From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751495AbXLDAzu (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Dec 2007 19:55:50 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750808AbXLDAzm (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Dec 2007 19:55:42 -0500 Received: from mga02.intel.com ([134.134.136.20]:44308 "EHLO mga02.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750806AbXLDAzl (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Dec 2007 19:55:41 -0500 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.23,246,1194249600"; d="scan'208";a="286457202" Subject: Re: pnpacpi : exceeded the max number of IO resources From: Shaohua Li To: Rene Herman Cc: yakui.zhao@intel.com, Chris Holvenstot , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, hidave.darkstar@gmail.com, bjorn.helgaas@hp.com, trenn@suse.de, Andrew Morton In-Reply-To: <475436A3.90906@keyaccess.nl> References: <1196428488.7066.6.camel@localhost> <47508D3C.9050507@keyaccess.nl> <475436A3.90906@keyaccess.nl> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2007 08:55:13 +0800 Message-Id: <1196729713.13969.1.camel@sli10-desk.sh.intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.12.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 2007-12-03 at 18:02 +0100, Rene Herman wrote: > On 30-11-07 23:22, Rene Herman wrote: > > > On 30-11-07 14:14, Chris Holvenstot wrote: > > > >> For what it is worth I too have seen this problem this morning and it > >> DOES appear to be new (in contrast to a previous comment) > >> > >> The message: pnpacpi: exceeded the max number of mem resources: 12 > >> > >> is displayed each time the system is booted with the 2.6.24-rc3-git5 > >> kernel but is NOT displayed when booting 2.6.24-rc3-git4 > >> > >> I have made no changes in my config file between these two kernels other > >> than to accept any new defaults when running make oldconfig. > >> > >> If you had already narrowed it down to a change between git4 and git5 I > >> apologize for wasting your time. Have to run to work now. > > > > Thanks, and re-added the proper CCs. Sigh... > > > > Well, yes, the warning is actually new as well. Previously your kernel > > just silently ignored 8 more mem resources than it does now it seems. > > > > Given that people are hitting these limits, it might make sense to just > > do away with the warning for 2.6.24 again while waiting for the dynamic > > code? > > Ping. Should these warnings be reverted for 2.6.24? Revert the warning doesn't make any sense. I'd suggest changing the IO resources number bigger till Thomas's patch in. Shaohua