[PATCH v8 01/13] resource: add walk_system_ram_res_rev()

Baoquan He bhe at redhat.com
Mon Mar 19 18:43:18 PDT 2018


On 02/23/18 at 04:36pm, Dave Young wrote:
> Hi AKASHI,
> 
> On 02/22/18 at 08:17pm, AKASHI Takahiro wrote:
> > This function, being a variant of walk_system_ram_res() introduced in
> > commit 8c86e70acead ("resource: provide new functions to walk through
> > resources"), walks through a list of all the resources of System RAM
> > in reversed order, i.e., from higher to lower.
> > 
> > It will be used in kexec_file implementation on arm64.
> 
> I remember there was an old discussion about this, it should be added
> in patch log why this is needed.

It's used to load kernel/initrd at the top of system RAM, and this is
consistent with user space kexec behaviour.

In x86 64, Vivek didn't do like this since there's no reverse iomem
resource iterating function, he just chose a match RAM region bottom up,
then put kernel/initrd top down in the found RAM region. This is
different than kexec_tools utility. I am considering to change resource
sibling as double list, seems AKASHI's way is easier to be accepted by
people. So I will use this one to change x86 64 code.

Hi AKASHI,

About arm64 kexec_file patches, will you post recently? Or any other
plan?

Thanks
Baoquan

> 
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: AKASHI Takahiro <takahiro.akashi at linaro.org>
> > Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal at redhat.com>
> > Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm at linux-foundation.org>
> > Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds at linux-foundation.org>
> > ---
> >  include/linux/ioport.h |  3 +++
> >  kernel/resource.c      | 57 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >  2 files changed, 60 insertions(+)
> > 
> > diff --git a/include/linux/ioport.h b/include/linux/ioport.h
> > index da0ebaec25f0..f12d95fe038b 100644
> > --- a/include/linux/ioport.h
> > +++ b/include/linux/ioport.h
> > @@ -277,6 +277,9 @@ extern int
> >  walk_system_ram_res(u64 start, u64 end, void *arg,
> >  		    int (*func)(struct resource *, void *));
> >  extern int
> > +walk_system_ram_res_rev(u64 start, u64 end, void *arg,
> > +			int (*func)(struct resource *, void *));
> > +extern int
> >  walk_iomem_res_desc(unsigned long desc, unsigned long flags, u64 start, u64 end,
> >  		    void *arg, int (*func)(struct resource *, void *));
> >  
> > diff --git a/kernel/resource.c b/kernel/resource.c
> > index e270b5048988..bdaa93407f4c 100644
> > --- a/kernel/resource.c
> > +++ b/kernel/resource.c
> > @@ -23,6 +23,8 @@
> >  #include <linux/pfn.h>
> >  #include <linux/mm.h>
> >  #include <linux/resource_ext.h>
> > +#include <linux/string.h>
> > +#include <linux/vmalloc.h>
> >  #include <asm/io.h>
> >  
> >  
> > @@ -486,6 +488,61 @@ int walk_mem_res(u64 start, u64 end, void *arg,
> >  				     arg, func);
> >  }
> >  
> > +int walk_system_ram_res_rev(u64 start, u64 end, void *arg,
> > +				int (*func)(struct resource *, void *))
> > +{
> > +	struct resource res, *rams;
> > +	int rams_size = 16, i;
> > +	int ret = -1;
> > +
> > +	/* create a list */
> > +	rams = vmalloc(sizeof(struct resource) * rams_size);
> > +	if (!rams)
> > +		return ret;
> > +
> > +	res.start = start;
> > +	res.end = end;
> > +	res.flags = IORESOURCE_SYSTEM_RAM | IORESOURCE_BUSY;
> > +	i = 0;
> > +	while ((res.start < res.end) &&
> > +		(!find_next_iomem_res(&res, IORES_DESC_NONE, true))) {
> > +		if (i >= rams_size) {
> > +			/* re-alloc */
> > +			struct resource *rams_new;
> > +			int rams_new_size;
> > +
> > +			rams_new_size = rams_size + 16;
> > +			rams_new = vmalloc(sizeof(struct resource)
> > +							* rams_new_size);
> > +			if (!rams_new)
> > +				goto out;
> > +
> > +			memcpy(rams_new, rams,
> > +					sizeof(struct resource) * rams_size);
> > +			vfree(rams);
> > +			rams = rams_new;
> > +			rams_size = rams_new_size;
> > +		}
> > +
> > +		rams[i].start = res.start;
> > +		rams[i++].end = res.end;
> > +
> > +		res.start = res.end + 1;
> > +		res.end = end;
> > +	}
> > +
> > +	/* go reverse */
> > +	for (i--; i >= 0; i--) {
> > +		ret = (*func)(&rams[i], arg);
> > +		if (ret)
> > +			break;
> > +	}
> > +
> > +out:
> > +	vfree(rams);
> > +	return ret;
> > +}
> > +
> >  #if !defined(CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_WALK_MEMORY)
> >  
> >  /*
> > -- 
> > 2.16.2
> > 
> 
> Thanks
> Dave
> 
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