Re: [PATCH V4 1/4] efi: x86: rearrange efi_mem_attributes()

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On 6/15/2015 10:09 AM, Matt Fleming wrote:
On Fri, 12 Jun, at 06:01:44PM, Jonathan (Zhixiong) Zhang wrote:
From: "Jonathan (Zhixiong) Zhang" <zjzhang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

x86 and ia64 implement efi_mem_attributes() differently. This
function needs to be available for other arch (such as arm64)
as well, such as for the purpose of ACPI/APEI.

ia64 efi does not setup memmap variable and does not set
EFI_MEMMAP flag, so it needs to have its unique implementation
of efi_mem_attributes().

Something like the above paragraph...

@@ -517,3 +517,21 @@ char * __init efi_md_typeattr_format(char *buf, size_t size,
  			 attr & EFI_MEMORY_UC      ? "UC"  : "");
  	return buf;
  }

needs to go here, i.e. as documentation for efi_mem_atributes(). You
need to explain why this function is marked as __weak at the function
definition site.

+u64 __weak efi_mem_attributes(unsigned long phys_addr)
+{
+	efi_memory_desc_t *md;
+	void *p;
+
+	if (!efi_enabled(EFI_MEMMAP))
+		return 0;
+
+	for (p = memmap.map; p < memmap.map_end; p += memmap.desc_size) {
+		md = p;
+		if ((md->phys_addr <= phys_addr) &&
+		    (phys_addr < (md->phys_addr +
+		    (md->num_pages << EFI_PAGE_SHIFT))))
+			return md->attribute;
+	}
+	return 0;
+}

because otherwise people are going to read this in the future and think,

  "efi_mem_attribute() doesn't quite work how I want it to for my arch,
  but it's __weak, so I'll override it"

which is absolutely not the practice we should be promoting.

How about something like this,

	/*
	 * efi_mem_attributes - lookup memmap attributes for physical address
	 * @phys_addr: the physical address to lookup
	 *
	 * Search in the EFI memory map for the region covering
	 * @phys_addr. Returns the EFI memory attributes if the region
	 * was found in the memory map, 0 otherwise.
	 *
	 * Despite being marked __weak most architectures should *not*
	 * override this function. It is __weak solely for the benefit
	 * of ia64 which has a funky EFI memory map that doesn't work
	 * the same way as other architectures.
	 */

Thank you Matt for the suggestion. Will do so accordingly.

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Jonathan (Zhixiong) Zhang
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