PCI: use _CRS for PCI resource allocation

Use _CRS for PCI resource allocation

This patch resolves an issue where incorrect PCI memory and i/o ranges
are being assigned to hotplugged PCI devices on some IBM systems.  The
resource mis-allocation not only makes the PCI device unuseable but
often makes the entire system unuseable due to resulting machine checks.

The hotplug capable PCI slots on the affected systems are not located
under a standard P2P bridge but are instead located under PCI root
bridges or subtractive decode P2P bridges.  For example, the IBM x3850
contains 2 hotplug capable PCI-X slots and 4 hotplug capable PCIe slots
with the PCI-X slots each located under a PCI root bridge and the PCIe
slots each located under a subtractive decode P2P bridge.

The current i386/x86_64 PCI resource allocation code does not use _CRS
returned resource information.  No other resource information source is
available for slots that are not below a standard P2P bridge so
incorrect ranges are being allocated from e820 hole causing the bad
result.

This patch causes the kernel to use _CRS returned resource info.  It is
roughly based on a change provided by Matthew Wilcox for the ia64 kernel
in 2005.  Due to possible buggy BIOS factor and possible yet to be
discovered kernel issues the function is disabled by default and can be
enabled with pci=use_crs.

Signed-off-by: Gary Hade <gary.hade@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
index 3f0173f45019..e9acd5540d29 100644
--- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -1318,6 +1318,8 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
                                 IRQ routing is enabled.
                 noacpi          [X86-32] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
                                 or for PCI scanning.
+                use_crs         [X86-32] Use _CRS for PCI resource
+                                allocation.
                 routeirq        Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices.
                                 This is normally done in pci_enable_device(),
                                 so this option is a temporary workaround