From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Steven Newbury <steve@snewbury.org.uk>,
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: Fri, 25 May 2012 13:18:18 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FBFE90A.5090407@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120525193716.GA8817@google.com>
On 05/25/2012 12:37 PM, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
>
> That's goofy. You're proposing to make only x86_64 and x86-PAE try to put
> 64-bit BARs above 4GB. Why should this be specific to x86? I acknowledge
> that there's risk in doing this, but if it's a good idea for x86_64, it
> should also be a good idea for other 64-bit architectures.
>
And so it is (assuming, of course, that we can address that memory.)
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-05-25 20:18 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
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 [this message]
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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