[PATCH] x86: fix sorting of mtrr after subtracting

From: Yinghai Lu
Date: Tue Nov 24 2009 - 05:48:17 EST



some case: after subracting, could have more entries

also when we got bland entries in middles, we need compress them before sorting.

introducing clean_sort_range to to compress and sort

Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@xxxxxxxxxx>

---
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mtrr/cleanup.c | 49 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------
1 file changed, 40 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

Index: linux-2.6/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mtrr/cleanup.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mtrr/cleanup.c
+++ linux-2.6/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mtrr/cleanup.c
@@ -170,6 +170,41 @@ static int __init cmp_range(const void *
return start1 - start2;
}

+static int __init clean_sort_range(struct res_range *range, int az)
+{
+ int i, j, k = az - 1, nr_range = 0;
+
+ for (i = 0; i < k; i++) {
+ if (range[i].end)
+ continue;
+ for (j = k; j > i; j--) {
+ if (range[j].end) {
+ k = j;
+ break;
+ }
+ }
+ if (j == i)
+ break;
+ range[i].start = range[k].start;
+ range[i].end = range[k].end;
+ range[k].start = 0;
+ range[k].end = 0;
+ k--;
+ }
+ /* count it */
+ for (i = 0; i < az; i++) {
+ if (!range[i].end) {
+ nr_range = i;
+ break;
+ }
+ }
+
+ /* sort them */
+ sort(range, nr_range, sizeof(struct res_range), cmp_range, NULL);
+
+ return nr_range;
+}
+
#define BIOS_BUG_MSG KERN_WARNING \
"WARNING: BIOS bug: VAR MTRR %d contains strange UC entry under 1M, check with your system vendor!\n"

@@ -223,22 +258,18 @@ x86_get_mtrr_mem_range(struct res_range
subtract_range(range, extra_remove_base,
extra_remove_base + extra_remove_size - 1);

- /* get new range num */
- nr_range = 0;
- for (i = 0; i < RANGE_NUM; i++) {
- if (!range[i].end)
- continue;
- nr_range++;
- }
if (debug_print) {
printk(KERN_DEBUG "After UC checking\n");
- for (i = 0; i < nr_range; i++)
+ for (i = 0; i < RANGE_NUM; i++) {
+ if (!range[i].end)
+ continue;
printk(KERN_DEBUG "MTRR MAP PFN: %016lx - %016lx\n",
range[i].start, range[i].end + 1);
+ }
}

/* sort the ranges */
- sort(range, nr_range, sizeof(struct res_range), cmp_range, NULL);
+ nr_range = clean_sort_range(range, RANGE_NUM);
if (debug_print) {
printk(KERN_DEBUG "After sorting\n");
for (i = 0; i < nr_range; i++)
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