Re: [RFC PATCH] PCI MMCONFIG: add validation against ACPI motherboard resources

[Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>]

On Wednesday, May 2, 2007 4:45 pm Robert Hancock wrote:
> Jesse Barnes wrote:
> > On Wednesday, May 2, 2007 7:34 am Robert Hancock wrote:
> >> Jesse Barnes wrote:
> >>> On Tuesday, May 01, 2007, Jesse Barnes wrote:
> >>>>> I'm testing it now on my 965...
> >>>>
> >>>> Bah... nevermind Robert, I see you're doing this already in
> >>>> pci_mmcfg_reject_broken.  I'm about to reboot & test now.
> >>>
> >>> Ok, I've tested a bit on my 965 (after re-adding my old patch to
> >>> support it) and the new checks are more complete, but my BIOS
> >>> still appears to be buggy.
> >>>
> >>> The extended config space (as defined by the register) is at
> >>> 0xf0000000 (full value is 0xf0000003 indicating 128M enabled). 
> >>> The ACPI MCFG table has this space reserved according to Robert's
> >>> new code, but the machine hangs due to the address space aliasing
> >>> Olivier mentioned awhile back.  I don't have a PCIe card to test
> >>> with (or any devices that require extended config space that I
> >>> know of) so I can't really tell if Windows supports PCIe on this
> >>> platform, but if it does I don't see how it would w/o having a
> >>> full bridge driver and sophisticated address space allocation
> >>> builtin.
> >>
> >> Windows XP doesn't use MMCONFIG or any extended configuration
> >> space. I believe Vista is supposed to, though. Not sure how they
> >> are handling this issue.
> >
> > Oh right... Vista will be the first to fully support PCIe & mcfg...
> >
> >> Can you post what your board has for PNPACPI reserved resources (I
> >> believe they're in /sys/devices/pnp0/*/resources IIRC, don't have
> >> a Linux box handy right now). Full dmesg would also be useful, I
> >> think it dumps out those reservations at boot nowadays..
> >
> > BIOS update didn't help.  Here's the boot log and a dump of the
> > pnp0 resources.
>
> Curious.. It looks like the ACPI resources have the correct
> reservation for the MMCONFIG window according to what the register
> says the location should be. There's no other reservations that
> overlap with that range (f000000-f7ffffff), and according to the 965
> datasheet there's nothing that's hard-coded to occupy that memory
> range. I can't really see what this range could be conflicting with.

Yeah, it's strange.  Even /proc/iomem from a working boot looks ok:

d0700000-d07fffff : PCI Bus #04
d0800000-d08fffff : PCI Bus #05
f0000000-f7ffffff : pnp 00:01
fec00000-fec00fff : IOAPIC 0
fed00000-fed003ff : HPET 0

> What happens if you take out the chipset register detection, does the
> MCFG table give you the same result? Wonder if they're doing
> something funny with start/end bus values or something in their
> table. There's some code in my patch that prints out the important
> data from the MCFG table, can you tell me what that shows with the
> chipset detection taken out?

Yeah, I'll look a little more closely.  It could also be that another 
register needs tweaking somewhere to actually get the bridge to decode 
the space.

> If that doesn't provide any useful information, I think we may need
> some assistance from Intel chipset/motherboard people to figure out
> what is going on here..

I'm talking with them now, hopefully they'll shed some light on it.

Thanks,
Jesse

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