Re: Extending /memreserve/ to allow defining descriptions

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On Tue, Mar 7, 2017 at 1:12 AM, Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 03/06/2017 03:28 PM, Stewart Smith wrote:
>> David Gibson <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>>> What you could do is to add properties within the device tree further
>>> annotating the reservations, with the extra structure essentially just
>>> acting as an easy-to-parse summary of that.  In fact I know that POWER
>>> systems firmware use 'reserved-ranges' and 'reserved-names' properties
>>> for this.  I don't know if anyone else has adopted that though.
>>
>> We've also been toying with the idea of creating a binding for "named
>> reserved memory range that should probably show up in debugfs"
>>
>> I'd also be happy with a standard binding to do it.
>
> Seems like
> Documentation/devicetree/bindings/reserved-memory/reserved-memory.txt
> may be a good place to add descriptive properties about what these
> reserved regions are? The code parsing this also seems to be easily
> extensible with adding custom "name" properties.
>
> Using "reserved-names" sounds like a good thing, I will be looking into
> submitting a binding update in the next few days, but if you beat me to
> it, happy to review it.
>
> Tangential: is it me, or it's possible for /memreserve/'s address and
> size cells to disagree with #address-cells and #size-cells defined by
> the top-level node?

/memreserve/ is a shortcut to tell the kernel during very early boot
to keep its paws of certain ranges of memory. Don't try to extend it
into anything more. The reserved-memory.txt binding is the place to
put tags and/or names on memory regions.

g.
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