Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 25 Aug 2009 12:00:42 -0700 | From | Yinghai Lu <> | Subject | Re: [Bug 13940] iwlagn and sky2 stopped working, ACPI-related |
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Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Tue, 25 Aug 2009, Yinghai Lu wrote: >> please try to attached patch, that will increae alignment from 32M to 64M. > > Hmm. That may indeed fix the problem, because we have: > > - working-2.6.30.log: > > Allocating PCI resources starting at b8000000 (gap: b6000000:4a000000) > > - not-working-2.6.31.log: > > Allocating PCI resources starting at b6000000 (gap: b6000000:4a000000) > > HOWEVER. We also have: > > - working-2.6.31_acpi=off.log: > > Allocating PCI resources starting at b6000000 (gap: b6000000:4a000000) > > ie it really does seem to be ACPI-related somehow: starting PCI > allocations at that b6000000 address works perfectly fine if ACPI is not > enabled. > > In the not-working version, we end up getting: > > [ 1.408588] pci 0000:00:1c.4: PCI bridge, secondary bus 0000:07 > [ 1.408593] pci 0000:00:1c.4: IO window: 0x2000-0x2fff > [ 1.408600] pci 0000:00:1c.4: MEM window: 0xb6000000-0xb60fffff > [ 1.408606] pci 0000:00:1c.4: PREFETCH window: disabled > [ 1.408623] pci 0000:00:1c.5: PCI bridge, secondary bus 0000:08 > [ 1.408626] pci 0000:00:1c.5: IO window: disabled > [ 1.408633] pci 0000:00:1c.5: MEM window: 0xb6100000-0xb61fffff > [ 1.408639] pci 0000:00:1c.5: PREFETCH window: disabled > > > while in the working version we have: > > - ACPI off - looks like a BIOS allocated memory window: > > [ 0.290854] pci 0000:00:1c.4: PCI bridge, secondary bus 0000:07 > [ 0.290854] pci 0000:00:1c.4: IO window: 0x3000-0x3fff > [ 0.290854] pci 0000:00:1c.4: MEM window: 0xf4500000-0xf45fffff > [ 0.290854] pci 0000:00:1c.4: PREFETCH window: disabled > [ 0.290854] pci 0000:00:1c.5: PCI bridge, secondary bus 0000:08 > [ 0.290854] pci 0000:00:1c.5: IO window: disabled > [ 0.290854] pci 0000:00:1c.5: MEM window: 0xf4600000-0xf46fffff > [ 0.290854] pci 0000:00:1c.5: PREFETCH window: disabled
interesting, when acpi=off, BIOS does allocate resource for them
[ 0.261960] pci 0000:07:00.0: reg 10 64bit mmio: [0xf4500000-0xf4503fff] [ 0.261970] pci 0000:07:00.0: reg 18 io port: [0x3000-0x30ff] [ 0.262049] pci 0000:07:00.0: supports D1 D2 [ 0.262051] pci 0000:07:00.0: PME# supported from D0 D1 D2 D3hot D3cold [ 0.262058] pci 0000:07:00.0: PME# disabled [ 0.272117] pci 0000:00:1c.4: bridge io port: [0x3000-0x3fff] [ 0.272122] pci 0000:00:1c.4: bridge 32bit mmio: [0xf4500000-0xf45fffff] [ 0.272212] pci 0000:08:00.0: reg 10 64bit mmio: [0xf4600000-0xf4601fff] [ 0.272321] pci 0000:08:00.0: PME# supported from D0 D3hot D3cold [ 0.272330] pci 0000:08:00.0: PME# disabled [ 0.280128] pci 0000:00:1c.5: bridge 32bit mmio: [0xf4600000-0xf46fffff]
> > - ACPI on - we allocated the memory window, but at 0xb8000000+, rather > than directly after end-of-RAM: > > [ 0.842970] pci 0000:00:1c.4: PCI bridge, secondary bus 0000:07 > [ 0.842975] pci 0000:00:1c.4: IO window: 0x2000-0x2fff > [ 0.842983] pci 0000:00:1c.4: MEM window: 0xb8000000-0xb80fffff > [ 0.842989] pci 0000:00:1c.4: PREFETCH window: disabled > [ 0.843012] pci 0000:00:1c.5: PCI bridge, secondary bus 0000:08 > [ 0.843016] pci 0000:00:1c.5: IO window: disabled > [ 0.843023] pci 0000:00:1c.5: MEM window: 0xb8100000-0xb81fffff > [ 0.843029] pci 0000:00:1c.5: PREFETCH window: disabled > > ie for some reason ACPI caused that bus to be re-allocated, and > re-allocating it right after the memory window doesn't work. > > Crazy. > > I wonder what is hiding at that 0xb6000000 address. And while I think that > in this case rounding up to 64MB will fix it, I worry that our old model > (of never starting directly after RAM, even if it was aligned) may not > have been safer. >
acpi does clear sth.
YH
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