Re: [PATCH 2/2] powerpc/mm: Fix memory_block_size_bytes() fornon-pseries

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Fri Jul 01 2011 - 08:15:34 EST



* Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Just compiling pseries in the kernel causes it to override
> memory_block_size_bytes() regardless of what is the runtime
> platform.
>
> This cleans up the implementation of that function, fixing
> a bug or two while at it, so that it's harmless (and potentially
> useful) for other platforms. Without this, bugs in that code
> would trigger a WARN_ON() in drivers/base/memory.c when
> booting some different platforms.
>
> If/when we have another platform supporting memory hotplug we
> might want to either move that out to a generic place or
> make it a ppc_md. callback.
>
> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/hotplug-memory.c b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/hotplug-memory.c
> index 33867ec..9d6a8ef 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/hotplug-memory.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/hotplug-memory.c
> @@ -12,6 +12,8 @@
> #include <linux/of.h>
> #include <linux/memblock.h>
> #include <linux/vmalloc.h>
> +#include <linux/memory.h>
> +
> #include <asm/firmware.h>
> #include <asm/machdep.h>
> #include <asm/pSeries_reconfig.h>
> @@ -20,24 +22,25 @@
> static unsigned long get_memblock_size(void)
> {
> struct device_node *np;
> - unsigned int memblock_size = 0;
> + unsigned int memblock_size = MIN_MEMORY_BLOCK_SIZE;
> + struct resource r;
>
> np = of_find_node_by_path("/ibm,dynamic-reconfiguration-memory");
> if (np) {
> - const unsigned long *size;
> + const __be64 *size;
>
> size = of_get_property(np, "ibm,lmb-size", NULL);
> - memblock_size = size ? *size : 0;
> -
> + if (size)
> + memblock_size = be64_to_cpup(size);
> of_node_put(np);
> - } else {
> + } else if (machine_is(pseries)) {
> + /* This fallback really only applies to pseries */
> unsigned int memzero_size = 0;
> - const unsigned int *regs;
>
> np = of_find_node_by_path("/memory@0");
> if (np) {
> - regs = of_get_property(np, "reg", NULL);
> - memzero_size = regs ? regs[3] : 0;
> + if (!of_address_to_resource(np, 0, &r))
> + memzero_size = resource_size(&r);
> of_node_put(np);
> }
>
> @@ -50,16 +53,21 @@ static unsigned long get_memblock_size(void)
> sprintf(buf, "/memory@%x", memzero_size);
> np = of_find_node_by_path(buf);
> if (np) {
> - regs = of_get_property(np, "reg", NULL);
> - memblock_size = regs ? regs[3] : 0;
> + if (!of_address_to_resource(np, 0, &r))
> + memblock_size = resource_size(&r);
> of_node_put(np);
> }
> }
> }
> -
> return memblock_size;
> }
>
> +/* WARNING: This is going to override the generic definition whenever
> + * pseries is built-in regardless of what platform is active at boot
> + * time. This is fine for now as this is the only "option" and it
> + * should work everywhere. If not, we'll have to turn this into a
> + * ppc_md. callback
> + */

Just a small nit, please use the customary (multi-line) comment
style:

/*
* Comment .....
* ...... goes here.
*/

specified in Documentation/CodingStyle.

Thanks,

Ingo
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