[PATCH V3 1/3] mm: add utility for early copy from unmapped ram

Mark Salter msalter at redhat.com
Sun Aug 16 13:49:26 PDT 2015


In some early boot circumstances, it may be necessary to copy
from RAM outside the kernel linear mapping to mapped RAM. The
need to relocate an initrd is one example in the x86 code. This
patch creates a helper function based on current x86 code.

Signed-off-by: Mark Salter <msalter at redhat.com>
---
 include/asm-generic/early_ioremap.h |  6 ++++++
 mm/early_ioremap.c                  | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 28 insertions(+)

diff --git a/include/asm-generic/early_ioremap.h b/include/asm-generic/early_ioremap.h
index a5de55c..e539f27 100644
--- a/include/asm-generic/early_ioremap.h
+++ b/include/asm-generic/early_ioremap.h
@@ -33,6 +33,12 @@ extern void early_ioremap_setup(void);
  */
 extern void early_ioremap_reset(void);
 
+/*
+ * Early copy from unmapped memory to kernel mapped memory.
+ */
+extern void copy_from_early_mem(void *dest, phys_addr_t src,
+				unsigned long size);
+
 #else
 static inline void early_ioremap_init(void) { }
 static inline void early_ioremap_setup(void) { }
diff --git a/mm/early_ioremap.c b/mm/early_ioremap.c
index e10ccd2..a0baeb4 100644
--- a/mm/early_ioremap.c
+++ b/mm/early_ioremap.c
@@ -217,6 +217,28 @@ early_memremap(resource_size_t phys_addr, unsigned long size)
 	return (__force void *)__early_ioremap(phys_addr, size,
 					       FIXMAP_PAGE_NORMAL);
 }
+
+#define MAX_MAP_CHUNK	(NR_FIX_BTMAPS << PAGE_SHIFT)
+
+void __init copy_from_early_mem(void *dest, phys_addr_t src, unsigned long size)
+{
+	unsigned long slop, clen;
+	char *p;
+
+	while (size) {
+		slop = src & ~PAGE_MASK;
+		clen = size;
+		if (clen > MAX_MAP_CHUNK - slop)
+			clen = MAX_MAP_CHUNK - slop;
+		p = early_memremap(src & PAGE_MASK, clen + slop);
+		memcpy(dest, p + slop, clen);
+		early_memunmap(p, clen + slop);
+		dest += clen;
+		src += clen;
+		size -= clen;
+	}
+}
+
 #else /* CONFIG_MMU */
 
 void __init __iomem *
-- 
2.4.3




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