On Fri, 30 Oct 2015 10:03:22 +0800 Dave Young <dyoung at redhat.com> wrote: > Hi, > [snip] > > --- a/kexec/arch/s390/kexec-image.c > > +++ b/kexec/arch/s390/kexec-image.c > > @@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ image_s390_load(int argc, char **argv, c > > * we load the ramdisk directly behind the image with 1 MiB alignment. > > */ > > if (ramdisk) { > > - rd_buffer = slurp_file(ramdisk, &ramdisk_len); > > + rd_buffer = slurp_file_mmap(ramdisk, &ramdisk_len); > > if (rd_buffer == NULL) { > > fprintf(stderr, "Could not read ramdisk.\n"); > > return -1; > > --- a/kexec/kexec.c > > +++ b/kexec/kexec.c > > @@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ > > #include <sys/types.h> > > #include <sys/stat.h> > > #include <sys/reboot.h> > > +#include <sys/mman.h> > > #include <unistd.h> > > #include <fcntl.h> > > #ifndef _O_BINARY > > @@ -514,7 +515,8 @@ static char *slurp_fd(int fd, const char > > return buf; > > } > > > > -char *slurp_file(const char *filename, off_t *r_size) > > +static char *slurp_file_generic(const char *filename, off_t *r_size, > > + int use_mmap) > > Add a function comment about the argument use_mmap so that one knows > that it will be not used for character devices?# Good idea, I put comments before slurp_file() and slurp_file_mmap(). > > > { > > int fd; > > char *buf; > > @@ -552,11 +554,17 @@ char *slurp_file(const char *filename, o > > if (err < 0) > > die("Can not seek to the begin of file %s: %s\n", > > filename, strerror(errno)); > > + buf = slurp_fd(fd, filename, size, &nread); > > } else { > > size = stats.st_size; > > + if (use_mmap) { > > + buf = mmap(NULL, size, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, > > + MAP_PRIVATE, fd, 0); > > Probably map it as readonly is enough. Although I agree with you for the ramdisk case, I nevertheless would prefer to keep it writable to have the same semantics as for the malloc case. So do you agree with the patch below? Michael --- kexec/arch/s390/kexec-image.c | 2 +- kexec/kexec.c | 31 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--- kexec/kexec.h | 1 + 3 files changed, 30 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) --- a/kexec/arch/s390/kexec-image.c +++ b/kexec/arch/s390/kexec-image.c @@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ image_s390_load(int argc, char **argv, c * we load the ramdisk directly behind the image with 1 MiB alignment. */ if (ramdisk) { - rd_buffer = slurp_file(ramdisk, &ramdisk_len); + rd_buffer = slurp_file_mmap(ramdisk, &ramdisk_len); if (rd_buffer == NULL) { fprintf(stderr, "Could not read ramdisk.\n"); return -1; --- a/kexec/kexec.c +++ b/kexec/kexec.c @@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ #include <sys/types.h> #include <sys/stat.h> #include <sys/reboot.h> +#include <sys/mman.h> #include <unistd.h> #include <fcntl.h> #ifndef _O_BINARY @@ -514,7 +515,8 @@ static char *slurp_fd(int fd, const char return buf; } -char *slurp_file(const char *filename, off_t *r_size) +static char *slurp_file_generic(const char *filename, off_t *r_size, + int use_mmap) { int fd; char *buf; @@ -552,11 +554,17 @@ char *slurp_file(const char *filename, o if (err < 0) die("Can not seek to the begin of file %s: %s\n", filename, strerror(errno)); + buf = slurp_fd(fd, filename, size, &nread); } else { size = stats.st_size; + if (use_mmap) { + buf = mmap(NULL, size, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, + MAP_PRIVATE, fd, 0); + nread = size; + } else { + buf = slurp_fd(fd, filename, size, &nread); + } } - - buf = slurp_fd(fd, filename, size, &nread); if (!buf) die("Cannot read %s", filename); @@ -567,6 +575,23 @@ char *slurp_file(const char *filename, o return buf; } +/* + * Read file into malloced buffer + */ +char *slurp_file(const char *filename, off_t *r_size) +{ + return slurp_file_generic(filename, r_size, 0); +} + +/* + * Map "normal" file or read "character device" into malloced buffer. + * You must not use free, realloc, etc. with the returned buffer. + */ +char *slurp_file_mmap(const char *filename, off_t *r_size) +{ + return slurp_file_generic(filename, r_size, 1); +} + /* This functions reads either specified number of bytes from the file or lesser if EOF is met. */ --- a/kexec/kexec.h +++ b/kexec/kexec.h @@ -253,6 +253,7 @@ extern void die(const char *fmt, ...) extern void *xmalloc(size_t size); extern void *xrealloc(void *ptr, size_t size); extern char *slurp_file(const char *filename, off_t *r_size); +extern char *slurp_file_mmap(const char *filename, off_t *r_size); extern char *slurp_file_len(const char *filename, off_t size, off_t *nread); extern char *slurp_decompress_file(const char *filename, off_t *r_size); extern unsigned long virt_to_phys(unsigned long addr);