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Re: [RESEND PATCH v2 1/4] PCI: Ignore resource_alignment if PCI_PROBE_ONLY was set\\

From Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@kernel.org>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [RESEND PATCH v2 1/4] PCI: Ignore resource_alignment if PCI_PROBE_ONLY was set\\
Date 2016-06-21 03:50 +0200
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On Thu, Jun 02, 2016 at 01:46:48PM +0800, Yongji Xie wrote:
> The resource_alignment will releases memory resources allocated
> by firmware so that kernel can reassign new resources later on.
> But this will cause the problem that no resources can be
> allocated by kernel if PCI_PROBE_ONLY was set, e.g. on pSeries
> platform because PCI_PROBE_ONLY force kernel to use firmware
> setup and not to reassign any resources.
> 
> To solve this problem, this patch ignores resource_alignment
> if PCI_PROBE_ONLY was set.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Yongji Xie <xyjxie@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> ---
>  drivers/pci/pci.c |    6 ++++++
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/pci/pci.c b/drivers/pci/pci.c
> index c8b4dbd..a259394 100644
> --- a/drivers/pci/pci.c
> +++ b/drivers/pci/pci.c
> @@ -4761,6 +4761,12 @@ static resource_size_t pci_specified_resource_alignment(struct pci_dev *dev)
>  	spin_lock(&resource_alignment_lock);
>  	p = resource_alignment_param;
>  	while (*p) {
> +		if (pci_has_flag(PCI_PROBE_ONLY)) {
> +			printk(KERN_ERR "PCI: Ignore resource_alignment parameter: %s with PCI_PROBE_ONLY set\n",
> +					p);
> +			*p = 0;
> +			break;

Wouldn't it be simpler to make pci_set_resource_alignment_param() fail
if PCI_PROBE_ONLY is set?

> +		}
>  		count = 0;
>  		if (sscanf(p, "%d%n", &align_order, &count) == 1 &&
>  							p[count] == '@') {
> -- 
> 1.7.9.5
> 
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Re: [RESEND PATCH v2 1/4] PCI: Ignore resource_alignment if  PCI_PROBE_ONLY was set\\ Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@kernel.org> - 2016-06-21 03:50 +0200
  Re: [RESEND PATCH v2 1/4] PCI: Ignore resource_alignment if  PCI_PROBE_ONLY was set\\ Yongji Xie <xyjxie@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2016-06-21 06:50 +0200
    Re: [RESEND PATCH v2 1/4] PCI: Ignore resource_alignment if  PCI_PROBE_ONLY was set\\ Yongji Xie <xyjxie@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2016-06-21 10:40 +0200

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