Re: [RFC PATCH 2/3] PCI: Pass available resources into pci_create_bus()

[Deng-Cheng Zhu <dengcheng.zhu@gmail.com>]

2011/8/24 Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>:
> I like this approach a lot.  Thanks for working it up.  It's a nice
> small change with very little impact to other architectures, and you
> have a nice clear changelog.  You might mention something about the
> fact that by default, the bus starts out with all of ioport_resource
> and iomem_resource -- that will mean something to people who know how
> host bridges work.

Thanks! And I'll add this info to the patch description.

> Using pci_bus_add_resource() here *seems* like it should be the right
> thing, but I don't think it will work correctly.
>
> The problem is that struct pci_bus has both a table of resources
> (bus->resource[]) *and* a list (bus->resources).
> pci_bus_add_resource() always puts the new resource on the list, but
> various arch code still references the table directly, e.g., sparc has
> "pbus->resource[0] = &pbm->io_space" in pcibios_fixup_bus().
>
> As written, I think this patch will break sparc because the host
> bridge will end up with both pbm->io_space (in the table) and
> ioport_resource (in the list).

Good catch! I overlooked this point.

> I think something like this would work, though:
>
>    if (bus_res)
>        list_add_tail(&b->resources, &bus_res->list);
>    else {
>        b->resource[0] = &ioport_resource;
>        b->resource[1] = &iomem_resource;
>    }

Yes, it should work.


Thanks again for your time,

Deng-Cheng