Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 23 Apr 2012 13:13:41 -0700 | Subject | Re: One problem in reassign pci bus number? | From | Yinghai Lu <> |
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On Sun, Apr 22, 2012 at 8:52 AM, Richard Yang <weiyang@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote: > All, > > I am reading the pci_scan_bridge() and not sure what will happen in > following situation. > > Suppose the kernel is not passed the pci=assign-busses. > > Below is a picture about the pci system. > > +-------+ > | | root bridge(0,255) > +---+---+ > | Bus 0 > -----+-----------+------------------------------+-- > | | > | | > | | > +----+----+ +-----+-----+ > | | B1(1,15) | |B2(16,28) > +----+----+ +-----+-----+ > | Bus 1 | Bus 16 > -----+----------------------- ----------+---------------- > | > +----+----+ > | | B3 > +---------+ > > Suppose B1 and B2 works fine with the BIOS, which get the right bus > number and range. > > B3 does not works fine with the BIOS, which doesn't get the bus number. > > So in pci_scan_bridge(), B3 will be met in the second pass and get bus > number 16? > Would this be a conflict?
busn_alloc patchset should address your concern.
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/yinghai/linux-yinghai.git for-pci-busn-alloc
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