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authorBjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>2009-06-18 14:46:47 -0600
committerLen Brown <len.brown@intel.com>2009-06-20 00:01:50 -0400
commitfbe2b31b4b6dfa790cbc88e00631f3112c4fc54e (patch)
tree357bb92c83997b667a7b78b6214d1ec9d39deb29 /Documentation/RCU
parent07a2039b8eb0af4ff464efd3dfd95de5c02648c6 (diff)
ACPI: pci_root: check _CRS, then _BBN for downstream bus number
To find a host bridge's downstream bus number, we currently look at _BBN first. If _BBN returns a bus number we've already seen, we conclude that _BBN was wrong and look for a bus number in _CRS. However, the spec[1] (figure 5-5 and the example in sec 9.12.1) and an ACPI FAQ[2] suggest that the OS should use _CRS to discover the bus number range, and that _BBN is really intended to bootstrap _CRS methods that reference PCI opregions. This patch makes us always look at _CRS first. If _CRS doesn't supply a bus number, we look at _BBN. If _BBN doesn't exist, we default to zero. This makes the behavior consistent regardless of device discovery order. Previously, if A and B had duplicate _BBNs and we found A first, we'd only look at B's _CRS, whereas if we found B first, we'd only look at A's _CRS. I'm told that Windows discovers host bridge bus numbers using _CRS, so it should be fairly safe to rely on this BIOS functionality. This patch also removes two misleading messages: we printed the "Wrong _BBN value, reboot and use option 'pci=noacpi'" message before looking at _CRS, so we would likely find the bus number in _CRS, the system would work fine, and the user would be confused. The "PCI _CRS %d overrides _BBN 0" message incorrectly assumes _BBN was zero, and it's useless anyway because we print the segment/bus number a few lines later. References: [1] http://www.acpi.info/DOWNLOADS/ACPIspec30b.pdf [2] http://www.acpi.info/acpi_faq.htm _BBN/_CRS discussion http://download.microsoft.com/download/9/8/f/98f3fe47-dfc3-4e74-92a3-088782200fe7/TWAR05005_WinHEC05.ppt (slide 17) http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1662 ASUS PR-DLS http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1127 ASUS PR-DLSW http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1741 ASUS PR-DLS533 Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> Reviewed-by: Alex Chiang <achiang@hp.com> CC: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com> CC: Kenji Kaneshige <kaneshige.kenji@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
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