Re: [PATCH 1/2 v7] resource: add the new I/O resource descriptor 'IORES_DESC_RESERVED'

[lijiang]

å 2018å11æ22æ 15:42, Dave Young åé:
> On 11/15/18 at 05:55pm, Lianbo Jiang wrote:
>> The upstream kernel can not accurately add the e820 reserved type to
>> kdump krenel e820 table.
>>
>> Kdump uses walk_iomem_res_desc() to iterate io resources, then adds
>> the matched resource ranges to the e820 table for kdump kernel. But,
>> when convert the e820 type into the iores descriptor, several e820
>> types are converted to 'IORES_DESC_NONE' in this function e820_type
>> _to_iores_desc(). So the walk_iomem_res_desc() will get unnecessary
>> types(such as E820_TYPE_RAM/E820_TYPE_UNUSABLE/E820_TYPE_KERN) when
>> walk through io resources by the descriptor 'IORES_DESC_NONE'.
>>
>> This patch adds the new I/O resource descriptor 'IORES_DESC_RESERVED'
>> for the iomem resources search interfaces. It is helpful to exactly
>> match the reserved resource ranges when walking through iomem resources.
>>
>> Suggested-by: Dave Young <dyoung@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> Signed-off-by: Lianbo Jiang <lijiang@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> Changes since v5:
>> 1. Improve the patch log
>>
>> Changes since v6:
>> 1. Modify this patch, and add the new I/O resource descriptor
>>    'IORES_DESC_RESERVED' for the iomem resources search interfaces.
>> 2. Improve patch log.
>>
>>  arch/x86/kernel/e820.c | 2 +-
>>  include/linux/ioport.h | 1 +
>>  2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/e820.c b/arch/x86/kernel/e820.c
>> index 50895c2f937d..57fafdafb860 100644
>> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/e820.c
>> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/e820.c
>> @@ -1048,10 +1048,10 @@ static unsigned long __init e820_type_to_iores_desc(struct e820_entry *entry)
>>  	case E820_TYPE_NVS:		return IORES_DESC_ACPI_NV_STORAGE;
>>  	case E820_TYPE_PMEM:		return IORES_DESC_PERSISTENT_MEMORY;
>>  	case E820_TYPE_PRAM:		return IORES_DESC_PERSISTENT_MEMORY_LEGACY;
>> +	case E820_TYPE_RESERVED:	return IORES_DESC_RESERVED;
>>  	case E820_TYPE_RESERVED_KERN:	/* Fall-through: */
>>  	case E820_TYPE_RAM:		/* Fall-through: */
>>  	case E820_TYPE_UNUSABLE:	/* Fall-through: */
>> -	case E820_TYPE_RESERVED:	/* Fall-through: */
>>  	default:			return IORES_DESC_NONE;
>>  	}
>>  }
>> diff --git a/include/linux/ioport.h b/include/linux/ioport.h
>> index da0ebaec25f0..6ed59de48bd5 100644
>> --- a/include/linux/ioport.h
>> +++ b/include/linux/ioport.h
>> @@ -133,6 +133,7 @@ enum {
>>  	IORES_DESC_PERSISTENT_MEMORY_LEGACY	= 5,
>>  	IORES_DESC_DEVICE_PRIVATE_MEMORY	= 6,
>>  	IORES_DESC_DEVICE_PUBLIC_MEMORY		= 7,
>> +	IORES_DESC_RESERVED			= 8,
>>  };
> 
> There more works for a new iores desc. Originally IORES_DESC_NONE
> is assumed to include reserved e820 type so all code path relates to
> IORES_DESC_NONE should be carefully checked and ensure they still work after
> your changes.
> 

Thanks for your reminder.

I'm checking it, and also will resend v7 later. Please ignore this patch.

Regards,
Lianbo

>>  
>>  /* helpers to define resources */
>> -- 
>> 2.17.1
>>
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> Thanks
> Dave
>