[PATCH] extend physmap.c to support run-time adding partitions

Jun Sun jsun at mvista.com
Wed Oct 22 21:25:58 EDT 2003


While looking at drvers/mtd/maps directories, it becomes
obvious to me that many files are derived from physmap.c,
in order to add partition support or add their own
set_vpp() pointer, etc..

Such a need can be easily satisfied by extending physmap.c
a little.

In this patch, I like to introduce phsmap_add_partition()
function, which allows boards to add flash partitions
at run-time.  (Note that you can still override this
hardcoded partition by using kernel command line)

In the patch I also showed how a board can make use of this
extension.  Hopefully we can get rid of lots of files under 
the maps directory. :)

Boards which need to set set_vpp pointer can do so easily
too.

Any comments?

Jun
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diff -Nru linux/arch/mips/mips-boards/malta/malta_setup.c.orig linux/arch/mips/mips-boards/malta/malta_setup.c
--- linux/arch/mips/mips-boards/malta/malta_setup.c.orig	Fri Aug  1 10:50:18 2003
+++ linux/arch/mips/mips-boards/malta/malta_setup.c	Wed Oct 22 17:26:24 2003
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@
 #ifdef CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE
 #include <linux/ide.h>
 #endif
+#include <linux/mtd/physmap.h>
 
 #include <asm/cpu.h>
 #include <asm/bootinfo.h>
@@ -166,6 +167,12 @@
         conswitchp = &dummy_con;
 #endif
 #endif
+
+#if defined(CONFIG_MTD_PHYSMAP) && defined(CONFIG_MTD_PARTITIONS)
+	physmap_add_partition("YAMON", 0x100000, 0x0, MTD_WRITEABLE);
+	physmap_add_partition("User FS", 0x300000, 0x100000, 0);
+#endif
+
 	mips_reboot_setup();
 
 	board_time_init = mips_time_init;
diff -Nru linux/drivers/mtd/maps/physmap.c.orig linux/drivers/mtd/maps/physmap.c
--- linux/drivers/mtd/maps/physmap.c.orig	Wed Jul 23 15:17:52 2003
+++ linux/drivers/mtd/maps/physmap.c	Wed Oct 22 17:42:50 2003
@@ -2,6 +2,11 @@
  * $Id: physmap.c,v 1.28 2003/05/28 15:53:43 dwmw2 Exp $
  *
  * Normal mappings of chips in physical memory
+ *
+ * Copyright (C) 2003 MontaVista Software Inc.
+ * Author: Jun Sun, jsun at mvista.com or jsun at junsun.net
+ *
+ * 031022 - [jsun] add physmap_add_partition()
  */
 
 #include <linux/module.h>
@@ -23,7 +28,7 @@
 
 
 struct map_info physmap_map = {
-	.name = "Physically mapped flash",
+	.name = "phys_mapped_flash",
 	.size = WINDOW_SIZE,
 	.buswidth = BUSWIDTH,
 	.phys = WINDOW_ADDR,
@@ -33,35 +38,31 @@
 static struct mtd_partition *mtd_parts;
 static int                   mtd_parts_nb;
 
-static struct mtd_partition physmap_partitions[] = {
-#if 0
-/* Put your own partition definitions here */
-	{
-		.name =		"bootROM",
-		.size =		0x80000,
-		.offset =	0,
-		.mask_flags =	MTD_WRITEABLE,  /* force read-only */
-	}, {
-		.name =		"zImage",
-		.size =		0x100000,
-		.offset =	MTDPART_OFS_APPEND,
-		.mask_flags =	MTD_WRITEABLE,  /* force read-only */
-	}, {
-		.name =		"ramdisk.gz",
-		.size =		0x300000,
-		.offset =	MTDPART_OFS_APPEND,
-		.mask_flags =	MTD_WRITEABLE,  /* force read-only */
-	}, {
-		.name =		"User FS",
-		.size =		MTDPART_SIZ_FULL,
-		.offset =	MTDPART_OFS_APPEND,
+#define NUM_PARTITIONS	4	/* random num which should be good enough */
+static struct mtd_partition physmap_partitions[NUM_PARTITIONS] __initdata = {};
+
+char *part_probes[] __initdata = {"cmdlinepart", "RedBoot", NULL};
+
+/*
+ * See include/linux/mtd/physmap.h file.
+ */
+static int part_index __initdata = 0;
+int __init physmap_add_partition(char *name, u32 size, u32 offset, u32 flags)
+{
+	if (part_index >= NUM_PARTITIONS) {
+		printk(KERN_ERR "physmap_add_partition() exceeds max partition table size (%d)\n", NUM_PARTITIONS);
+		return -1;
 	}
-#endif
-};
 
-#define NUM_PARTITIONS	(sizeof(physmap_partitions)/sizeof(struct mtd_partition))
-const char *part_probes[] = {"cmdlinepart", "RedBoot", NULL};
+	physmap_partitions[part_index].name = name;
+	physmap_partitions[part_index].size = size;
+	physmap_partitions[part_index].offset = offset;
+	physmap_partitions[part_index].mask_flags = flags;
+
+	part_index++;
 
+	return 0;
+}
 #endif /* CONFIG_MTD_PARTITIONS */
 
 int __init init_physmap(void)
@@ -97,11 +98,11 @@
 			return 0;
 		}
 
-		if (NUM_PARTITIONS != 0) 
+		if (part_index != 0) 
 		{
 			printk(KERN_NOTICE 
 			       "Using physmap partition definition\n");
-			add_mtd_partitions (mymtd, physmap_partitions, NUM_PARTITIONS);
+			add_mtd_partitions (mymtd, physmap_partitions, part_index);
 			return 0;
 		}
 
diff -Nru linux/include/linux/mtd/physmap.h.orig linux/include/linux/mtd/physmap.h
--- linux/include/linux/mtd/physmap.h.orig	Wed Oct 22 17:05:22 2003
+++ linux/include/linux/mtd/physmap.h	Wed Oct 22 18:20:34 2003
@@ -0,0 +1,48 @@
+/*
+ * For boards with physically mapped flash and using 
+ * drivers/mtd/maps/physmap.c mapping driver.
+ *
+ * Copyright (C) 2003 MontaVista Software Inc.
+ * Author: Jun Sun, jsun at mvista.com or jsun at junsun.net
+ *
+ * This program is free software; you can redistribute  it and/or modify it
+ * under  the terms of  the GNU General  Public License as published by the
+ * Free Software Foundation;  either version 2 of the  License, or (at your
+ * option) any later version.
+ *
+ */
+
+#ifndef __LINUX_MTD_PHYSMAP__
+
+#include <linux/config.h>
+
+#if defined(CONFIG_MTD_PHYSMAP) 
+
+#include <linux/mtd/mtd.h>
+#include <linux/mtd/map.h>
+
+/*
+ * The map_info for physmap.  Board can override size, buswidth, phys,
+ * (*set_vpp)(), etc in their initial setup routine.
+ */
+extern struct map_info physmap_map;
+
+#if defined(CONFIG_MTD_PARTITIONS)
+
+/*
+ * Machines that wish to do flash partition may want to call this function in 
+ * their setup routine.  Examples:
+ *
+ *	physmap_add_partition("bootROM", 0x100000, 0, MTD_WRITEABLE);
+ *	physmap_add_partition("User FS", 0x300000, 0x100000, 0)
+ *
+ * Note that one can always override this hard-coded partition with 
+ * command line partition (you need to enable CONFIG_MTD_CMDLINE_PARTS).
+ */
+int physmap_add_partition(char *name, u32 size, u32 offset, u32 mask_flags);
+
+#endif /* defined(CONFIG_MTD_PARTITIONS) */
+#endif /* defined(CONFIG_MTD) */
+
+#endif /* __LINUX_MTD_PHYSMAP__ */
+


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