>>> On 22.09.11 at 17:44, "Kulkarni, Shanti" <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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.

Seems like I was wrong with the assumption that this would be a
problem with the native kernel too. There was a resource handling
change in 2.6.37 that isn't compatible with the Xen kernel's memory
handling, which precludes resource re-assignment on any system
with (roughly) memory extending past the 4G boundary.

Jan

> 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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