Re: [PATCH] PCI bus number management

From: Thomas Hoffmann <trh411_at_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2014 14:54:05 -0500
On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 2:47 PM, Thomas Hoffmann <trh411_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 2:37 PM, John Baldwin <jhb_at_freebsd.org> wrote:
>
>> I have a patch to teach the PCI bus code and PCI-PCI bridge driver to
>> manage
>> PCI bus numbers.  The approach is somewhat similar to how NEW_PCIB
>> manages I/O
>> windows for briges.  Each bridge creates an rman to manage the bus
>> numbers for
>> all buses and bridges that live below it.  Each bus allocates a bus
>> resource
>> from its parent bridge, and child bridges allocate their ranges from their
>> parent devices.  At the "top" of the PCI tree, the Host-PCI bridges
>> allocate
>> their respective bus ranges from their PCI domain/segment.  There isn't
>> really
>> a device node for PCI domains, so I created a helper API that basically
>> auto-
>> creates a PCI bus rman for each domain on first use and then sub-allocates
>> from that for Host-PCI bridges.
>>
>> The current patch (with some extra debugging) is at
>> http://people.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/patches/pci_bus_rman.3.patch
>>
>> I would like to commit this to HEAD soon but thought I would post it for
>> some
>> pre-commit testing for the brave. :)  If you are really brave, try booting
>> with 'hw.pci.clear_buses=1' which will force the kernel to renumber all
>> buses
>> in the system.  If you are really, really brave, try booting with
>> 'hw.pci.clear_bars=1', 'hw.pci.clear_buses=1', and 'hw.pci.clear_pcib=1'.
>>  (My
>> laptop survives with all those set)
>>
>> Note that the patch only enables bus number management on amd64 and i386.
>>  I
>> believe ia64 just needs to define PCI_RES_BUS for this to work since it
>> mandates ACPI.  Porting this to other platforms requires handling
>> PCI_RES_BUS
>> rseources for Host-PCI bridges in bus_alloc_resource(),
>> bus_adjust_resource(),
>> and bus_release_resource().
>>
>> --
>> John Baldwin
>>
>
> I get a "404 - Not Found" trying to follow the link.
>

Got it by backing up one level on the link and selecting form the list.
Received on Thu Feb 06 2014 - 18:54:06 UTC

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