2.6.37-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let us know.

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From: Stephen Kitt <[email protected]>

commit a70b95c017e8b518e1e069853355e4e497453dbb upstream.

Some BIOSs (eg.  the AMI BIOS on the Asus P4P800 motherboard) don't
initialise the GART address, and pcibios_assign_resources() can ignore it
because it can be marked as a host bridge (see
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24392#c5 for details).  This
was handled correctly up to 2.6.35, but the pci_enable_device() cleanup in
2.6.36 96576a9e1a0cdb8 ("agp: intel-agp: do not use PCI resources before
pci_enable_device()") means that the kernel tries to enable the GART
before assigning it an address; in such cases the GART overlaps with other
device assignments and ends up being disabled.

This patch fixes https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24392

Note that I imagine efficeon-agp.c probably has the same problem, but
I can't test that and I'd like to make sure this patch is suitable for
-stable (since 2.6.36 and 2.6.37 are affected).

Signed-off-by: Stephen Kitt <[email protected]>
Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <[email protected]>
Cc: Maciej Rutecki <[email protected]>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <[email protected]>
Cc: Kulikov Vasiliy <[email protected]>
Cc: Florian Mickler <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>

---
 drivers/char/agp/intel-agp.c |   27 ++++++++++++++++-----------
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/char/agp/intel-agp.c
+++ b/drivers/char/agp/intel-agp.c
@@ -774,20 +774,14 @@ static int __devinit agp_intel_probe(str
        dev_info(&pdev->dev, "Intel %s Chipset\n", intel_agp_chipsets[i].name);
 
        /*
-       * If the device has not been properly setup, the following will catch
-       * the problem and should stop the system from crashing.
-       * 20030610 - [email protected]
-       */
-       if (pci_enable_device(pdev)) {
-               dev_err(&pdev->dev, "can't enable PCI device\n");
-               agp_put_bridge(bridge);
-               return -ENODEV;
-       }
-
-       /*
        * The following fixes the case where the BIOS has "forgotten" to
        * provide an address range for the GART.
        * 20030610 - [email protected]
+       * This happens before pci_enable_device() intentionally;
+       * calling pci_enable_device() before assigning the resource
+       * will result in the GART being disabled on machines with such
+       * BIOSs (the GART ends up with a BAR starting at 0, which
+       * conflicts a lot of other devices).
        */
        r = &pdev->resource[0];
        if (!r->start && r->end) {
@@ -798,6 +792,17 @@ static int __devinit agp_intel_probe(str
                }
        }
 
+       /*
+       * If the device has not been properly setup, the following will catch
+       * the problem and should stop the system from crashing.
+       * 20030610 - [email protected]
+       */
+       if (pci_enable_device(pdev)) {
+               dev_err(&pdev->dev, "can't enable PCI device\n");
+               agp_put_bridge(bridge);
+               return -ENODEV;
+       }
+
        /* Fill in the mode register */
        if (cap_ptr) {
                pci_read_config_dword(pdev,


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