(2012/12/24 21:09), Tang Chen wrote:
> From: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> When (hot)adding memory into system, /sys/firmware/memmap/X/{end, start, type}
> sysfs files are created. But there is no code to remove these files. The patch
> implements the function to remove them.
>
> Note: The code does not free firmware_map_entry which is allocated by bootmem.
> So the patch makes memory leak. But I think the memory leak size is
> very samll. And it does not affect the system.
>
> Signed-off-by: Wen Congyang <wency@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/firmware/memmap.c | 98 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
> include/linux/firmware-map.h | 6 +++
> mm/memory_hotplug.c | 5 ++-
> 3 files changed, 106 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/firmware/memmap.c b/drivers/firmware/memmap.c
> index 90723e6..49be12a 100644
> --- a/drivers/firmware/memmap.c
> +++ b/drivers/firmware/memmap.c
> @@ -21,6 +21,7 @@
> #include <linux/types.h>
> #include <linux/bootmem.h>
> #include <linux/slab.h>
> +#include <linux/mm.h>
>
> /*
> * Data types ------------------------------------------------------------------
> @@ -41,6 +42,7 @@ struct firmware_map_entry {
> const char *type; /* type of the memory range */
> struct list_head list; /* entry for the linked list */
> struct kobject kobj; /* kobject for each entry */
> + unsigned int bootmem:1; /* allocated from bootmem */
> };
Can't we detect from which the object is allocated from, slab or bootmem ?
Hm, for example,
PageReserved(virt_to_page(address_of_obj)) ?
PageSlab(virt_to_page(address_of_obj)) ?
Thanks,
-Kame
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