Hello, On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 02:30:51AM +0800, Zhang Yanfei wrote: > +/** > + * memory_map_bottom_up - Map [map_start, map_end) bottom up > + * @map_start: start address of the target memory range > + * @map_end: end address of the target memory range > + * > + * This function will setup direct mapping for memory range > + * [map_start, map_end) in bottom-up. Ditto about the comment. > + */ > +static void __init memory_map_bottom_up(unsigned long map_start, > + unsigned long map_end) > +{ > + unsigned long next, new_mapped_ram_size, start; > + unsigned long mapped_ram_size = 0; > + /* step_size need to be small so pgt_buf from BRK could cover it */ > + unsigned long step_size = PMD_SIZE; > + > + start = map_start; > + min_pfn_mapped = start >> PAGE_SHIFT; > + > + /* > + * We start from the bottom (@map_start) and go to the top (@map_end). > + * The memblock_find_in_range() gets us a block of RAM from the > + * end of RAM in [min_pfn_mapped, max_pfn_mapped) used as new pages > + * for page table. > + */ > + while (start < map_end) { > + if (map_end - start > step_size) { > + next = round_up(start + 1, step_size); > + if (next > map_end) > + next = map_end; > + } else > + next = map_end; > + > + new_mapped_ram_size = init_range_memory_mapping(start, next); > + start = next; > + > + if (new_mapped_ram_size > mapped_ram_size) > + step_size <<= STEP_SIZE_SHIFT; > + mapped_ram_size += new_mapped_ram_size; > + } > +} As Yinghai pointed out in another thread, do we need to worry about falling back to top-down? Thanks. -- tejun -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html