Re: [PATCH v3 2/3] resource: add walk_system_ram_res_rev()

[Borislav Petkov]

On Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 08:18:47AM +0800, Baoquan He wrote:
> This function, being a variant of walk_system_ram_res() introduced in
> commit 8c86e70acead ("resource: provide new functions to walk through
> resources"), walks through a list of all the resources of System RAM
> in reversed order, i.e., from higher to lower.
> 
> It will be used in kexec_file code.

Of course, what is missing is the big *WHY* you need this to happen this
way...

>  /*
> + * This function, being a variant of walk_system_ram_res(), calls the @func
> + * callback against all memory ranges of type System RAM which are marked as
> + * IORESOURCE_SYSTEM_RAM and IORESOUCE_BUSY in reversed order, i.e., from
> + * higher to lower.
> + */
> +int walk_system_ram_res_rev(u64 start, u64 end, void *arg,
> +				int (*func)(struct resource *, void *))
> +{
> +	unsigned long flags;
> +	struct resource *res;
> +	int ret = -1;
> +
> +	flags = IORESOURCE_SYSTEM_RAM | IORESOURCE_BUSY;
> +
> +	read_lock(&resource_lock);
> +	list_for_each_entry_reverse(res, &iomem_resource.child, sibling) {

... and the other thing that I'm not clear on is why are you
slapping this function just like that instead of extending
__walk_iomem_res_desc() to do reverse direction too?

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