Apparently stuff works that way on those machines.
I agree with Chris' concern that this is a bit risky but imo worth a
shot in -next just for fun. Afaics all these machines have the pci
resources allocated like that by the BIOS, so I suspect that it's all
ok.
This regression goes back to
commit
eaba1b8f3379b5d100bd146b9a41d28348bdfd09
Author: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Date: Thu Jul 4 12:28:35 2013 +0100
drm/i915: Verify that our stolen memory doesn't conflict
Bugzilla: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=76983
Bugzilla: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=71031
Tested-by: lu hua <huax.lu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Reviewed-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
Tested-by: Paul Menzel <paulepanter@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>
r = devm_request_mem_region(dev->dev, base + 1,
dev_priv->gtt.stolen_size - 1,
"Graphics Stolen Memory");
- if (r == NULL) {
+ /*
+ * GEN3 firmware likes to smash pci bridges into the stolen
+ * range. Apparently this works.
+ */
+ if (r == NULL && !IS_GEN3(dev)) {
DRM_ERROR("conflict detected with stolen region: [0x%08x - 0x%08x]\n",
base, base + (uint32_t)dev_priv->gtt.stolen_size);
base = 0;