On Tue, Apr 10, 2018 at 09:44:16PM +0800, Baoquan He wrote: >Hi Rob, > >Thanks a lot for looking into this and involve Nico to this thread! > >On 04/09/18 at 09:49am, Rob Herring wrote: >> +Nico who has been working on tinification of the kernel. >> >> On Mon, Apr 9, 2018 at 4:08 AM, Baoquan He <bhe@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > The struct resource uses singly linked list to link siblings. It's not >> > easy to do reverse iteration on sibling list. So replace it with list_head. >> >> Why is reverse iteration needed? > >This is the explanation I made when Andrew helped to review the v1 post: >https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/3/23/78 > >Because we have been using kexec-tools utility to search available >System RAM space for loading kernel/initrd/purgatory from top to down. >That is done in user space by searching /proc/iomem. While later added >kexec_file interface, the searching code happened in kernel, and it >only search System RAM region bottom up, then take an area in that found >RAM region from top to down. We need unify these two interfaces on >behaviour since they are the same on essense from the users' point of >view, though implementation is different. As you know, the singly linked >list implementation of the current resource's sibling linking, makes the >searching from top to down very hard to satisfy people. > >Below is the v1 post, we make an temporary array to copy iomem_resource's >first level of children, then iterate the array reversedly. Andrew >suggested me to try list_head after reviewing. In fact we can optimize >that patch to only copy resource pointer into array, still the way is >ugly. >https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/3/21/952 > >Then Wei pasted a patch he had made as below. He didn't mention if he >also has requirement on reversed iteration of resource. That is an O(n*n) >way, from personal feelings, hard to say if it's bettern than v1 post. >https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/3/24/157 I don't have requirement on reverse iteration of resource structure. My approach is almost the same as current walk_system_ram_res(). Since each resource keeps parent, we could get previous resource by search on res->parent->child. The complexity of a whole iteration is O(N * W / 2), where N is the number of resources in the tree and W is the average number of siblings of each resource. And this approach doesn't need to change current structure. > >That's why I would like to have a try of the list_head linking. > -- Wei Yang Help you, Help me
