On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 04:11:50PM -0700, Jesse Barnes wrote:
> On Thursday, April 5, 2007 3:37 pm Adam Jackson wrote:
> > So I'm attempting to do something fairly heinous (X server across
> > five video cards), and I hit a fun bug in bridge range setup. See
> > attached lspci and dmesg, but the short of it is I've got two VGA
> > chips on one card behind a bridge, which is itself behind a second
> > PCI bridge, and the bridge ranges get set up so that I can't map the
> > ROMs, which means I can't post them, and therefore can't use them
> > period.
> >
> > The alignment restriction on the ROMs seems a bit extreme:
> >
> > % sudo setpci -s 7:2 ROM_ADDRESS=ffffffff
> > % sudo setpci -s 7:2 ROM_ADDRESS
> > f0000001
> >
> > (same for 7:1) so that might be part of the problem.
>
> ...
> Allocating PCI resources starting at 88000000 (gap: 80000000:7ff00000)
> ...
>
> That's ~2G of space, which should be plenty for your PCI resources I
> hope? If you have a bunch of cards with large BARS though you might be
> running out.
>
> ...
> PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:01.0
> IO window: 4000-4fff
> MEM window: a3500000-a35fffff (1M)
> PREFETCH window: 90000000-97ffffff
> PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:03.0
> IO window: disabled.
> MEM window: a3400000-a34fffff (1M)
> PREFETCH window: 98000000-9fffffff
> PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:1c.0
> IO window: disabled.
> MEM window: a3300000-a33fffff (1M)
> PREFETCH window: 80000000-8fffffff
> PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:1c.4
> IO window: 3000-3fff
> MEM window: a3200000-a32fffff (1M)
> PREFETCH window: a3700000-a37fffff
> PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:1c.5
> IO window: 2000-2fff
> MEM window: a3100000-a31fffff (1M)
> PREFETCH window: disabled.
> PCI: Failed to allocate mem resource #6:10000000@b0000000 for
> 0000:07:01.0
> PCI: Failed to allocate mem resource #6:10000000@b0000000 for
> 0000:07:02.0
> ...
>
> Yep, looks like those two devices had a problem. Supposedly they want
> to sit at 256M? Given that we're only giving each bridge 1M of memory
> space that would definitely be a problem.
>
> The total so far is only 5M of PCI space... so we're not making good use
> of the 2G we were given.
>
> ...
> PCI: Bridge: 0000:06:00.0
> IO window: disabled.
> MEM window: a1000000-a2ffffff (32M)
> PREFETCH window: disabled.
> PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:1e.0
> IO window: 1000-1fff
> MEM window: a1000000-a30fffff (~32M)
> PREFETCH window: a0000000-a0ffffff
> ...
>
> And these bridges got more space somehow... Greg who's in charge of our
> bridge resource allocation code?
Ivan and Linus seem to be doing the most of the work in this area, I
gladly pass these issues on to them :)
thanks,
greg k-h
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