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SubjectRe: [PATCH] x86: split e820 reserved entries record to late v4


On Fri, 29 Aug 2008, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> BIOS-e820: 0000000077ff0000 - 0000000078000000 (reserved)
> BIOS-e820: 00000000e0000000 - 00000000f0000000 (reserved)
> BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
>
> which overlaps with the chipset PCI BAR (hpet) resource:
>
> pci 0000:00:14.0: BAR has HPET at fed00000-fed003ff
>
> so due to this 1K conflict we take the full e820-reserved entry out and
> give the range 0xfec00000-0x100000000 as 'free'.

That's wrong. It's a full overlap, so "insert_resource()" should happily
insert the 00000000fec00000 - 0000000100000000 _around_ the HPET bar.

Do you actually see this behavior, or do you just misunderstand how
"insert_resource()" works?

Linus


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