Re: [PATCH] x86-64: improve e820_search_gap()

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Thu Mar 12 2009 - 07:03:19 EST



* Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Blindly putting the gap close after max_pfn might be fine for native
> (though even there I'm uncertain regarding memory hotplug), but will
> certainly present a problem on Xen. And properly searching for a gap
> above 4Gb shouldn't hurt native.
>
> Also, make the function static to ensure there are no other users that
> could depend on the previous behavior regarding the way start_addr gets
> specified.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> ---
> arch/x86/include/asm/e820.h | 2 --
> arch/x86/kernel/e820.c | 11 +++++++++--
> 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> --- linux-2.6.29-rc7/arch/x86/include/asm/e820.h 2009-03-11 17:52:10.000000000 +0100
> +++ 2.6.29-rc7-x86_64-e820-setup-gap-64bit/arch/x86/include/asm/e820.h 2009-03-06 11:25:35.000000000 +0100
> @@ -79,8 +79,6 @@ extern u64 e820_remove_range(u64 start,
> int checktype);
> extern void update_e820(void);
> extern void e820_setup_gap(void);
> -extern int e820_search_gap(unsigned long *gapstart, unsigned long *gapsize,
> - unsigned long start_addr, unsigned long long end_addr);
> struct setup_data;
> extern void parse_e820_ext(struct setup_data *data, unsigned long pa_data);
>
> --- linux-2.6.29-rc7/arch/x86/kernel/e820.c 2009-03-11 17:52:10.000000000 +0100
> +++ 2.6.29-rc7-x86_64-e820-setup-gap-64bit/arch/x86/kernel/e820.c 2009-03-06 11:24:34.000000000 +0100
> @@ -533,13 +533,19 @@ static void __init update_e820_saved(voi
> /*
> * Search for a gap in the e820 memory space from start_addr to end_addr.
> */
> -__init int e820_search_gap(unsigned long *gapstart, unsigned long *gapsize,
> +static int __init
> +e820_search_gap(unsigned long *gapstart, unsigned long *gapsize,
> unsigned long start_addr, unsigned long long end_addr)
> {
> unsigned long long last;
> int i = e820.nr_map;
> int found = 0;
>
> +#ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
> + if (start_addr >= MAX_GAP_END)
> + last = end_addr ?: (1UL << boot_cpu_data.x86_phys_bits);
> + else
> +#endif
> last = (end_addr && end_addr < MAX_GAP_END) ? end_addr : MAX_GAP_END;

hm, this #ifdef block looks quite ugly and should be cleaned up.
x86_phys_bits could be filled in on 32-bit too - and on 32-bit
start_addr cannot be larger than 4GB anyway.

> while (--i >= 0) {
> @@ -585,11 +591,12 @@ __init void e820_setup_gap(void)
>
> #ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
> if (!found) {
> - gapstart = (max_pfn << PAGE_SHIFT) + 1024*1024;
> printk(KERN_ERR "PCI: Warning: Cannot find a gap in the 32bit "
> "address range\n"
> KERN_ERR "PCI: Unassigned devices with 32bit resource "
> "registers may break!\n");
> + found = e820_search_gap(&gapstart, &gapsize, MAX_GAP_END, 0);
> + BUG_ON(!found);

that BUG_ON() will be hard to debug - please use a WARN_ON
instead.

Ingo
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