On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 1:19 PM, Bernhard Walle <bwalle at suse.de> wrote:
> This patch uses the /sys/firmware/memmap interface provided in the last patch
> on the x86 architecture when E820 is used. The patch copies the E820
> memory map very early, and registers the E820 map afterwards via
> firmware_map_add_early().
>
>
> Signed-off-by: Bernhard Walle <bwalle at suse.de>
> ---
> arch/x86/kernel/e820.c | 42 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------
> include/asm-x86/e820.h | 2 ++
> 2 files changed, 38 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/e820.c b/arch/x86/kernel/e820.c
> index 1dcb665..e48eb10 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/e820.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/e820.c
> @@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
> #include <linux/mm.h>
> #include <linux/pfn.h>
> #include <linux/suspend.h>
> +#include <linux/firmware-map.h>
>
> #include <asm/pgtable.h>
> #include <asm/page.h>
> @@ -27,7 +28,22 @@
> #include <asm/setup.h>
> #include <asm/trampoline.h>
>
> +/*
> + * The e820 map is the map that gets modified e.g. with command line parameters
> + * and that is also registered with modifications in the kernel resource tree
> + * with the iomem_resource as parent.
> + *
> + * The e820_saved is directly saved after the BIOS-provided memory map is
> + * copied. It doesn't get modified afterwards. It's registered for the
> + * /sys/firmware/memmap interface.
> + *
> + * That memory map is not modified and is used as base for kexec. The kexec'd
> + * kernel should get the same memory map as the firmware provides. Then the
> + * user can e.g. boot the original kernel with mem=1G while still booting the
> + * next kernel with full memory.
> + */
> struct e820map e820;
> +struct e820map e820_saved;
>
> /* For PCI or other memory-mapped resources */
> unsigned long pci_mem_start = 0xaeedbabe;
> @@ -1180,6 +1196,16 @@ void __init finish_e820_parsing(void)
> }
> }
>
> +static inline const char *e820_type_to_string(int e820_type)
> +{
> + switch (e820_type) {
> + case E820_RAM: return "System RAM";
> + case E820_ACPI: return "ACPI Tables";
> + case E820_NVS: return "ACPI Non-volatile Storage";
> + default: return "reserved";
> + }
> +}
> +
> /*
> * Mark e820 reserved areas as busy for the resource manager.
> */
> @@ -1190,12 +1216,7 @@ void __init e820_reserve_resources(void)
>
> res = alloc_bootmem_low(sizeof(struct resource) * e820.nr_map);
> for (i = 0; i < e820.nr_map; i++) {
> - switch (e820.map[i].type) {
> - case E820_RAM: res->name = "System RAM"; break;
> - case E820_ACPI: res->name = "ACPI Tables"; break;
> - case E820_NVS: res->name = "ACPI Non-volatile Storage"; break;
> - default: res->name = "reserved";
> - }
> + res->name = e820_type_to_string(e820.map[i].type);
> res->start = e820.map[i].addr;
> res->end = res->start + e820.map[i].size - 1;
> #ifndef CONFIG_RESOURCES_64BIT
> @@ -1208,6 +1229,13 @@ void __init e820_reserve_resources(void)
> insert_resource(&iomem_resource, res);
> res++;
> }
> +
> + for (i = 0; i < e820_saved.nr_map; i++) {
> + struct e820entry *entry = &e820_saved.map[i];
> + firmware_map_add_early(entry->addr,
> + entry->addr + entry->size - 1,
> + e820_type_to_string(entry->type));
> + }
> }
>
> char *__init default_machine_specific_memory_setup(void)
> @@ -1243,6 +1271,8 @@ char *__init default_machine_specific_memory_setup(void)
> e820_add_region(HIGH_MEMORY, mem_size << 10, E820_RAM);
> }
>
> + memcpy(&e820_saved, &e820, sizeof(struct e820map));
> +
> /* In case someone cares... */
> return who;
> }
> diff --git a/include/asm-x86/e820.h b/include/asm-x86/e820.h
> index f622685..64ce6f8 100644
> --- a/include/asm-x86/e820.h
> +++ b/include/asm-x86/e820.h
> @@ -56,7 +56,9 @@ struct e820map {
> struct e820entry map[E820_X_MAX];
> };
>
> +/* see comment in arch/x86/kernel/e820.c */
> extern struct e820map e820;
> +extern struct e820map e820_saved;
>
> extern int e820_any_mapped(u64 start, u64 end, unsigned type);
> extern int e820_all_mapped(u64 start, u64 end, unsigned type);
> --
looks good...
will produce one patch update early_reserve_e820_mpc_new or
early_reserve_e820 to update e820_saved too. that contained updated
mptable for second kernel without acpi support.
YH
