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Revision 4dc2287c1805e7fe8a7cb90bbcd44abee8cdb914 authored by Bjorn Helgaas on 16 December 2010, 17:38:56 UTC, committed by Jesse Barnes on 17 December 2010, 18:01:24 UTC
When we allocate address space, e.g., to assign it to a PCI device, don't
allocate anything mentioned in the BIOS E820 memory map.

On recent machines (2008 and newer), we assign PCI resources from the
windows described by the ACPI PCI host bridge _CRS.  On many Dell
machines, these windows overlap some E820 reserved areas, e.g.,

    BIOS-e820: 00000000bfe4dc00 - 00000000c0000000 (reserved)
    pci_root PNP0A03:00: host bridge window [mem 0xbff00000-0xdfffffff]

If we put devices at 0xbff00000, they don't work, probably because
that's really RAM, not I/O memory.  This patch prevents that by removing
the 0xbfe4dc00-0xbfffffff area from the "available" resource.

I'm not very happy with this solution because Windows solves the problem
differently (it seems to ignore E820 reserved areas and it allocates
top-down instead of bottom-up; details at comment 45 of the bugzilla
below).  That means we're vulnerable to BIOS defects that Windows would not
trip over.  For example, if BIOS described a device in ACPI but didn't
mention it in E820, Windows would work fine but Linux would fail.

Reference: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16228
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
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Tip revision: 4dc2287c1805e7fe8a7cb90bbcd44abee8cdb914 authored by Bjorn Helgaas on 16 December 2010, 17:38:56 UTC
x86: avoid E820 regions when allocating address space
Tip revision: 4dc2287
Makefile
###
# scripts contains sources for various helper programs used throughout
# the kernel for the build process.
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# kallsyms:      Find all symbols in vmlinux
# pnmttologo:    Convert pnm files to logo files
# conmakehash:   Create chartable
# conmakehash:	 Create arrays for initializing the kernel console tables

hostprogs-$(CONFIG_KALLSYMS)     += kallsyms
hostprogs-$(CONFIG_LOGO)         += pnmtologo
hostprogs-$(CONFIG_VT)           += conmakehash
hostprogs-$(CONFIG_IKCONFIG)     += bin2c
hostprogs-$(BUILD_C_RECORDMCOUNT) += recordmcount

always		:= $(hostprogs-y) $(hostprogs-m)

# The following hostprogs-y programs are only build on demand
hostprogs-y += unifdef

subdir-$(CONFIG_MODVERSIONS) += genksyms
subdir-y                     += mod
subdir-$(CONFIG_SECURITY_SELINUX) += selinux
subdir-$(CONFIG_DTC)         += dtc

# Let clean descend into subdirs
subdir-	+= basic kconfig package selinux
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