Re: [PATCH 08/35] x86,lmb: Add lmb_reserve_area/lmb_free_area

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt]

On Thu, 2010-05-13 at 17:19 -0700, Yinghai Lu wrote:

>  #endif
> diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/lmb.c b/arch/x86/mm/lmb.c
> index 37a05e2..0dbe05b 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/mm/lmb.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/mm/lmb.c
> @@ -117,3 +117,30 @@ void __init lmb_to_bootmem(u64 start, u64 end)
>  	lmb.reserved.cnt = 0;
>  }
>  #endif
> +
> +void __init lmb_add_memory(u64 start, u64 end)
> +{
> +	lmb_add_region(&lmb.memory, start, end - start);
> +}

I completely fail the point of doing such a minor argument conversion
as an exported function, with a naming that would cause certain
confusion with the existing lmb_add().

In any case, the above should be done at the call sites. Just call
lmb_add(start, end-start). You also aren't consistent since you do the
similar conversion using the _area suffix below, but not above.

> +void __init lmb_reserve_area(u64 start, u64 end, char *name)
> +{
> +	if (start == end)
> +		return;
> +
> +	if (WARN_ONCE(start > end, "lmb_reserve_area: wrong range [%#llx, %#llx]\n", start, end))
> +		return;
> +
> +	lmb_add_region(&lmb.reserved, start, end - start);
> +}

You seem to be fond of gratuituous bloat... 

> +void __init lmb_free_area(u64 start, u64 end)
> +{
> +	if (start == end)
> +		return;
> +
> +	if (WARN_ONCE(start > end, "lmb_free_area: wrong range [%#llx, %#llx]\n", start, end))
> +		return;
> +
> +	lmb_free(start, end - start);
> +}

And here again.

If you -really- think there's value in the prototype conversions, then
make those _area() variants static inlines, group the well together in
the .h with a clear explanation saying something like "it's more
practical for some arch to use start/end rather than start/size".

I personally don't see why you are doing that tho.

Cheers,
Ben.


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