On Sun, 5 Aug 2007 10:53:07 +0300 Muli Ben-Yehuda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> This patch finishes the i386 and x86-64 ->sysdata conversion and > hopefully also fixes Riku's and Andy's observed bugs. It is based on > Yinghai Lu's and Andy Whitcroft's patches (thanks!) with some changes: > > - introduce pci_scan_bus_with_sysdata() and use it instead of > pci_scan_bus() where appropriate. pci_scan_bus_with_sysdata() will > allocate the sysdata structure and then call pci_scan_bus(). > - always allocate pci_sysdata dynamically. The whole point of this > sysdata work is to make it easy to do root-bus specific things > (e.g., support PCI domains and IOMMU's). I dislike using a default > struct pci_sysdata in some places and a dynamically allocated > pci_sysdata elsewhere - the potential for someone indavertantly > changing the default structure is too high. > - this patch only makes the minimal changes necessary, i.e., the NUMA node is > always initialized to -1. Patches to do the right thing with regards > to the NUMA node can build on top of this (either add a 'node' > parameter to pci_scan_bus_with_sysdata() or just update the node > when it becomes known). > > The patch was compile tested with various configurations (e.g., NUMAQ, > VISWS) and run-time tested on i386 and x86-64. Unfortunately none of > my machines exhibited the bugs so caveat emptor. > > Andy, could you please see if this fixes the NUMA issues you've seen? > Riku, does this fix "pci=noacpi" on your laptop? I am sooooooo tired of this thing. Andi, someone, can we for heaven's sake please just get it all sorted out? I dropped two of Yinghai's patches which conflicted with this, and then two more which looked like they depended on the dropped ones. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
