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Re: [tip:x86/platform] x86/PCI/mmcfg: Switch to ECAM config mode if possible

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> Hi Thomas,
> 
> Would this patch actually void the commit:

Yes it does. My origina; patches were opt-in for this reason, but Thomas doesn't
believe in historical or other people's experience.

But MCFG problems were a long time ago and noone uses these systems anymore,
so perhaps he is right.

-Andi

> 
> commit a0ca9909609470ad779b9b9cc68ce96e975afff7
> Author: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
> Date:   Mon Jan 14 17:31:09 2008 -0500
> 
>     PCI x86: always use conf1 to access config space below 256 bytes
> 
>     Thanks to Loic Prylli <loic@myri.com>, who originally proposed
>     this idea.
> 
>     Always using legacy configuration mechanism for the legacy config space
>     and extended mechanism (mmconf) for the extended config space is
>     a simple and very logical approach. It's supposed to resolve all
>     known mmconf problems. It still allows per-device quirks (tweaking
>     dev->cfg_size). It also allows to get rid of mmconf fallback code.
> 
>     Signed-off-by: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
>     Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com>
>     Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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[tip:x86/platform] x86/PCI/mmcfg: Switch to ECAM config mode if  possible tip-bot for Thomas Gleixner <tipbot@zytor.com> - 2017-06-29 09:00 +0200
  Re: [tip:x86/platform] x86/PCI/mmcfg: Switch to ECAM config mode if possible Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> - 2017-06-30 01:30 +0200
    Re: [tip:x86/platform] x86/PCI/mmcfg: Switch to ECAM config mode if  possible Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> - 2017-06-30 05:20 +0200
      Re: [tip:x86/platform] x86/PCI/mmcfg: Switch to ECAM config mode if  possible Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> - 2017-06-30 16:40 +0200
        Re: [tip:x86/platform] x86/PCI/mmcfg: Switch to ECAM config mode if possible Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> - 2017-06-30 19:20 +0200
          Re: [tip:x86/platform] x86/PCI/mmcfg: Switch to ECAM config mode if  possible Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> - 2017-06-30 20:50 +0200
          Re: [tip:x86/platform] x86/PCI/mmcfg: Switch to ECAM config mode if  possible Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru> - 2017-06-30 21:10 +0200

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