[PATCH]: PNP: Increase the value of PNP constant

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To: <linux-kernel@...>
Cc: <akpm@...>, <shaohua.li@...>
Date: Friday, November 16, 2007 - 3:39 am

Subject: PNP: Increase the value of PNP constant
From: Zhao Yakui <yakui.zhao@intel.com>

On some systems the number of resources(IO,MEM) returnedy by PNP
device is greater than the PNP constant, for example motherboard devices.
It brings that some resources can't be reserved and resource confilicts.
This will cause PCI resources are assigned wrongly in some systems, and
cause hang. This is a regression since we deleted ACPI motherboard
driver and use PNP system driver.

Andrew, I thought this is an urgent issue and should be fixed ASAP, and
this is a good candidate for -stable tree

Signed-off-by: Li Shaohua <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Zhao Yakui <yakui.zhao@intel.com>

---
drivers/pnp/pnpacpi/rsparser.c | 18 ++++++++++++++++--
include/linux/pnp.h | 4 ++--
2 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

Index: linux-2.6.24-rc2/include/linux/pnp.h
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.24-rc2.orig/include/linux/pnp.h
+++ linux-2.6.24-rc2/include/linux/pnp.h
@@ -13,8 +13,8 @@
#include <linux/errno.h>
#include <linux/mod_devicetable.h>

-#define PNP_MAX_PORT 8
-#define PNP_MAX_MEM 4
+#define PNP_MAX_PORT 24
+#define PNP_MAX_MEM 12
#define PNP_MAX_IRQ 2
#define PNP_MAX_DMA 2
#define PNP_NAME_LEN 50
Index: linux-2.6.24-rc2/drivers/pnp/pnpacpi/rsparser.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.24-rc2.orig/drivers/pnp/pnpacpi/rsparser.c
+++ linux-2.6.24-rc2/drivers/pnp/pnpacpi/rsparser.c
@@ -82,9 +82,11 @@ static void pnpacpi_parse_allocated_irqr
while (!(res->irq_resource[i].flags & IORESOURCE_UNSET) &&
i < PNP_MAX_IRQ)
i++;
- if (i >= PNP_MAX_IRQ)
+ if (i >= PNP_MAX_IRQ) {
+ printk(KERN_ERR "Exceed the max number of IRQ resource: "
+ "%d \n",PNP_MAX_IRQ);
return;
-
+ }
#ifdef CONFIG_X86
if (gsi < 16 && (triggering != ACPI_EDGE_SENSITIVE ||
pol...

To: Zhao Yakui <yakui.zhao@...>
Cc: <linux-kernel@...>, <akpm@...>, <shaohua.li@...>, Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@...>
Date: Friday, November 16, 2007 - 12:52 pm

This fairly significantly grows (for example?) a struct pnp_resource_table.
Are 24 and 12 really sensible?

Rene.
-

To: Rene Herman <rene.herman@...>
Cc: Zhao Yakui <yakui.zhao@...>, <linux-kernel@...>, <akpm@...>, <shaohua.li@...>, Thomas Renninger <trenn@...>
Date: Friday, November 16, 2007 - 4:46 pm

Thomas Renninger is working on PNP patches so we can accomodate any
number of resources. We had talked about an interim solution like
the one Shaohua is proposing, but thought the space overhead was
objectionable:

However, we did not realize that switching from the ACPI motherboard
driver to the PNP driver would cause a regression. Since that's the
case, I don't think we have much choice -- I think we have to either
increase the table sizes until we can handle things dynamically, or
switch back to the ACPI motherboard driver until we have Thomas's
work. For a -stable patch, I think enlarging the tables is safer.

The space analysis above was based on increasing PNP_MAX_PORT from
8 to 32 and PNP_MAX_IRQ from 2 to 4 (total increase of 26 resources
per device). Shaohua's patch adds 16 port and 8 mem resources for
an increase of 24, so will use slightly less space.

-

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