Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 26 Nov 2012 10:53:59 -0800 | From | Greg Kroah-Hartman <> | Subject | Re: [ 37/38] PCI : ability to relocate assigned pci-resources |
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On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 09:41:41AM +0800, Ram Pai wrote: > On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 11:29:20AM -0200, Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 04:40:20PM -0800, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > > 3.0-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. > > > > > > ------------------ > > > > > > From: Ram Pai <linuxram@us.ibm.com> > > > > > > commit 2bbc6942273b5b3097bd265d82227bdd84b351b2 upstream. > > > > > > Currently pci-bridges are allocated enough resources to satisfy their immediate > > > requirements. Any additional resource-requests fail if additional free space, > > > contiguous to the one already allocated, is not available. This behavior is not > > > reasonable since sufficient contiguous resources, that can satisfy the request, > > > are available at a different location. > > > > > > This patch provides the ability to expand and relocate a allocated resource. > > > > > > v2: Changelog: Fixed size calculation in pci_reassign_resource() > > > v3: Changelog : Split this patch. The resource.c changes are already > > > upstream. All the pci driver changes are in here. > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Ram Pai <linuxram@us.ibm.com> > > > Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org> > > > Cc: Andrew Worsley <amworsley@gmail.com> > > > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> > > > > This change is said to bring a regression: > > http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.pci/11666 > > > > fixed by: > > commit 47ea91b4052d9e94b9dca5d7a3d947fbebd07ba9 > > Resource: fix wrong resource window calculation > > > > Which wasn't applied with this series for 3.0. > > You are right. We need to apply that fix along with this patch.
Thanks, now added to the tree.
greg k-h
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