It works properly using the last OS 11.2 2.6.31 kernel on top of 11.4,
so I opened a bug
(https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=719858). Thanks for your
help.

On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 9:07 AM, Jan Beulich <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> On 22.09.11 at 15:40, "Kulkarni, Shanti" <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Here is the kernel log for the new kernel (2.6.37).  You're correct
>> that I no longer have the old kernel installed. From my limited
>> research on the subject I think the entry "[    0.188870] pci
>> 0000:04:00.1: reg 10: [mem 0xfe6fec00-0xfe6fecff]" means that the
>> offending device is not being realigned, otherwise it would start on a
>> multiple of 0x1000.
>
> You didn't read on - the message stating that the code doing the
> alignment got triggered follows immediately.
>
>> [    0.180274] pci 0000:00:14.2: [1002:4383] type 0 class 0x000403
>> [    0.180296] pci 0000:00:14.2: reg 10: [mem 0xfe2f8000-0xfe2fbfff 64bit]
>> [    0.180341] pci 0000:00:14.2: Disabling memory decoding and
>> releasing memory resources.
>> [    0.180435] pci 0000:00:14.2: PME# supported from D0 D3hot D3cold
>> [    0.180439] pci 0000:00:14.2: PME# disabled
>>...
>> [    0.188602] pci 0000:04:00.0: [1033:0035] type 0 class 0x000c03
>> [    0.188627] pci 0000:04:00.0: reg 10: [mem 0xfe6ff000-0xfe6fffff]
>> [    0.188711] pci 0000:04:00.0: Disabling memory decoding and
>> releasing memory resources.
>> [    0.188814] pci 0000:04:00.0: supports D1 D2
>> [    0.188816] pci 0000:04:00.0: PME# supported from D0 D1 D2 D3hot
>> [    0.188821] pci 0000:04:00.0: PME# disabled
>> [    0.188844] pci 0000:04:00.1: [1033:00e0] type 0 class 0x000c03
>> [    0.188870] pci 0000:04:00.1: reg 10: [mem 0xfe6fec00-0xfe6fecff]
>> [    0.188953] pci 0000:04:00.1: Disabling memory decoding and
>> releasing memory resources.
>
> (namely here)
>
>> [    0.189038] pci 0000:04:00.1: Rounding up size of resource #0 to 0x1000.
>
> (and here)
>
>> [    0.189126] pci 0000:04:00.1: supports D1 D2
>> [    0.189127] pci 0000:04:00.1: PME# supported from D0 D1 D2 D3hot
>> [    0.189132] pci 0000:04:00.1: PME# disabled
>> [    0.189166] pci 0000:04:01.0: [1033:00e7] type 0 class 0x000c00
>> [    0.189192] pci 0000:04:01.0: reg 10: [mem 0xfe6fd000-0xfe6fdfff]
>> [    0.189275] pci 0000:04:01.0: Disabling memory decoding and
>> releasing memory resources.
>> [    0.189393] pci 0000:04:01.0: supports D1 D2
>> [    0.189394] pci 0000:04:01.0: PME# supported from D0 D1 D2 D3hot
>> [    0.189399] pci 0000:04:01.0: PME# disabled
>>...
>
> And then:
>
>> [    0.227832] pci 0000:00:14.2: BAR 0: can't assign mem (size 0x4000)
>>...
>
> and further
>
>> [    0.228453] pci 0000:04:00.0: BAR 0: can't assign mem (size 0x1000)
>> [    0.228516] pci 0000:04:00.1: BAR 0: can't assign mem (size 0x1000)
>> [    0.228579] pci 0000:04:01.0: BAR 0: can't assign mem (size 0x1000)
>
> That seems to be a problem not only with the Xen kernel (just try passing
> the same options to the native kernel and see whether you get the same
> errors), and is certainly dependent on how the BIOS does its original
> resource assignment.
>
> I'd suggest opening a bug (as it should minimally be able to re-use the
> BIOS-assigned memory ranges that already were 4k-aligned), but you
> should expect being asked to supply information documenting that this
> in fact worked on 2.6.31 (for this to be considered a regression).
>
> Jan
>
>
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