From: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>,
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, yannick.roehlly@free.fr
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/pci: make pci_mem_start to be aligned only -v3
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2009 10:18:28 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <49E76864.9060309@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090416165640.GA13927@elte.hu>
Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 16 Apr 2009, Jesse Barnes wrote:
>>> Any comments on this one, Linus? Should I include your ack?
>> I'm not ready to ack it, no. I don't think the suggested patch is very
>> clean or necessarily sensible as-is. It seems very ad-hoc.
>>
>> I was literally thinking of something like
>> "round up from the last RAM by X"
>> "round up from the last reserved region by Y"
>> "pick the bigger of the two"
>>
>> with helper functions for the two cases and comments along the
>> lines of why we do it. Something that was a bit more obvious about
>> what it's doing and why.
>
> That's sensible - but i'd also like to inject hpa's add-on idea: if
> we do that then we should do it _explicitly_ and _visibly_, by
> injecting an artificial e820 reservation range to all expected
> "vulnerable" holes we cannot fully trust.
>
> We'd do that after all the fixed resources are allocated, but before
> dynamic PCI allocations.
>
> That prevents the PCI layer from dynamically allocating anything
> into that protective zone, and documents it as well (and makes it
> visible in boot logs, etc.) - instead of just a silent rule
> somewhere that no-one will really see if it breaks.
that need to do done much earlier, and much simple, just need to make that range to be reserved in e820.
and later e820_setup_gap even don't need to be aligned again.
YH
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-04-16 17:21 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
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 [this message]
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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