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SubjectRe: Rt2x00 problem traced back to x86 ACPI/PCI/e820 handling.
Gertjan van Wingerde wrote:
> Hi Ingo, Yinghai,
>
> For a while now we have seen reports of the rt2x00 driver not working correctly
> where bogus information was read from the EEPROM. This resulted in a non-functional
> driver.
> It has been established that the problem has introduced itself sometimes in the 2.6.31
> development cycle.
>
> Lately the failures have been traced back to commit 5d423ccd7ba4285f1084e91b26805e1d0ae978ed
> of a patch created by Yinghai and committed Ingo.
>
> Reverting this patch seems to fix the problems with the rt2x00 driver.
>
> Also, it has been established that another work-around is to supply the pci=use_crs boot parameter.
>
> Do any of you have any idea as to what is going on here, and if this is something where the
> rt2x00 driver is at fault, or where the x86 ACPI/PCI/e820 code is buggy?
>
> So far I can establish that all the cases for which it is known what kind of HW it is that these
> are all MSI laptops.
>
> The related bug reports are:
> http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14460
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/404596
>

[ 0.000000] BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000000e4000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000006ffd0000 (usable)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 000000006ffd0000 - 000000006ffde000 (ACPI data)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 000000006ffde000 - 0000000070000000 (ACPI NVS)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000fff80000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
...
[ 0.000000] Allocating PCI resources starting at 70000000 (gap: 70000000:8ff80000)
...

[ 0.144853] node 0 link 0: io port [1000, ffffff]
[ 0.144853] TOM: 0000000080000000 aka 2048M
[ 0.144853] node 0 link 0: mmio [bdf00000, ddeeffff]
[ 0.144853] node 0 link 0: mmio [80000000, bdefffff]
[ 0.144853] node 0 link 0: mmio [e0000000, efffffff]
[ 0.144853] node 0 link 0: mmio [ddef0000, dfffffff]
[ 0.144853] node 0 link 0: mmio [a0000, bffff]
[ 0.144853] node 0 link 0: mmio [f0000000, ffffffff]
[ 0.144853] bus: [00,ff] on node 0 link 0
[ 0.144853] bus: 00 index 0 io port: [0, ffff]
[ 0.144853] bus: 00 index 1 mmio: [80000000, dfffffff]
[ 0.144853] bus: 00 index 2 mmio: [e0000000, fcffffffff]
[ 0.144853] bus: 00 index 3 mmio: [a0000, bffff]
...

[ 0.200570] pci 0000:00:14.0: reg 14 32bit mmio: [0x000000-0x0003ff]
...
[ 0.201755] pci 0000:05:04.0: reg 10 32bit mmio: [0x000000-0x000fff]
[ 0.201765] pci 0000:05:04.0: reg 14 32bit mmio: [0x000000-0x0007ff]
[ 0.201986] pci 0000:05:04.2: reg 10 32bit mmio: [0x000000-0x0000ff]
[ 0.202215] pci 0000:05:04.3: reg 10 32bit mmio: [0x000000-0x000fff]
[ 0.202865] pci 0000:05:09.0: reg 10 32bit mmio: [0x000000-0x007fff]
[ 0.202997] pci 0000:00:14.4: transparent bridge
[ 0.203051] pci 0000:00:14.4: bridge 32bit mmio: [0x000000-0x0fffff]

..

[ 0.283503] pci 0000:00:14.4: PCI bridge, secondary bus 0000:05
[ 0.283547] pci 0000:00:14.4: IO window: disabled
[ 0.283596] pci 0000:00:14.4: MEM window: 0x70000000-0x700fffff
[ 0.283643] pci 0000:00:14.4: PREFETCH window: disabled


[ 0.283764] pci_bus 0000:05: resource 1 mem: [0x70000000-0x700fffff]


[ 2.140079] ohci1394 0000:05:04.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 20 (level, low) -> IRQ 20
[ 2.357886] ohci1394: fw-host0: Get PHY Reg timeout [0x00000000/0x00000000/100]
[ 2.399313] ohci1394: fw-host0: Set PHY Reg timeout [0x000044c0/0x00004000/100]
[ 2.494572] ohci1394: fw-host0: OHCI-1394 0.0 (PCI): IRQ=[20] MMIO=[70008000-700087ff] Max Packet=[2] IR/IT contexts=[32/32]
[ 2.529013] ohci1394: fw-host0: Get PHY Reg timeout [0x00000000/0x00000000/100]
[ 2.593817] ohci1394: fw-host0: Serial EEPROM has suspicious values, attempting to set max_packet_size to 512 bytes
[ 3.596012] ohci1394: fw-host0: Get PHY Reg timeout [0x00008500/0x00000000/100]
[ 3.695273] ohci1394: fw-host0: Set PHY Reg timeout [0x00004540/0x00004000/100]


...


and 2.6.30...

[ 0.000000] Allocating PCI resources starting at 80000000 (gap: 70000000:8ff80000)


looks like BIOS is using [0x70000000 - 0x80000000] 235M ram range for some purpose.

please try this on top of 2.6.32.

diff --git a/arch/x86/pci/amd_bus.c b/arch/x86/pci/amd_bus.c
index 572ee97..44f7c3d 100644
--- a/arch/x86/pci/amd_bus.c
+++ b/arch/x86/pci/amd_bus.c
@@ -48,8 +48,8 @@ void x86_pci_root_bus_res_quirks(struct pci_bus *b)
b->resource[1] != &iomem_resource)
return;

- /* if only one root bus, don't need to anything */
- if (pci_root_num < 2)
+ /* if no reading for pci conf, don't need to do anything */
+ if (!pci_root_num)
return;

for (i = 0; i < pci_root_num; i++) {


YH




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