The patch looks good, but could the subject be more specific?
For example just like the first sentence of the patch descriotion:
Allow architectures to specify their own memory walking function
On 06/21/16 at 04:48pm, Thiago Jung Bauermann wrote:
> Allow architectures to specify different memory walking functions for
> kexec_add_buffer. Intel uses iomem to track reserved memory ranges,
> but PowerPC uses the memblock subsystem.
>
> Signed-off-by: Thiago Jung Bauermann <bauerman at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm at xmission.com>
> Cc: Dave Young <dyoung at redhat.com>
> Cc: kexec at lists.infradead.org
> Cc: linux-kernel at vger.kernel.org
> ---
> include/linux/kexec.h | 19 ++++++++++++++++++-
> kernel/kexec_file.c | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++++--------
> kernel/kexec_internal.h | 14 --------------
> 3 files changed, 40 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/kexec.h b/include/linux/kexec.h
> index e8acb2b43dd9..3d91bcfc180d 100644
> --- a/include/linux/kexec.h
> +++ b/include/linux/kexec.h
> @@ -146,7 +146,24 @@ struct kexec_file_ops {
> kexec_verify_sig_t *verify_sig;
> #endif
> };
> -#endif
> +
> +/*
> + * Keeps track of buffer parameters as provided by caller for requesting
> + * memory placement of buffer.
> + */
> +struct kexec_buf {
> + struct kimage *image;
> + unsigned long mem;
> + unsigned long memsz;
> + unsigned long buf_align;
> + unsigned long buf_min;
> + unsigned long buf_max;
> + bool top_down; /* allocate from top of memory hole */
> +};
> +
> +int __weak arch_kexec_walk_mem(struct kexec_buf *kbuf,
> + int (*func)(u64, u64, void *));
> +#endif /* CONFIG_KEXEC_FILE */
>
> struct kimage {
> kimage_entry_t head;
> diff --git a/kernel/kexec_file.c b/kernel/kexec_file.c
> index b6eec7527e9f..b1f1f6402518 100644
> --- a/kernel/kexec_file.c
> +++ b/kernel/kexec_file.c
> @@ -428,6 +428,27 @@ static int locate_mem_hole_callback(u64 start, u64 end, void *arg)
> return locate_mem_hole_bottom_up(start, end, kbuf);
> }
>
> +/**
> + * arch_kexec_walk_mem - call func(data) on free memory regions
> + * @kbuf: Context info for the search. Also passed to @func.
> + * @func: Function to call for each memory region.
> + *
> + * Return: The memory walk will stop when func returns a non-zero value
> + * and that value will be returned. If all free regions are visited without
> + * func returning non-zero, then zero will be returned.
> + */
> +int __weak arch_kexec_walk_mem(struct kexec_buf *kbuf,
> + int (*func)(u64, u64, void *))
> +{
> + if (kbuf->image->type == KEXEC_TYPE_CRASH)
> + return walk_iomem_res_desc(crashk_res.desc,
> + IORESOURCE_SYSTEM_RAM | IORESOURCE_BUSY,
> + crashk_res.start, crashk_res.end,
> + kbuf, func);
> + else
> + return walk_system_ram_res(0, ULONG_MAX, kbuf, func);
> +}
> +
> /*
> * Helper function for placing a buffer in a kexec segment. This assumes
> * that kexec_mutex is held.
> @@ -472,14 +493,7 @@ 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 */
> - if (image->type == KEXEC_TYPE_CRASH)
> - ret = walk_iomem_res_desc(crashk_res.desc,
> - IORESOURCE_SYSTEM_RAM | IORESOURCE_BUSY,
> - crashk_res.start, crashk_res.end, kbuf,
> - locate_mem_hole_callback);
> - else
> - ret = walk_system_ram_res(0, -1, kbuf,
> - locate_mem_hole_callback);
> + 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;
> diff --git a/kernel/kexec_internal.h b/kernel/kexec_internal.h
> index eefd5bf960c2..4cef7e4706b0 100644
> --- a/kernel/kexec_internal.h
> +++ b/kernel/kexec_internal.h
> @@ -20,20 +20,6 @@ struct kexec_sha_region {
> unsigned long len;
> };
>
> -/*
> - * Keeps track of buffer parameters as provided by caller for requesting
> - * memory placement of buffer.
> - */
> -struct kexec_buf {
> - struct kimage *image;
> - unsigned long mem;
> - unsigned long memsz;
> - unsigned long buf_align;
> - unsigned long buf_min;
> - unsigned long buf_max;
> - bool top_down; /* allocate from top of memory hole */
> -};
> -
> void kimage_file_post_load_cleanup(struct kimage *image);
> #else /* CONFIG_KEXEC_FILE */
> static inline void kimage_file_post_load_cleanup(struct kimage *image) { }
Thanks
Dave
