Re: [PATCH 05/22] lmb: Add lmb_reserve_area/lmb_free_area

From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Date: Mon May 10 2010 - 03:12:36 EST


On Sat, 2010-05-08 at 08:17 -0700, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> They will check if the region array is big enough.
>
> __check_and_double_region_array will try to double the region array if that
> array spare slots is not big enough. Old array will be copied to new array.
>
> Arch code should set lmb.default_alloc_limit accordingly, so the new array is in
> accessiable address.

More issues...

> +static void __init __check_and_double_region_array(struct lmb_region *type,
> + struct lmb_property *static_region)
> +{
> + u64 size, mem;
> + struct lmb_property *new, *old;
> + unsigned long rgnsz = type->nr_regions;
> +
> + /* Do we have enough slots left ? */
> + if ((rgnsz - type->cnt) > 2)
> + return;
> +
> + old = type->region;
> + /* Double the array size */
> + size = sizeof(struct lmb_property) * rgnsz * 2;
> +
> + mem = __lmb_alloc_base(size, sizeof(struct lmb_property), lmb.default_alloc_limit);
> + if (mem == 0)
> + panic("can not find more space for lmb.reserved.region array");

Now, that is not right because we do memory hotplug. Thus lmb_add() must
be able to deal with things running past LMB init.

slab_is_available() will do the job for now, unless somebody has bootmem
and tries to lmb_add() memory while bootmem is active, but screw that
for now. See the code I'll post tonight.

> + new = __va(mem);
> + /* Copy old to new */
> + memcpy(&new[0], &old[0], sizeof(struct lmb_property) * rgnsz);
> + memset(&new[rgnsz], 0, sizeof(struct lmb_property) * rgnsz);
> +
> + memset(&old[0], 0, sizeof(struct lmb_property) * rgnsz);
> + type->region = new;
> + type->nr_regions = rgnsz * 2;
> + printk(KERN_DEBUG "lmb.reserved.region array is doubled to %ld at [%llx - %llx]\n",
> + type->nr_regions, mem, mem + size - 1);
> +
> + /* Free old one ?*/
> + if (old != static_region)
> + lmb_free(__pa(old), sizeof(struct lmb_property) * rgnsz);
> +}

Similar comment, don't bother if slab is available.

> +void __init lmb_add_memory(u64 start, u64 end)
> +{
> + lmb_add_region(&lmb.memory, start, end - start);
> + __check_and_double_region_array(&lmb.memory, &lmb_memory_region[0]);
> +}

So you duplicate lmb_add() gratuituously ?

> +void __init lmb_reserve_area(u64 start, u64 end, char *name)
> +{
> + if (start == end)
> + return;
> +
> + if (WARN_ONCE(start > end, "lmb_reserve_area: wrong range [%#llx, %#llx]\n", start, end))
> + return;
> +
> + lmb_add_region(&lmb.reserved, start, end - start);
> + __check_and_double_region_array(&lmb.reserved, &lmb_reserved_region[0]);
> +}

And lmb_reserve() ?

Do we want to end up with 5 copies of the same API with subtle
differences just for fun ?

Cheers,
Ben.


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