From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752403Ab0LQDA1 (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Dec 2010 22:00:27 -0500 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:44087 "EHLO mail.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751867Ab0LQDAZ (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Dec 2010 22:00:25 -0500 Message-ID: <4D0AD232.8020107@zytor.com> Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2010 19:00:02 -0800 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101209 Fedora/3.1.7-0.35.b3pre.fc14 Thunderbird/3.1.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Linus Torvalds CC: Bjorn Helgaas , Jesse Barnes , Len Brown , linux-pci@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, Thomas Gleixner , Ingo Molnar , Adam Belay Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/9] PCI: revert to allocating bottom-up, avoid E820 areas References: <20101216173614.8185.19462.stgit@bob.kio> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 12/16/2010 01:59 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 9:38 AM, Bjorn Helgaas wrote: >> >> So I think the best band-aid for now is to revert to bottom-up allocation >> and do a better job of avoiding E820 reserved areas. Obviously, it's not >> complete because we could still trip over ACPI devices (as in 23802), but >> that's a problem we've always had and it's not as likely if we go bottom-up. > > Ok, ack for this series. Have we got testers for it? In particular, > have the people who have seen regressions been notified of this new > series? > Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin ... for the series as well. For what it's worth. -hpa