Re: [PATCH] catch valid mem range at onlining memory

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Fri Apr 28 2006 - 19:33:33 EST


KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> This patch allows hot-add memory which is not aligned to section.
> Based on linux-2.6.17-rc2-mm1 + memory hotadd ioresource register patch.
>
> iomem resource patch is here.
> http://www.uwsg.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0604.3/1188.html
>
> Now, hot-added memory has to be aligned to section size.
> Considering big section sized archs, this is not useful.
>
> When hot-added memory is registerd as iomem resoruce by iomem resource patch,
> we can make use of that information to detect valid memory range.
>
> Note: With this, not-aligned memory can be registerd. To allow hot-add
> memory with holes, we have to do more work around add_memory().
> (It doesn't allows add memory to already existing mem section.)
>
>

Looks sane, thanks.

> +#ifdef CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG
> +/*
> + * Finds the lowest memory reosurce exists within [res->start.res->end)
> + * the caller must specify res->start, res->end, res->flags.
> + * If found, returns 0, res is overwritten, if not found, returns -1.
> + */
> +int find_next_system_ram(struct resource *res)
> +{
> + u64 start, end;
> + struct resource *p;
> +
> + BUG_ON(!res);
> +
> + start = res->start;
> + end = res->end;
> +
> + read_lock(&resource_lock);
> + for( p = iomem_resource.child; p ; p = p->sibling) {
> + /* system ram is just marked as IORESOURCE_MEM */
> + if (p->flags != res->flags)
> + continue;
> + if (p->start > end) {
> + p = NULL;
> + break;
> + }
> + if (p->start >= start)
> + break;
> + }
> + read_unlock(&resource_lock);
> + if (!p)
> + return -1;
> + /* copy data */
> + res->start = p->start;
> + res->end = p->end;
> + return 0;
> +}
> +
> +#endif

This all looks fairly (but trivially) dependent upon the 64-bit-resource
patches in Greg's tree. Greg, were you planning on merging them in the
post-2.6.17 flood?

> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6.17-rc2-mm1.orig/include/linux/ioport.h 2006-04-27 18:00:16.000000000 +0900
> +++ linux-2.6.17-rc2-mm1/include/linux/ioport.h 2006-04-27 21:47:25.000000000 +0900
> @@ -105,6 +105,10 @@
> void *alignf_data);
> int adjust_resource(struct resource *res, u64 start,
> u64 size);
> +#ifdef CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG
> +/* get registered SYSTEM_RAM resources in specified area */
> +extern int find_next_system_ram(struct resource *res);
> +#endif

I'll remove the ifdefs - the only thing they give us if someone makes a
mistake is an additional compile-time warning, and I don't think that's
beneficial enough to warrant the addition of an ifdef.


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