Commit 30919b0bf3 ("x86: avoid low BIOS area when allocating address
space") moved the test for resource allocations that fall within the first
1MB of address space from the PCI-specific path to a generic path, such
that all resource allocations will avoid this area. However, this breaks
ISA cards which need to allocate a memory region within the first 1MB. An
example is the i82365 PCMCIA controller and derivatives like the Ricoh
RF5C296/396 which map part of the PCMCIA socket memory address space into
the first 1MB of system memory address space. They do not work anymore as
no usable memory region exists due to this change:
Intel ISA PCIC probe: Ricoh RF5C296/396 ISA-to-PCMCIA at port 0x3e0 ofs 0x00, 2 sockets
host opts [0]: none
host opts [1]: none
ISA irqs (scanned) = 3,4,5,9,10 status change on irq 10
pcmcia_socket pcmcia_socket1: pccard: PCMCIA card inserted into slot 1
pcmcia_socket pcmcia_socket0: cs: IO port probe 0xc00-0xcff: excluding 0xcf8-0xcff
pcmcia_socket pcmcia_socket0: cs: IO port probe 0xa00-0xaff: clean.
pcmcia_socket pcmcia_socket0: cs: IO port probe 0x100-0x3ff: excluding 0x170-0x177 0x1f0-0x1f7 0x2f8-0x2ff 0x370-0x37f 0x3c0-0x3e7 0x3f0-0x3ff
pcmcia_socket pcmcia_socket0: cs: memory probe 0x0a0000-0x0affff: excluding 0xa0000-0xaffff
pcmcia_socket pcmcia_socket0: cs: memory probe 0x0b0000-0x0bffff: excluding 0xb0000-0xbffff
pcmcia_socket pcmcia_socket0: cs: memory probe 0x0c0000-0x0cffff: excluding 0xc0000-0xcbfff
pcmcia_socket pcmcia_socket0: cs: memory probe 0x0d0000-0x0dffff: clean.
pcmcia_socket pcmcia_socket0: cs: memory probe 0x0e0000-0x0effff: clean.
pcmcia_socket pcmcia_socket0: cs: memory probe 0x60000000-0x60ffffff: clean.
pcmcia_socket pcmcia_socket0: cs: memory probe 0xa0000000-0xa0ffffff: clean.
pcmcia_socket pcmcia_socket1: cs: IO port probe 0xc00-0xcff: excluding 0xcf8-0xcff
pcmcia_socket pcmcia_socket1: cs: IO port probe 0xa00-0xaff: clean.
pcmcia_socket pcmcia_socket1: cs: IO port probe 0x100-0x3ff: excluding 0x170-0x177 0x1f0-0x1f7 0x2f8-0x2ff 0x370-0x37f 0x3c0-0x3e7 0x3f0-0x3ff
pcmcia_socket pcmcia_socket1: cs: memory probe 0x0a0000-0x0affff: excluding 0xa0000-0xaffff
pcmcia_socket pcmcia_socket1: cs: memory probe 0x0b0000-0x0bffff: excluding 0xb0000-0xbffff
pcmcia_socket pcmcia_socket1: cs: memory probe 0x0c0000-0x0cffff: excluding 0xc0000-0xcbfff
pcmcia_socket pcmcia_socket1: cs: memory probe 0x0d0000-0x0dffff: clean.
pcmcia_socket pcmcia_socket1: cs: memory probe 0x0e0000-0x0effff: clean.
pcmcia_socket pcmcia_socket1: cs: memory probe 0x60000000-0x60ffffff: clean.
pcmcia_socket pcmcia_socket1: cs: memory probe 0xa0000000-0xa0ffffff: clean.
pcmcia_socket pcmcia_socket1: cs: memory probe 0x0cc000-0x0effff: excluding 0xe0000-0xeffff
pcmcia_socket pcmcia_socket1: cs: unable to map card memory!
If filtering out the first 1MB is reverted, everything works as expected.
Tested-by: Robert Resch <fli4l@robert.reschpara.de>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Schulz <develop@kristov.de>
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
CC: stable@vger.kernel.org # v2.6.37+
This prevents allocation of the last 2MB before 4GB.
The experiment described here shows Windows 7 ignoring the last 1MB:
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23542#c27
This patch ignores the top 2MB instead of just 1MB because H. Peter Anvin
says "There will be ROM at the top of the 32-bit address space; it's a fact
of the architecture, and on at least older systems it was common to have a
shadow 1 MiB below."
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
When we allocate address space, e.g., to assign it to a PCI device, don't
allocate anything mentioned in the BIOS E820 memory map.
On recent machines (2008 and newer), we assign PCI resources from the
windows described by the ACPI PCI host bridge _CRS. On many Dell
machines, these windows overlap some E820 reserved areas, e.g.,
BIOS-e820: 00000000bfe4dc00 - 00000000c0000000 (reserved)
pci_root PNP0A03:00: host bridge window [mem 0xbff00000-0xdfffffff]
If we put devices at 0xbff00000, they don't work, probably because
that's really RAM, not I/O memory. This patch prevents that by removing
the 0xbfe4dc00-0xbfffffff area from the "available" resource.
I'm not very happy with this solution because Windows solves the problem
differently (it seems to ignore E820 reserved areas and it allocates
top-down instead of bottom-up; details at comment 45 of the bugzilla
below). That means we're vulnerable to BIOS defects that Windows would not
trip over. For example, if BIOS described a device in ACPI but didn't
mention it in E820, Windows would work fine but Linux would fail.
Reference: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16228
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
This implements arch_remove_reservations() so allocate_resource() can
avoid any arch-specific reserved areas. This currently just avoids the
BIOS area (the first 1MB), but could be used for E820 reserved areas if
that turns out to be necessary.
We previously avoided this area in pcibios_align_resource(). This patch
moves the test from that PCI-specific path to a generic path, so *all*
resource allocations will avoid this area.
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
Christoph Schulz