Re: 2.6.18-mm1

["Aaron Durbin" <adurbin@google.com>]

On 9/27/06, Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> wrote:
> Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> writes:
>
> > On Wednesday 27 September 2006 09:39, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> >> Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> writes:
> >>
> >> > On Wednesday 27 September 2006 04:04, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >> When I apply:
> >> >> x86_64-mm-insert-ioapics-and-local-apic-into-resource-map
> >> >>
> >> >> My e1000 fails to initializes and complains about a bad eeprom checksum.
> >> >> I haven't tracked this down to root cause yet and I am in the process of
> >> > building
> >> >> 2.6.18-mm1 with just that patch reverted to confirm that is the only cause.
> >> >
> >> > Is this with Linux BIOS?
> >>
> >> Yes.  Not that it matters in this case.
> >
> > Well Linus BIOS is known to play very fast-and-lose regarding supplying
> > correct BIOS tables.
>
> Agreed it does tend to push the envelop of what is allowed, and doesn't
> try to work around OS bugs.  Which does tend to expose things.
>
> > Perhaps it conflicts with a broken e820 map?
>
> No. Did you not get the other part of the discussion?
>
> The reservation was wrong because those IOAPICs were on ordinary pci
> devices.  So the two reservations for the same resource conflicted,
> so the pci allocator tried to move the pci device.
>
> The problem is totally contained within the patch under discussion.
>
> The role LinuxBIOS plays seems to be that it is atypical to enable
> ioapics as ordinary pci devices.
>
> Eric

Eric,

I agree that clearing the IORESOURCE_BUSY flag would not alleviate
this problem.  Could you please post the output of 'lspci -vvvvx' so
we could better understand the layout of your box?  Perhaps I might
have to defer the registration of the resources until later.  It seems
weird that the IO APIC are mapped in as PCI devices though.

-Aaron
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