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    x86: avoid E820 regions when allocating address space · 4dc2287c
    Bjorn Helgaas authored
    When we allocate address space, e.g., to assign it to a PCI device, don't
    allocate anything mentioned in the BIOS E820 memory map.
    
    On recent machines (2008 and newer), we assign PCI resources from the
    windows described by the ACPI PCI host bridge _CRS.  On many Dell
    machines, these windows overlap some E820 reserved areas, e.g.,
    
        BIOS-e820: 00000000bfe4dc00 - 00000000c0000000 (reserved)
        pci_root PNP0A03:00: host bridge window [mem 0xbff00000-0xdfffffff]
    
    If we put devices at 0xbff00000, they don't work, probably because
    that's really RAM, not I/O memory.  This patch prevents that by removing
    the 0xbfe4dc00-0xbfffffff area from the "available" resource.
    
    I'm not very happy with this solution because Windows solves the problem
    differently (it seems to ignore E820 reserved areas and it allocates
    top-down instead of bottom-up; details at comment 45 of the bugzilla
    below).  That means we're vulnerable to BIOS defects that Windows would not
    trip over.  For example, if BIOS described a device in ACPI but didn't
    mention it in E820, Windows would work fine but Linux would fail.
    
    Reference: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16228Acked-by: default avatarH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarBjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
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