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SubjectRe: [PATCH] x86/PCI: Ignore CPU non-addressable _CRS reserved memory resources
On Mon, 14 Nov 2011 15:42:16 -0800
Gary Hade <garyhade@us.ibm.com> wrote:

>
> From: Gary Hade <garyhade@us.ibm.com>
>
> This assures that a _CRS reserved host bridge window or
> window region is not used if it is not addressable by
> the CPU. The new code either trims the window to exclude
> the non-addressable portion or totally ignores the window
> if the entire window is non-addressable.
>
> The current code has been shown to be problematic with
> 32-bit non-PAE kernels on systems where _CRS reserves
> resources above 4GB.
>
> Signed-off-by: Gary Hade <garyhade@us.ibm.com>
> Reviewed-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
> Cc: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
> Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
> Cc: Thomas Renninger <trenn@novell.com>
> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> Cc: stable@kernel.org
> ---

Applied to linux-next (don't want to send something this fundamental to
Linus at this late stage). It can land in stable if it turns out ok in
-rc1.

Thanks,
--
Jesse Barnes, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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