Re: [patch] fix 64-vbit prefetchable memory resource BARs

From: Bjorn Helgaas
Date: Mon Nov 03 2008 - 15:43:00 EST


On Sunday 12 October 2008 06:49:04 pm Peter Chubb wrote:
> Since patch 6ac665c63dcac8fcec534a1d224ecbb8b867ad59
> my infiniband controller hasn't worked. This is because it has
> 64-bit prefetchable memory, which was mistakenly being taken to be
> 32-bit memory. The resource flags in this case are
> PCI_BASE_ADDRESS_MEM_TYPE_64|PCI_BASE_ADDRESS_MEM_PREFETCH.
>
> This patch checks only for the PCI_BASE_ADDRESS_MEM_TYPE_64 bit; thus
> whether the region is prefetchable or not is ignored. This fixes my
> Infiniband.

I think this patch needs to be put in a 2.6.27-stable release.

Without it, we ignore the upper bits of 64-bit prefetchable BARs.

This is commit e354597cce8d219d135d65e585dc4f30323486b9 in Linus's
tree.

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=e354597cce8d219d135d65e585dc4f30323486b9

> Signed-off-by: Peter Chubb <peterc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Index: linux-2.6-git/drivers/pci/probe.c
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6-git.orig/drivers/pci/probe.c 2008-10-13 10:49:46.012798465 +1100
> +++ linux-2.6-git/drivers/pci/probe.c 2008-10-13 11:35:43.016329442 +1100
> @@ -219,7 +219,7 @@
>
> res->flags = bar & ~PCI_BASE_ADDRESS_MEM_MASK;
>
> - if (res->flags == PCI_BASE_ADDRESS_MEM_TYPE_64)
> + if (res->flags & PCI_BASE_ADDRESS_MEM_TYPE_64)
> return pci_bar_mem64;
> return pci_bar_mem32;
> }
>
>
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