Starting from 2.6.34, USB devices are recognized only if pci=nocrs is used. Attached is output of lspci, dmesg etc for various versions
Created attachment 36192 [details] output of lspci, dmesg etc
cc bjorn.
Sergey, thank you very much for the report and detailed logs. Some significant changes in this area appeared in 2.6.37-rc1, and I'm pretty sure that will work on your system (please test it if you can). However, I think there's still a problem we need to fix. Here's what I think is happening. The BIOS didn't assign space for the 00:1d.7 USB BAR, so Linux did it. Without _CRS, we guess that the [mem 0x80000000-0xdfffffff] region is available for PCI devices, based on these E820 entries: BIOS-e820: 000000007f6f0000 - 0000000080000000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 00000000e0000000 - 00000000f0000000 (reserved) Allocating PCI resources starting at 80000000 (gap: 80000000:60000000) If we look at /proc/iomem, looking for space from low addresses to high, [mem 0x942c4000-0x942c43ff] is the first available place to put the 00:1d.7 USB device, which works fine: 7f6f0000-7fffffff : reserved 80000000-8fffffff : 0000:00:02.0 90000000-90ffffff : PCI Bus 0000:01 91000000-91ffffff : PCI Bus 0000:02 92000000-930fffff : PCI Bus 0000:02 93100000-941fffff : PCI Bus 0000:01 94200000-9427ffff : 0000:00:02.0 94280000-942bffff : 0000:00:02.0 942c0000-942c3fff : 0000:00:1b.0 942c4000-942c43ff : 0000:00:1d.7 (** assigned by Linux **) e0000000-efffffff : PCI MMCONFIG 0000 [bus 00-ff] When Linux pays attention to the host bridge _CRS, as it does by default starting in 2.6.34, we no longer just guess at what's available. Instead, we use the _CRS information: pci_root PNP0A08:00: host bridge window [mem 0x7f800000-0x7fffffff] pci_root PNP0A08:00: host bridge window [mem 0x80000000-0xfebfffff] Note that the entire first window ([mem 0x7f800000-0x7fffffff]) is "reserved" according to the E820 table. I think it's a video framebuffer: uvesafb: framebuffer at 0x7f800000, mapped to 0xf8100000, using 7872k ... I suppose this region is connected with the 00:02.0 video device (though it doesn't appear in any BARs), so it makes some sense that the _CRS tells us it's routed to PCI bus 00. Now, here's the rub: we do try to pay attention to the fact that E820 tells us the area is reserved, but we don't do it correctly. Here's what it looks like in /proc/iomem: 7f6f0000-7fffffff : reserved 7f800000-7fffffff : PCI Bus 0000:00 80000000-febfffff : PCI Bus 0000:00 When we allocate space for the 00:1d.7 USB device, we look for available space *below* the PCI Bus 0000:00 resources. We never look *up* at the parents of those resources, so the 7f6f0000-7fffffff reserved area doesn't affect the allocation at all. The result is that we assign some of that framebuffer space to the USB device, which doesn't work because accesses go to the framebuffer instead of to the USB device: pci 0000:00:1d.7: BAR 0: assigned [mem 0x7f800000-0x7f8003ff] I think 2.6.37-rc1 will work on your machine because we'll allocate from the top down instead of from the bottom up, so we'll probably get a region like [mem 0xfebffc00-0xfebfffff]. But of course, we still haven't fixed the underlying problem of ignoring the E820 reservations.
Thank you Bjorn for your comprehensive explanation. Indeed 2.6.37-rc1 worked fine.
the bug reported by Sergey has been fixed in 2.6.37-rc1 kernel. there is another bug (In reply to comment #3) > But of course, we still haven't fixed the underlying problem of ignoring > the E820 reservations. but that should be in another bug report, if needed.
I disagree that Sergey's bug has been fixed. It just happens that the 2.6.37-rc1 changes cover it up, but this is a perfect example of a problem caused by Linux ignoring E820 reservations. So I don't think there's any point in opening another bug report. When we fix the E820 problem, we'll need a way to test those changes, and Sergey's machine is a good candidate.
In summary, 2.6.34 - 2.6.36 fail unless pci=nocrs is used, and 2.6.37 works, but not because of a deliberate fix, right? Will other machines fail like this one? If we make pci=nocrs the default for 2.6.34-36, will that be a net gain or loss?
(In reply to comment #7) > In summary, 2.6.34 - 2.6.36 fail unless pci=nocrs is used, > and 2.6.37 works, but not because of a deliberate fix, right? Exactly. > Will other machines fail like this one? > If we make pci=nocrs the default for 2.6.34-36, > will that be a net gain or loss? Good question. "pci=nocrs" would break a few things (PCI hotplug and option ROM mapping for virtualized guests) on machines with multiple host bridges. And it would make us miss useful bug reports like this one. Backporting all the fixes to -stable seems a bit much. A little patch to make "pci=nocrs" the default seems more reasonable for -stable. On the other hand, we don't really have all that many bug reports from .34-36, and if we use "pci=nocrs" there, we'll effectively extend the bug-finding period even longer than it already has been. But I guess making .34-36-stable be as stable and bug-free as possible is the whole point, and making "pci=nocrs" the default would probably be a win.
Sergey, could you attach the dmesg log from 2.6.37-rc1 (or later), please? I'd like to see what resources are being used by ACPI devices. We've been assuming that the correct fix here is to pay attention to E820 reservations. However, there's some evidence that Windows uses ACPI resources but doesn't rely on E820 "reserved" areas.
Created attachment 38722 [details] dmesg for 2.6.37-rc2 Bjorn, Please find dmesg from 2.6.37-rc2 in the attachment.
I think this is fixed in 2.6.37, right? Can we close this issue?
The issue seems to be fixed. On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 8:14 PM, <bugzilla-daemon@bugzilla.kernel.org> wrote: > https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22132 > > > Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com> changed: > > What |Removed |Added > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > CC| |bhelgaas@google.com > > > > > --- Comment #11 from Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com> 2011-05-27 16:14:31 > --- > I think this is fixed in 2.6.37, right? Can we close this issue? > > -- > Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email > ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- > You reported the bug. >