Re: lock-up on boot with x86/PCI/ACPI: Use common interface to support PCI host bridge

From: Jiang Liu
Date: Mon Nov 09 2015 - 02:52:39 EST


This is a multi-part message in MIME format.On 2015/11/7 15:56, Arthur Marsh wrote:
> Hi, I've run into a situation where I've been getting a lock-up a few
> seconds into the boot process on a machine with an ASUS A8V-MX
> motherboard, BIOS 0503 12/06/2005 with AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor
> 3200+ (single core) with kernel compiled in 32 bit mode (config attached
> was used for both the problem kernel and kernel with the patch reverted,
> dmesg attached was for the kernel with the patch reverted).
>
> A git bisect traced the problem back to:
>
> git bisect good
> 4d6b4e69a245e9df4b84dba387596086cb66887d is the first bad commit
> commit 4d6b4e69a245e9df4b84dba387596086cb66887d
> Author: Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Wed Oct 14 14:29:41 2015 +0800
>
> x86/PCI/ACPI: Use common interface to support PCI host bridge
>
> Use common interface to simplify ACPI PCI host bridge implementation.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Hanjun Guo <hanjun.guo@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> :040000 040000 a3447eea376b5a3e6f57deb35cf064c5481b45e3
> f64d8e49fd87b776933dfa3dfefcb33509004d3f M arch
>
> From the boot-up I get the message as shown in the images at:
> http://www.users.on.net/~arthur.marsh/20151107601.jpg and
> http://www.users.on.net/~arthur.marsh/20151107602.jpg
>
> The boot-up suggests trying rebooting with pci=alloc but that didn't help.
>
> The errors shown include
> "BAR 0: trying firmware assignment [io size 0x0020]"
> "BAR 0: [io size 0x0020] conflicts with PCI Bus #00 [io 0x0000-0xffff]
> "BAR 0: failed to assign [io size 0x0020]
>
> After reverting the patch and installing the resulting kernel I was able
> to boot normally.
>
> I'd be happy to provide any further information and run further tests to
> help identify and resolve the proble.
Hi Arthur,
Could you please help to try the attached test patch?
Thanks,
Gerry

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