From: Yinghai on
On 04/06/2010 03:54 PM, Andy Isaacson wrote:
> This Dell Precision WorkStation T3400 doesn't boot 2.6.34-rc1 (tried
> 522dba71). 2.6.33 was fine, and it's been running various stable
> kernels for the last 18 months. Unfortunately I can't reasonably bisect
> as I need this machine to be usable, but I can test specific patches or
> options. (three or four reboots is fine, 15 is not.)
>
> full dmesg from failing boot and a successful boot at
> http://web.hexapodia.org/~adi/tmp/20100406-pci-ahci-reset-fail/
>
> I suspect it's due to:
>
> [ 3.094038] pci 0000:00:1f.2: no compatible bridge window for [mem 0xff970000-0xff9707ff]
> [ 3.103001] pci 0000:00:1f.2: can't reserve [mem 0xff970000-0xff9707ff]
>
> so I've CCed a few recent committers to setup-res.c.
>

can you try to boot with pci=nocrs ?

also please check with -rc4.

YH

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From: H. Peter Anvin on
On 04/12/2010 10:56 AM, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
>
> Linux thinks the windows are:
> pci_root PNP0A03:00: host bridge window [mem 0x000a0000-0x000bffff]
> pci_root PNP0A03:00: host bridge window [mem 0x000c0000-0x000effff]
> pci_root PNP0A03:00: host bridge window [mem 0x000f0000-0x000fffff]
>
> The 0xa0000-0xbffff one makes good sense. That's normally MMIO that's
> routed via PCI to the VGA device frame buffer, and we should be able
> to figure out how to avoid that area, e.g., by using BIOS info, PCI
> class codes, etc.
>
> Now we need to figure how to avoid the 0xc0000-0xeffff and 0xf0000-0xfffff
> windows. Maybe there's something special about how ACPI describes them.
>
> Or maybe we're just unlucky because these are the first windows in the
> _CRS list, and Linux tries them in order, while Windows uses a different
> strategy.
>

I strongly suspects that Windows knows that < 1 MB is special, and only
ever assigns it upon explicit allocation.

-hpa

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