From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-pci@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/11] PCI: Try to allocate mem64 above 4G at first
Date: Wed, 23 May 2012 08:57:41 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+55aFzd1BWqidt95qZLc1x_YU=WeGS=mKUOMvO_3omOhc_5VA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1337754877-19759-3-git-send-email-yinghai@kernel.org>
On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 11:34 PM, Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> wrote:
> and will fall back to below 4g if it can not find any above 4g.
Has this been tested on 32-bit machines without PAE? There might be
things that just happen to work because their allocations were always
done bottom-up.
Or do we have something else that protects us from the "oops, we can't
actually *map* those pages"?
Linus
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-05-23 15:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 55+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-05-23 6:34 [PATCH 00/11] PCI: resource allocation related Yinghai Lu
2012-05-23 6:34 ` [PATCH 01/11] PCI: Should add children device res to fail list Yinghai Lu
2012-05-23 6:34 ` [PATCH 02/11] PCI: Try to allocate mem64 above 4G at first Yinghai Lu
2012-05-23 15:57 ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2012-05-23 17:30 ` Yinghai Lu
2012-05-23 18:40 ` Yinghai Lu
2012-05-25 4:36 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2012-05-25 17:53 ` Yinghai Lu
2012-05-25 18:39 ` Yinghai Lu
2012-05-25 19:37 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2012-05-25 20:18 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-05-25 20:19 ` Yinghai Lu
2012-05-25 21:55 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2012-05-25 21:58 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-05-25 22:14 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2012-05-25 23:10 ` Yinghai Lu
2012-05-26 0:12 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2012-05-26 15:01 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2012-05-29 17:56 ` Yinghai Lu
2012-05-29 17:55 ` Yinghai Lu
2012-05-29 17:57 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-05-29 18:17 ` Yinghai Lu
2012-05-29 19:03 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-05-29 20:46 ` Yinghai Lu
2012-05-29 20:50 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-06-01 23:30 ` Yinghai Lu
2012-06-04 1:05 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2012-06-05 2:37 ` Yinghai Lu
2012-06-05 4:50 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2012-06-05 5:04 ` Yinghai Lu
2012-06-06 9:44 ` Steven Newbury
2012-06-06 16:18 ` Bjorn Helgaas
[not found] ` <CAGLnvc_ejMWiiubVMo7DLz5ZVn1iMbf67FB4H7crRCCTRRqt2A@mail.gmail.com>
2012-07-04 3:00 ` joeyli
2012-05-29 20:53 ` David Miller
2012-05-29 19:23 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2012-05-29 20:40 ` Yinghai Lu
2012-05-29 23:24 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2012-05-29 23:27 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2012-05-29 23:33 ` Yinghai Lu
2012-05-29 23:47 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2012-05-30 7:40 ` Steven Newbury
2012-05-30 16:27 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2012-05-30 16:30 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-05-30 16:33 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-05-23 6:34 ` [PATCH 03/11] intel-gtt: Read 64bit for gmar_bus_addr Yinghai Lu
2012-05-23 7:21 ` Dave Airlie
2012-05-23 7:44 ` Daniel Vetter
2012-05-23 6:34 ` [PATCH 04/11] PCI: Make sure assign same align with large size resource at first Yinghai Lu
2012-05-23 6:34 ` [PATCH 05/11] resources: Split out __allocate_resource() Yinghai Lu
2012-05-23 6:34 ` [PATCH 06/11] resource: make find_resource could return just fit resource Yinghai Lu
2012-05-23 6:34 ` [PATCH 07/11] PCI: Don't allocate small resource in big empty space Yinghai Lu
2012-05-23 6:34 ` [PATCH 08/11] resource: only return range with needed align Yinghai Lu
2012-05-23 6:34 ` [PATCH 09/11] PCI: Add is_pci_iov_resource_idx() Yinghai Lu
2012-05-23 6:34 ` [PATCH 10/11] PCI: Sort unassigned resources with correct alignment Yinghai Lu
2012-05-23 6:34 ` [PATCH 11/11] PCI: Treat ROM resource as optional during assigning Yinghai Lu
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