Tejun Heo wrote:
Hello,
On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 05:46:18PM +0100, Michal Simek wrote:
First of all I don't like to use your term "extend range coverages".
We don't want to extend any ranges - we just wanted to place memory to the end
of address space and be able to work with.
It is, as long as we use address ranges. Either we can express length
of zero or include the last address.
It is limitation which should be fixed somehow.
And I would expect that PFN_XX(base + size) will be in u32 range.
Probably the best solution will be to use PFN macro in one place and
do not covert addresses in common code.
+ change parameters in bootmem code because some arch do
free_bootmem_node(..., PFN_PHYS(), ...)
and
reserve_bootmem_node(..., PFN_PHYS(), ...)
So now we're talking about a lot of code just for ONE page and
regardless of the representation in the memblock or other memory
management code, I think trying to use that page is fundamentally a
bad idea. There are a lot of places in the kernel where phys_addr_t
is used.
I haven't said to replace phys_addr_t!
My point was something like this (just as example on parisc and free_bootmem_node).
The problematic part is kmemleak code which could be good reason not to change it.
Thanks,
Michal
diff --git a/arch/parisc/mm/init.c b/arch/parisc/mm/init.c
index 82f364e..b83ee32 100644
--- a/arch/parisc/mm/init.c
+++ b/arch/parisc/mm/init.c
@@ -291,8 +291,8 @@ static void __init setup_bootmem(void)
start_pfn,
(start_pfn + npages) );
free_bootmem_node(NODE_DATA(i),
- (start_pfn << PAGE_SHIFT),
- (npages << PAGE_SHIFT) );
+ start_pfn,
+ npages);
bootmap_pfn += (bootmap_size + PAGE_SIZE - 1) >> PAGE_SHIFT;
if ((start_pfn + npages) > max_pfn)
max_pfn = start_pfn + npages;
diff --git a/mm/bootmem.c b/mm/bootmem.c
index 45a691a..dfbfc47 100644
--- a/mm/bootmem.c
+++ b/mm/bootmem.c
@@ -363,17 +363,12 @@ static int __init mark_bootmem(unsigned long start, unsigned long end,
*
* The range must reside completely on the specified node.
*/
-void __init free_bootmem_node(pg_data_t *pgdat, unsigned long physaddr,
- unsigned long size)
+void __init free_bootmem_node(pg_data_t *pgdat, unsigned long startpfn,
+ unsigned long endpfn)
{
- unsigned long start, end;
-
- kmemleak_free_part(__va(physaddr), size);
+ kmemleak_free_part(__va(startpfn << PAGE_SHIFT), (endpfn - startpfn) << PAGE_SHIFT);
- start = PFN_UP(physaddr);
- end = PFN_DOWN((u64)physaddr + (u64)size);
-
- mark_bootmem_node(pgdat->bdata, start, end, 0, 0);
+ mark_bootmem_node(pgdat->bdata, startpfn, endpfn, 0, 0);
}
--
Michal Simek, Ing. (M.Eng)
w: www.monstr.eu p: +42-0-721842854
Maintainer of Linux kernel 2.6 Microblaze Linux - http://www.monstr.eu/fdt/
Microblaze U-BOOT custodian
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