Re: Add Dell Studio 1557 to pci=nocrs blacklist

[Bjorn Helgaas]

On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 11:37 AM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> * Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> The Dell Studio 1557 also doesn't suspend correctly when CRS is enabled.
>> Details at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=769657
>>
>> Reported-by: Gregory S. Hoerner <ghoerner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> --- linux-3.1.noarch/arch/x86/pci/acpi.c~     2012-01-04 11:19:36.783664477 -0500
>> +++ linux-3.1.noarch/arch/x86/pci/acpi.c      2012-01-04 11:23:42.403666272 -0500
>> @@ -75,6 +75,16 @@ static const struct dmi_system_id pci_us
>>       /* https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=769657 */
>>       {
>>               .callback = set_nouse_crs,
>> +             .ident = "Dell Studio 1557",
>> +             .matches = {
>> +                     DMI_MATCH(DMI_BOARD_VENDOR, "Dell Inc."),
>> +                     DMI_MATCH(DMI_PRODUCT_NAME, "Studio 1557");
>> +                     DMI_MATCH(DMI_BIOS_VERSION, "A09"),
>
> Btw., should we perhaps match on all things 'Studio*'? For these
> two systems i'm sure there's 20 other models we have not covered
> yet ...

+linux-pci

I think we should hold off on merging this patch upstream.  We don't
understand the root cause yet, and I haven't seen any evidence that
setting "pci=nocrs" actually makes a difference in PCI resource
allocation (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=769657#c27)

Bjorn
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