_mem_start to be aligned only -v3 Yinghai Lu
2009-04-15  0:42                 ` [PATCH] x86/pci: fix -1 calling to e820_all_mapped with mmconfig Yinghai Lu
2009-04-16 16:31                 ` [PATCH] x86/pci: make pci_mem_start to be aligned only -v3 Jesse Barnes
2009-04-16 16:44                   ` Linus Torvalds
2009-04-16 16:56                     ` Ingo Molnar
2009-04-16 17:18                       ` Yinghai Lu
2009-04-16 17:27                         ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-04-16 17:38                           ` Ingo Molnar
2009-04-16 17:28                         ` Ingo Molnar
2009-04-16 20:13                           ` [PATCH] x86/pci: make pci_mem_start to be aligned only -v4 Yinghai Lu
2009-04-16 23:18                             ` Linus Torvalds
2009-04-16 23:54                               ` Ingo Molnar
2009-04-17  0:24                                 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-04-17 13:16                                   ` Ingo Molnar
2009-04-17 21:59                                     ` Yinghai Lu
2009-04-17 22:04                                     ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-04-18  5:37                                       ` [PATCH] pci: keep pci device resource name pointer right Yinghai Lu
2009-04-18  7:51                                         ` Ingo Molnar
2009-04-18 16:05                                           ` Jesse Barnes
2009-04-18 18:42                                         ` Linus Torvalds
2009-04-18 19:19                                           ` Yinghai Lu
2009-04-18 19:23                                             ` Greg KH
2009-04-18 20:00                                               ` Kay Sievers
2009-04-18 20:27                                                 ` Kay Sievers
2009-04-18 20:37                                                   ` Ingo Molnar
2009-04-18 22:05                                                     ` [PATCH] driver: dont update dev_name via device_add path Yinghai Lu
2009-04-28  7:36                                                       ` [PATCH] driver: make dev_set_name(, NULL) work Yinghai Lu
2009-04-28  7:42                                                         ` [RFC PATCH] use dev_set_name(,NULL) to prevent leaking Yinghai Lu
2009-04-28  8:25                                                           ` Kay Sievers
2009-04-28 15:21                                                             ` Yinghai Lu
2009-04-28 15:34                                                               ` Yinghai Lu
2009-04-28 15:39                                                                 ` Greg KH
2009-04-28 15:51                                                                   ` Yinghai Lu
2009-04-28 15:56                                                                     ` Kay Sievers
2009-04-28 16:08                                                                       ` Yinghai Lu
2009-04-28 16:15                                                                         ` Kay Sievers
2009-04-28 19:04                                                                           ` Yinghai Lu
2009-04-28 16:36                                                                       ` Yinghai Lu
2009-04-28 16:50                                                                         ` Kay Sievers
2009-04-28 14:52                                                           ` Greg KH
2009-04-28 14:51                                                         ` [PATCH] driver: make dev_set_name(, NULL) work Greg KH
2009-04-28 15:14                                                           ` Yinghai Lu
2009-04-28 15:39                                                             ` Greg KH
2009-04-18 21:07                                                   ` [PATCH] pci: keep pci device resource name pointer right Yinghai Lu
2009-04-18 22:17                                                   ` Linus Torvalds
2009-04-18 20:00                                               ` [PATCH] driver: dont update dev_name if it is not changed Yinghai Lu
2009-04-18 20:11                                                 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-04-18 20:20                                                   ` Yinghai Lu
2009-04-18 20:27                                                     ` Ingo Molnar
2009-04-18  8:33                               ` [PATCH] x86/pci: make pci_mem_start to be aligned only -v4 Yinghai Lu
2009-04-18  9:22                                 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-04-18 17:07                                   ` Yinghai Lu
2009-04-18 18:57                                   ` Linus Torvalds
2009-04-18 19:14                                     ` Ingo Molnar
2009-04-18 19:26                                       ` Yinghai Lu
2009-04-18 22:20                                         ` Yinghai Lu
2009-04-18 22:31                                         ` Linus Torvalds
2009-04-18 20:13                                       ` Ivan Kokshaysky
2009-04-18 18:50                                 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-04-18 22:44                                   ` Yinghai Lu
2009-04-18 23:01                                     ` Yinghai Lu
2009-04-18 23:06                                       ` Linus Torvalds
2009-04-18 23:26                                         ` Yinghai Lu
2009-04-18 23:30                                           ` Yinghai Lu
2009-04-18 23:04                                     ` Linus Torvalds
2009-04-19  0:32                                       ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-04-19  4:50                                       ` Linus Torvalds
2009-04-19  5:26                                         ` Yinghai Lu
2009-04-19 19:35                                           ` Yannick Roehlly
2009-04-19 19:59                                             ` Yinghai Lu
2009-04-19 20:24                                               ` Yannick Roehlly
2009-04-19  9:02                                         ` Ingo Molnar
2009-04-19  9:06                                           ` Ingo Molnar
2009-04-19 17:52                                             ` Jesse Barnes
2009-04-20 22:33                                             ` Ivan Kokshaysky
2009-04-20 22:52                                               ` Yinghai Lu
2009-04-21 10:54                                                 ` Ivan Kokshaysky
2009-04-21  0:09                                               ` Yinghai Lu
2009-04-21 10:56                                                 ` Ivan Kokshaysky
2009-04-21 15:57                                                   ` Yinghai Lu
2009-04-22 22:37                                                   ` [RFC PATCH 1/2] pci: don't assume pref memio are 64bit -v3 Yinghai Lu
2009-04-22 22:38                                                     ` [RFC PATCH 2/2] pci: try to assign res for device under transparent bridges Yinghai Lu
2009-04-22 22:49                                                     ` [RFC PATCH 1/2] pci: don't assume pref memio are 64bit -v3 Jesse Barnes
2009-04-23  0:49                                                       ` Yinghai Lu
2009-04-23  1:05                                                         ` Jesse Barnes
2009-04-23  2:03                                                           ` Yinghai Lu
2009-04-23 12:58                                                             ` Ivan Kokshaysky
2009-04-23 15:30                                                               ` Yinghai Lu
2009-04-23  2:10                                                           ` Yinghai Lu
2009-04-23 13:22                                                             ` Ivan Kokshaysky
2009-04-23 15:13                                                               ` Yinghai Lu
2009-04-23 22:19                                                                 ` Ivan Kokshaysky
2009-04-24  3:48                                                                   ` [PATCH 1/4] pci/x86: don't assume pref memio are 64bit -v4 Yinghai Lu
2009-04-24  3:49                                                                     ` [PATCH 2/4] pci: try to assign res for device under transparent bridges -v2 Yinghai Lu
2009-04-24  3:50                                                                     ` [PATCH 3/4] x86: reserve range near the ram Yinghai Lu
2009-04-24  3:50                                                                     ` [PATCH 4/4] x86/pci: make pci_mem_start to be aligned only -v5 Yinghai Lu
2009-04-24 13:16                                                                     ` [PATCH 1/4] pci/x86: don't assume pref memio are 64bit -v4 Ivan Kokshaysky
2009-05-05 18:52                                                                     ` Jesse Barnes
2009-05-06 12:33                                                                       ` Ingo Molnar
2009-05-06 15:06                                                                         ` [PATCH 1/2] x86: reserve range near the ram Yinghai Lu
2009-05-11  9:51                                                                           ` [tip:x86/mm] x86, e820, pci: reserve extra free space near end of RAM tip-bot for Linus Torvalds
2009-05-06 15:07                                                                         ` [PATCH 1/2] x86/pci: make pci_mem_start to be aligned only -v5 Yinghai Lu
2009-05-11  9:51                                                                           ` [tip:x86/mm] x86/pci: remove rounding quirk from e820_setup_gap() tip-bot for Yinghai Lu
2009-04-23 12:36                                                     ` [RFC PATCH 1/2] pci: don't assume pref memio are 64bit -v3 Ivan Kokshaysky
2009-04-23 12:41                                                       ` Ingo Molnar
2009-04-23 13:09                                                         ` Ivan Kokshaysky
2009-04-23 15:05                                                       ` Yinghai Lu
2009-04-21 15:41                                               ` [PATCH] x86/pci: make pci_mem_start to be aligned only -v4 Jesse Barnes

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