Re: [PATCH v3 3/9] kexec_file: Factor out kexec_locate_mem_hole from kexec_add_buffer.

From: Thiago Jung Bauermann
Date: Wed Jun 22 2016 - 19:34:22 EST


Am Mittwoch, 22 Juni 2016, 18:18:01 schrieb Dave Young:
> On 06/21/16 at 04:48pm, Thiago Jung Bauermann wrote:
> > +/**
> > + * kexec_locate_mem_hole - find free memory to load segment or use in
> > purgatory + * @image: kexec image being updated.
> > + * @size: Memory size.
> > + * @align: Minimum alignment needed.
> > + * @min_addr: Minimum starting address.
> > + * @max_addr: Maximum end address.
> > + * @top_down Find the highest free memory region?
> > + * @addr On success, will have start address of the memory region
> > found.
> > + *
> > + * Return: 0 on success, negative errno on error.
> > + */
> > +int kexec_locate_mem_hole(struct kimage *image, unsigned long size,
> > + unsigned long align, unsigned long min_addr,
> > + unsigned long max_addr, bool top_down,
> > + unsigned long *addr)
> > +{
> > + int ret;
> > + struct kexec_buf buf;
> > +
> > + memset(&buf, 0, sizeof(struct kexec_buf));
> > + buf.image = image;
> > +
> > + buf.memsz = size;
> > + buf.buf_align = align;
> > + buf.buf_min = min_addr;
> > + buf.buf_max = max_addr;
> > + buf.top_down = top_down;
>
> Since patch 2/9 moved kexec_buf from internal header file to kexec.h it
> will be natural to passing a kexec_buf pointer intead of passing all
> these arguments in kexec_locate_mem_hole.
>
> kbuf.mem can be used for addr.

Ok. What about this version?
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[]'s
Thiago Jung Bauermann
IBM Linux Technology Center


Subject: [PATCH 3/9] kexec_file: Factor out kexec_locate_mem_hole from
kexec_add_buffer.

kexec_locate_mem_hole will be used by the PowerPC kexec_file_load
implementation to find free memory for the purgatory stack.

Signed-off-by: Thiago Jung Bauermann <bauerman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Dave Young <dyoung@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: kexec@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
---
include/linux/kexec.h | 12 +++++++++---
kernel/kexec_file.c | 25 ++++++++++++++++++++-----
2 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/kexec.h b/include/linux/kexec.h
index 3d91bcfc180d..e8b099da47f5 100644
--- a/include/linux/kexec.h
+++ b/include/linux/kexec.h
@@ -147,9 +147,14 @@ struct kexec_file_ops {
#endif
};

-/*
- * Keeps track of buffer parameters as provided by caller for requesting
- * memory placement of buffer.
+/**
+ * struct kexec_buf - parameters for finding a place for a buffer in memory
+ * @image: kexec image in which memory to search.
+ * @size: Memory size for the buffer.
+ * @align: Minimum alignment needed.
+ * @min_addr: Minimum starting address.
+ * @max_addr: Maximum end address.
+ * @top_down: Find the highest free memory region?
*/
struct kexec_buf {
struct kimage *image;
@@ -163,6 +168,7 @@ struct kexec_buf {

int __weak arch_kexec_walk_mem(struct kexec_buf *kbuf,
int (*func)(u64, u64, void *));
+int kexec_locate_mem_hole(struct kexec_buf *kbuf);
#endif /* CONFIG_KEXEC_FILE */

struct kimage {
diff --git a/kernel/kexec_file.c b/kernel/kexec_file.c
index b1f1f6402518..445d66add8ca 100644
--- a/kernel/kexec_file.c
+++ b/kernel/kexec_file.c
@@ -449,6 +449,23 @@ int __weak arch_kexec_walk_mem(struct kexec_buf *kbuf,
return walk_system_ram_res(0, ULONG_MAX, kbuf, func);
}

+/**
+ * kexec_locate_mem_hole - find free memory to load segment or use in purgatory
+ * @kbuf: Parameters for the memory search.
+ *
+ * On success, kbuf->mem will have the start address of the memory region found.
+ *
+ * Return: 0 on success, negative errno on error.
+ */
+int kexec_locate_mem_hole(struct kexec_buf *kbuf)
+{
+ int ret;
+
+ ret = arch_kexec_walk_mem(kbuf, locate_mem_hole_callback);
+
+ return ret == 1 ? 0 : -EADDRNOTAVAIL;
+}
+
/*
* Helper function for placing a buffer in a kexec segment. This assumes
* that kexec_mutex is held.
@@ -493,11 +510,9 @@ int kexec_add_buffer(struct kimage *image, char *buffer, unsigned long bufsz,
kbuf->top_down = top_down;

/* Walk the RAM ranges and allocate a suitable range for the buffer */
- ret = arch_kexec_walk_mem(kbuf, locate_mem_hole_callback);
- if (ret != 1) {
- /* A suitable memory range could not be found for buffer */
- return -EADDRNOTAVAIL;
- }
+ ret = kexec_locate_mem_hole(kbuf);
+ if (ret)
+ return ret;

/* Found a suitable memory range */
ksegment = &image->segment[image->nr_segments];
--
1.9.1